What do the columns in the "Categories" report correspond to?

Columns in the Categories report.

Shop name

Name of the shop where the order was placed.

Category name (Category)

The product’s current default category. Other associated categories are not used for this grouping. See the category filter.

Total quantity sold (Product total quantity)

Quantity of products in this category sold during the selected period.

Please note: a product is only considered to belong to a category if it has this category as its default category.

Discount total excl. VAT (negative value) (Total discounts no tax)

Total amount of discounts applied using voucher code(s) (cart rules), on products in this category.

Please note: this column only calculates discounts resulting from voucher codes (cart rules). Discounts due to specific prices are not taken into account here.

Total VAT on discounts (negative value) (Discounts tax amount)

Total VAT associated with the total amount of discounts (cart rules), and which will therefore not be collected and paid to the government.

Product total excl. VAT (Product total no tax)

Total amount of products in the category sold over the selected period, excluding VAT.

If a specific price was applied when the order was placed, it is taken into account. In this sum we also take the eco-tax into account, if a product in the category is concerned, excluding VAT.

Ecotax total excl. VAT (Ecotax no tax)

Sum of the amounts corresponding to the eco-tax, for the relevant products in the category, excluding VAT. As a reminder, this total is already included in the Product total excl. VAT. This column is useful for your eco-tax declaration forms.

Total of product cost prices (Product total costs)

Sum of quantities multiplied by costs stored in the module’s tables. Importing those costs depends on available data and settings.

To choose the purchase costs used in the calculations, see the guide to purchase costs for orders placed before installation.

Gross profits (Product gross profit)

These are the profits on the category, before taking into account discounts (voucher codes):

Gross margin (Product gross margin)

It's a percentage. It is the proportion of gross profits on the category in relation to the total amount of the products of the category:

Net profits (Product net profit)

These are the profits on the category, taking into account discounts (voucher codes). Unlike net profits calculated on an order (as in the basic and full reports), net profits on a category do not take wrapping costs into account:

Net margin (Product net margin)

Net profits are expressed as a percentage of product revenue excluding tax, before cart-rule discounts: (product total excluding tax − cost − absolute discounts excluding tax) ÷ product total excluding tax × 100.

% of total sales (Percent total sales)

This column shows how much sales of the category's products represent of total sales for the selected period:

Cumulative % of total sales (Total sales cumulative)

We add up the % of total sales for each category as we go down the column.

Example:

We export a category report and we position ourselves on the "Art" category. If we add up the percentage of total sales for the first 5 categories, we find a cumulative percentage of total sales of 25,54%, which means that the first 5 categories alone account for almost a quarter of total sales for the selected period (25.54%):

% of total gross profits (Percent total gross profits)

This column shows the proportion of gross profits generated by the category in relation to total gross profits generated over the selected period:

Cumulative % of total gross profits (Total gross profits cumulative)

We add up the % of total gross profits for each category as we go down the column.

Example:

We export a category report and we position ourselves on the "Art" category. If we add up the percentage of total gross profits for the first 5 categories, we find a cumulative percentage of total gross profits of 26,41%, which means that the first 5 categories alone account for just over a quarter of gross profits over the selected period (26.41%):

% of total net profits (Percent total net profits)

This column shows the proportion of net profits generated by the category in relation to total net profits generated over the selected period:

Cumulative % of total net profits (Total net profits cumulative)

We add up the % of total net profits for each category as we go down the column.

Example:

We export a category report and we position ourselves on the "Art" category. If we add up the percentage of total net profits for the first 5 categories, we find a cumulative percentage of total net profits of 26,59%, which means that the first 5 categories alone account for just over a quarter of net profits over the selected period (26.59%):

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