Margins page, 20 ideas

The current page is one chart and a product table. Everything below is buildable from data already in the system: product costs and prices, monthly sales, price history, department targets. Numbers illustrative.

1

Margin health strip

The one-line answer up top: blended margin, how it moved, and how much is at risk.

Blended margin
27.8%
vs last month
+0.4pt
Below target
88 products
Recoverable
€640/mo
2

Margin ladder

Every product placed on rungs: loss makers, thin, healthy, strong. Click a rung to see the products.

Selling at a loss 6
Under 15% 82
15 to 30% 2,140
Over 30% 4,257
3

Money left on the table

Turn margin gaps into euros: what fixing each below-target product is worth per month.

Cola Multipack+€30/mo if repriced
Sharing Crisps 150g+€14/mo
Orange Juice 1L+€12/mo
Top 20 fixes together+€410/mo
4

Department targets scoreboard

Each department against its own target margin, not one flat number for the whole shop.

Confectionery (target 42%)44.1%
Soft Drinks (target 38%)33.2% gap
Dairy (target 22%)23.0%
5

Margin drift alarm

Products whose margin quietly shrank 3 months running, usually a cost creep nobody priced through.

Butter 454g31% → 27% → 24%
Rolls 6pk38% → 35% → 31%
cause: supplier cost up, shelf price unchanged
6

Weighted, not average

Show margin weighted by units sold. A 5% margin on your best seller matters more than 50% on a dust collector.

Simple average margin: 31.2%
Weighted by what actually sells: 24.6%
Your big sellers run thinner than your shelf suggests
7

The 80/20 profit view

How few products earn most of your profit. Focuses attention where it pays.

top 200 products= 78% of profitrest
8

Cost rise inbox

Fed by the invoice scanner: every cost increase that has not been priced through yet.

Ocean Spray 1Lcost +22c, price unchanged
Coffee 12oz cupscost +8c, price unchanged
from scans this month7 waiting
9

Charm price nudges

Products a few cent below a clean shelf price. Tiny moves, pure margin.

Wine Gums 190g€2.41 → €2.49 +€9/mo
Bleach 750ml€1.93 → €1.99 +€5/mo
41 candidates found+€110/mo together
10

Margin map by department

A treemap: box size = revenue, colour = margin health. The big red boxes are the story.

Grocery
Soft Drinks
Dairy
Bakery
Snacks
11

Fix queue

A working to-do list: below-target products ordered by money impact, tick them off as you reprice.

☐ Cola Multipack → €5.49+€30/mo
☐ Energy Drink → €2.09+€26/mo
☑ Sharing Crisps → €2.69done last week
12

Before and after receipts

Each completed reprice tracked: predicted gain vs what actually happened. Builds trust in the numbers.

Sharing Crisps repricepredicted +€14, actual +€16
Orange Juice repricepredicted +€12, actual +€11
13

Supplier margin league

Average margin by supplier. Ammunition for the next negotiation.

Coastal Drinks 36%
Valley Wholesale 31%
Celtic Household 14%
14

VAT band lens

Margins split by VAT band, catches products priced as if they were in the wrong band.

Zero ratedavg margin 29.4%
13.5%avg margin 26.1%
23%avg margin 21.7% check pricing
15

New product watch

Products added in the last 60 days and whether their opening margin landed on target.

Iced Latte Canopened at 38%, on target
Protein Bar Chocopened at 18%, below 35% target
16

Margin by price point

Where thin margins cluster: under €2 impulse lines or big ticket items?

<€1€1-2€2-5€5-10>€10
17

What if, right here

The price slider embedded on every product row. Test a reprice without leaving the page.

COLA MULTIPACK · margin 17.8%
€4.49try €5.49 → 25.3%, can lose 36% of sales€6.49
18

Excluded and why

Fuel, lottery, vouchers shown separately with their fixed commissions, so the shop margin is honest.

Fuelcommission set by supplier
Lotteryfixed 6% commission
excluded from targets, shown for completeness
19

Monthly margin note

Three plain sentences: what improved, what slipped, the single best action this month.

"Blended margin rose to 27.8%, the best since March, mostly from the Soft Drinks reprices. Butter and Rolls are drifting down as supplier costs creep. Best single action: price through the 7 cost rises sitting in your scan inbox, worth about €95 a month."
20

Ask about margins

Pre-filled Ask prompts scoped to margins, straight from this page.

Ask about your margins...
Which department is furthest off target? What did repricing earn me this year?

All numbers illustrative. Ideas 8 and 12 connect to the invoice scanner and the price history work already built. Idea 17 embeds the what-if slider from the price moves feature.