📣 COGS Update – What You Need to Know
You spoke, we listened — and we've made important changes to how your Cost of Goods (COGS) is collected, displayed, and managed to improve accuracy and ensure gold-standard compliance.
🔄 What’s Changing (Effective April 2025)
We’ve upgraded the system to make managing your COGS more flexible and user-friendly:
đź—‚ Simplified Tabs
We’ve streamlined your view to just two key tabs:
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COGS – Displays all costs imported or manually entered.
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Needs Attention – Flags items where cost has been estimated using sales price (or needs review).
đź“… Per-Month Cost Tracking
Introducing a Date Range / Per Month feature:
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You can now assign different COGS values for the same ASIN across different months.
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Cost data can be filtered by month and easily exported/updated in bulk.
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Simply update prices in the exported file and re-upload—no template required.
📤 Simplified Import & Export
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Export only the data you filter—update prices and re-import directly.
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The AVASK COGS Template has been updated to support multiple entries for different months on a single spreadsheet.
đź“Ą Cost Defaults When Data is Missing
If an ASIN has no cost data:
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We'll first check for the last user entry for that ASIN.
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If none exists, we’ll use the sales price from the Amazon VAT Transaction Report (AVTR) for that month.
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These entries will appear in the Needs Attention tab for your review.
⚡ Improved Speed & Performance
We’ve made backend improvements for faster upload and download processing.
🔍 Smarter Search
Find what you need faster with keyword search by ASIN or product description.
đź“ť Prefer Manual Entry?
No problem—manually enter COGS anytime via the Add Cost of Goods tab.
These changes are designed to boost accuracy, streamline your workflow, and help ensure compliance every step of the way.
Questions? We’re here to help!