Clear answers for profit, privacy and billing.

MarginPatrol is a profit monitoring and alert system for Shopify stores. It helps merchants see operating profit after key variable costs and alerts them when orders, products, discounts, shipping, refunds or ads start eating margin.

Not primarily. MarginPatrol is designed as a daily profit patrol: it shows profit, leaks, reasons, accuracy and what to check first.

Is my store making or losing money today?

MarginPatrol calculates operating profit for daily monitoring: net revenue minus COGS, shipping costs, payment fees, refunds, discounts and ad spend.

No. MarginPatrol calculates operating profit for daily monitoring. It is not accounting, tax, audit or financial advice software.

Shopify reports often focus on sales, payouts or order data. MarginPatrol combines product costs, shipping costs, payment fees, refunds, discounts and ad spend for a different operating-profit purpose.

No. MarginPatrol helps you start with products that generated the most revenue. Adding costs for top products can improve profit accuracy quickly.

Profit readiness is a quality score showing how complete and reliable the data behind your profit number is.

Confirmed means enough data is available. Estimated means part of the calculation uses rules or assumptions. Preliminary means the data may still update.

Excluded means a component is intentionally not included in the calculation, such as taxes in the base v1 operating profit formula.

MarginPatrol can alert for unprofitable orders, low-margin products, ad spend pressure, shipping losses, refund spikes, missing COGS and cases where revenue is up but profit is down.

MarginPatrol groups related issues and prioritizes alerts by financial impact. The goal is fewer, more useful alerts.

No. MarginPatrol shows what to review first. It does not automatically change prices, discounts, shipping rules or ad budgets in v1.

Order-level ad attribution is not enabled by default in v1. Campaign and channel-level profit should be treated as Estimated.

The Shopify app is used for setup. The mobile app is recommended for daily profit control, alerts and summaries.

By default, MarginPatrol uses private push mode and hides sensitive amounts on lock screen notifications and widgets.

Billing for the Shopify app is managed through Shopify billing. Plan details and trial information are shown during setup and on the Billing screen.

By default, MarginPatrol is designed not to need customer names, emails, phone numbers or exact addresses to calculate store profit.

Yes. Data deletion is handled through MarginPatrol's data deletion process and Shopify privacy requirements where applicable.