Aura has two cost input fields for each listing:
Buy cost: what you paid for each unit
Additional costs: anything else (per unit) you want Aura to factor in
What are Additional Costs?
Additional Costs is a dedicated field where you can add any expenses beyond your purchase price, such as:
Prep fees
Labeling or packaging
Any other costs you want to factor into your profitability
Buy Cost vs. Additional Costs
Buy Cost is what you paid to acquire the item (your purchase price).
Additional Costs are all other expenses associated with that item.
When you see "Cost" anywhere in Aura—in analytics, pricing calculations, or reports—it represents the total: Buy Cost + Additional Costs.
How to add Additional Costs
Manually:
Open any listing
Find the "Additional Costs" field
Enter the total amount of extra expenses
In bulk via Uploads: Use our Uploads feature to update Additional Costs for multiple listings at once.
Via API: Update Additional Costs programmatically through our external API.
How integrations work with Additional Costs
Your integrations will continue to sync and update your Buy Cost automatically—but they will never touch your Additional Costs field.
This means you can:
Use integrations without worrying about your cost data being overwritten
Manually track prep fees and other expenses that your integration software doesn't know about
Get accurate profitability calculations that include all your real costs
Pricing and analytics
Once you add Additional Costs to a listing, Aura automatically factors them into:
Minimum and maximum pricing calculations
Profit analytics
All reports where "Cost" is displayed
You don't need to do anything extra—Aura handles it automatically.