ROAS Is Not Profit: Why Ad Reports Can Look Good While Cash Shrinks
Use contribution margin, refunds, inventory, and cash timing to explain why platform ROAS is not profit, with a practical review table for small ecommerce teams.
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Use contribution margin, refunds, inventory, and cash timing to explain why platform ROAS is not profit, with a practical review table for small ecommerce teams.
Use a 90-day cash runway plan to schedule inventory, ad tests, subscriptions, logistics, refunds, and payback before a new store runs out of room.
Use order volume, payment fees, permissions, reporting needs, app cost, and cash runway to decide whether a Shopify plan upgrade is justified.
Use a promotion decision table to compare discount codes, automatic discounts, free shipping, and bundles by AOV, inventory, refunds, and contribution profit.
Before setting price, put COGS, fulfillment, payment fees, discounts, refunds, and ad payback into one cost stack instead of looking only at product cost.
Break down common 2026 startup costs for cross-border ecommerce, including store setup, apps, samples, inventory, ads, compliance, and cash flow.