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Inside LeBrands.Store3 min read

Run offers with a clearer view of product costs on LeBrands.Store

Discounts and costs answer different questions. Offers determine which eligible saving a shopper receives; COGS helps an authorised merchant understand the cost of the item being sold. LeBrands.Store gives them separate places in the dashboard rather than treating every commercial decision as a catalogue edit.

By LeBrands.Store editorial team

An offer ticket and final-total receipt beside a separate locked product-cost ledger

Key takeaways

  • Use Offers for promotions and Catalogue > COGS for private product costs.
  • Review eligible savings against the final payable amount, not the headline percentage.
  • Keep historical order allocations and financial evidence separate from later edits.

Use the right workspace for each decision

Offers sits outside Catalogue because a promotion can apply to a product, a collection or an order rather than only to one item record. COGS belongs inside Catalogue because the merchant starts with an existing product and records its cost. These are related commercial tasks, but they do not share the same customer-facing effect.

The dashboard's ticket-style treatment makes the commercial controls recognisable without changing their authority. A visual offer card does not by itself make a discount active, and a private cost figure is not a second public price. Review the saved settings and the available action rather than inferring behaviour from the presentation.

Define an offer with an explicit scope and method

Supported offers include percentage and fixed-amount savings, with eligible product, collection or order scopes. The creation flow distinguishes a code customers enter from an automatically considered offer. Review the required scope, active dates and applicable minimums or usage conditions in the saved record.

Use a name that helps the team understand the campaign without overstating what a customer receives. A code such as SAVE100 is only a label; the configured value and eligibility determine its effect. A fixed-amount discount, a percentage reduction and an automatic offer should not be described as interchangeable mechanisms.

Inspect the final total and the rejection message

The checkout evaluates eligible offers against the best final payable result rather than relying only on the largest advertised percentage. The shopper should see the saving reflected in the breakdown. Do not promise that every offer stacks with every other offer; the checkout's supported combination rules decide what can apply.

When a code is rejected, check whether it is actually a code-based offer, whether the selected items qualify and whether its conditions are satisfied. An automatic offer can already be providing a saving while a separately entered code is invalid. Those two states need different explanations and must not be confused.

Record COGS without turning missing data into profit

Owners and admins can open Catalogue's COGS area, select existing products and record optional costs. The product form also provides an optional cost field. A blank entry means the cost is unknown; it must not be treated as a zero-cost item simply to produce a more attractive margin.

Decide what your internal cost figure includes and apply that basis consistently. Product cost alone is not the whole contribution calculation when shipping, payment fees or returns also affect the order. Use the available records with explicit assumptions rather than describing every difference between selling price and COGS as net profit.

Protect the meaning of an earlier sale

An order's discount allocation records what happened when that purchase was accepted. A later offer edit should not reprice that earlier order. The same principle applies to historical cost evidence: updating today's product cost is not permission to rewrite the economics of a past sale.

Before a campaign, review a representative basket, its eligible items, the displayed saving and the final total. Afterward, compare the actual outcomes with the campaign's objective and the costs you know. Useful commercial control comes from consistent records, not from adding more discount labels to the same checkout.

Frequently asked questions

Why is Offers not inside Catalogue?

Offers can target products, collections or whole orders. A separate workspace matches that broader scope, while product costs remain in Catalogue.

Does changing today's COGS rewrite earlier sales?

No. Current cost edits must not retrospectively replace the cost evidence associated with historical sales.