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Lesson 7

How to enter operating expenses

Analytics · lesson 7 of 8 · 1:39Date: 28.08.2026By the Robohub teamVideo in Uzbek

Enter and configure your business’s operating expenses to see your real profit.

What is it?

Operating expenses are the money you spend every month to run your business beyond product cost price and marketplace commissions: tax rate, fixed monthly taxes, staff salaries and the average cost per product.

Why does it matter?

If these expenses aren’t accounted for, your profit looks bigger than it really is. Once you enter them in Robohub, margin and ROI are calculated from real numbers — and it becomes clear which products actually make a profit.

In the video

Tax rate
Fixed monthly taxes
Average cost per product
Monthly staff costs
More accurate margin and ROI calculations

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Frequently asked questions

Before you start using analytics — it’s the very first step. To calculate profit, Robohub subtracts all expenses from sales revenue: if cost price or operating expenses are missing, profit, margin and ROI will come out much higher than they really are.

The order is simple: first enter each product’s cost price or upload it as a list (lesson 8), then set up operating expenses such as the tax rate, monthly taxes and staff salaries (lesson 7). After that, every report shows real numbers.

Both group your products, but they answer different questions. ABC asks “how much does this product contribute to the business?”: group A drives the bulk of your results, B is average, and C has a small share (lesson 4). XYZ asks “how stable is demand for this product?”: X sells steadily, Y fluctuates, and Z is unstable and hard to forecast (lesson 5).

Combine the two and you get 9 groups, from AX to CZ, which makes it easy to take a clear decision for each one: for example, an AX product should always be kept in stock, while you shouldn’t tie up extra money in CZ (lesson 6).

Robohub shows all the main sales-related expenses in one place: operating expenses, marketplace commissions, logistics, advertising, storage, penalties and other costs.

You also see each expense’s share of total spending — so you immediately know where most of your money goes and can start cutting costs exactly there (lesson 2).

Yes. Alongside total sales, the Dashboard shows each marketplace’s results separately, so you can compare them side by side.

Pick a period and see on which marketplace sales are growing and where they’re declining — this helps you decide where to direct more advertising and stock (lesson 1).

There are two tools for this. The TOP products section shows the SKUs that sell the most and bring in the most orders, as well as the slow movers (lesson 3).

ABC analysis shows each product’s contribution to your overall results — together with GMV, margin and expenses (lesson 4). To see accurate profit, cost price must be entered (lesson 8).

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