BREAK-EVEN ACOS CALCULATOR
BREAK-EVEN ACOS Calculator
See the ACoS above which an advertised sale stops making money, including the 16.67 points VAT registration takes off it, with a free calculator and Excel workbook.
Break-Even ACoS Calculator
Break-even ACoS is the advertising cost of sale above which a unit stops making money, however healthy the campaign looks in Seller Central. It is not your gross margin, and on a VAT-registered account it is roughly half what most sellers assume.
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Fill in a selling price to see the answer.
Net revenue after VAT –
Amazon takes –
Contribution before advertising –
Break-even ROAS, the same number inverted–
Most you can pay for a click –
Advertising at your actual ACoS –
Profit per unit after advertising –
Break-even ACoS is simply your contribution as a percentage of the selling price. Nothing else. Comparing an ACoS to your gross margin instead is the mistake that funds a lot of unprofitable advertising.
Take this calculator into Excel
The workbook version runs the same numbers for up to ten ASINs side by side and ranks them by the gap between the ACoS you are running and the ACoS you can afford. A blended target that is right on average is usually wrong on every individual product.
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