Baiord's profit is not an estimate. It is one formula over figures eBay gave it and the buying price you entered.
The formula
| Term | What it is |
|---|---|
| Revenue | Item subtotal, plus the postage the buyer paid, less any discount or promotion you gave |
| − eBay fees | Everything eBay charged on the order, including Promoted Listings and postage labels bought through eBay |
| + Fee credits | Fees eBay handed back, normally on a refund |
| − Cost of goods | What you paid your supplier — the number you enter |
| − Postage you paid | Your own label cost, where there is one |
| − Buyer refunds | The gross amount the buyer got back |
| + Supplier recoveries | Money your supplier refunded you against that |
| + Returned stock credited back | The value of a returned unit you put back on the shelf |
Margin is that profit as a percentage of revenue.
Marketplace tax is not deducted
eBay collects and remits sales tax and VAT on your behalf on most sales. That money is never yours, so it is neither revenue nor a cost — deducting it would understate your profit, and counting it as revenue would overstate it. Baiord leaves marketplace-collected tax out of the arithmetic entirely.
Money is never a decimal
Every amount is stored as whole pence or cents with its currency code. Nothing in Baiord ever holds money as a floating-point number, which is why totals add up exactly rather than drifting by a penny over a few thousand orders.
The two conditions for counting
An order only enters a profit figure when both of these are true:
- It has a buying price. Without it there is no cost of goods, and a profit figure that assumed zero cost would be revenue wearing a different name.
- Its eBay fees are known. Either itemised on the sale, or given by eBay as an order total.
An order failing either one is held out of profit rather than counted at a guess. You can see exactly which orders and why on Orders → Outside the figures, and the two states have different fixes:
| State | What to do |
|---|---|
| Awaiting a buying price | Enter its cost and it joins the figures of the month it was placed in. |
| eBay fees not imported | Nothing. Fees are read when eBay books them and are not re-read later, so these figures will not change — see eBay fees. |
Profit status
- Pending — still waiting on a buying price; the figure is provisional
- Adjusted — a refund, return or cancellation changed the outcome
- Realized — costs known, nothing disturbed it
A cancelled order is never pending, because it carries no buying price by design.
When it recalculates
Immediately, after anything that could move a term: a sync bringing in a fee or a refund, a buying price entered, a supplier refund answered, a returned unit put back on the shelf. There is no recalculate button because there is nothing to press.
Profit by product
eBay charges its fees on the order, not the line. So when an order holds several products, Baiord attributes its profit to each by that product's share of the order's revenue. On a single-product order the attribution is exact.