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How to Get Your Costs Into Aura

Every method to import or manually add buy/additional costs to your listings

Written by Dillon Carter

Aura uses total costs (Buy Costs + Additional Costs) to calculate profit metrics and to set automatic Min/Max prices.

💡 Hint: Aura requires Minimum prices as the lower limit for repricing. This means you also need a cost if you're setting Min prices automatically via your strategy.

Aura will automatically account for your referral and fulfillment fees but any prep, storage, shipping or other fees you take on should be added to the Additional Cost field for Aura to account for them.

Adding Costs automatically and in bulk

1. Integrations with third party tools

Aura can import your Buy Costs from InventoryLab, ScanPower, RestockPro, or Boxem through the Integrations page in Aura. Toggle on the connection in both apps to get started.

See our integration guides here.

2. Using the Uploads feature

Download a template of your listings and enter both Buy Costs (shown as 'costs') and Additional Costs (shown as 'additional_costs') for upload. Follow these steps for a more detailed process:

  1. Navigate to the Uploads section in your Aura account.

  2. Download the prefilled CSV template containing your listings and data.

  3. Open the file in Excel or Google Sheets and update the "cost" column with your desired values. Ensure the values are numeric and do not include currency symbols.

  4. Save the updated file as a CSV.

  5. Re-upload the file to Aura via the Uploads section to apply the changes.

  6. Ensure that column headers, such as "cost," are written in all lowercase letters to avoid upload errors.

We recommend using Uploads if you don't use any tools with an available integration.

After uploading your CSV file, refresh the page to check the upload status. This will display whether the costs have been updated successfully or if there are any errors.

3. Using the Aura API

For advanced users, Aura’s API allows programmatic updates to costs for individual SKUs. Refer to the API documentation for details on cost update endpoints and implementation.

Adding costs manually

You can also update any listing by manually adding and saving Buy Costs and Additional Costs. This happens in two places:

1. Enter costs on the Listings page

Adjust and add values in the Buy Cost or Additional Cost column. Make sure to click the blue save button or press enter on your keyboard to save your changes.

2. Enter costs while viewing a listing

Head to the listing page and click to edit the Buy Cost or Additional Cost fields. Press save or enter to lock in the value.

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