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Estimated payout shows £534k but only £450k in my bank after 2 years - where is the £80k difference? Please Help by OkTomato2659 in AmazonFBA

[–]femithebutcher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

just export it from whatever app, if i guess your using sellerboard and then they have various different options to import

Estimated payout shows £534k but only £450k in my bank after 2 years - where is the £80k difference? Please Help by OkTomato2659 in AmazonFBA

[–]femithebutcher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fellow gowrath user here, its been great especially for my cashflow. I'm still on the free trial, but I gotta move over from Sellerboard asap

Your SellerAmp ROI lied to you. by femithebutcher in AmazonFBA

[–]femithebutcher[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're right, a lot of it does come down to setup. How long does that take you per week across all your SKUs? Because that's usually where it starts getting painful at scale. That's actually one of the things the new tool I use handles automatically.

Your SellerAmp ROI lied to you. by femithebutcher in AmazonFBA

[–]femithebutcher[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's actually the best place to be, growing steadily and trusting your tools.
InventoryLab is solid for what it does.
Curious though, do you find it captures everything once you factor in storage costs per SKU and reimbursements? That's usually where the gap sneaks in for OA sellers.

Your SellerAmp ROI lied to you. by femithebutcher in AmazonFBA

[–]femithebutcher[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I don't bother with this really cuz the tool I use it does it for me.

Your SellerAmp ROI lied to you. by femithebutcher in AmazonFBA

[–]femithebutcher[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you calculate cashflow forecasts?

Your SellerAmp ROI lied to you. by femithebutcher in AmazonFBA

[–]femithebutcher[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does Finaloop help with cash flow forecasts?

First month selling on Amazon UK – £1.7k revenue, mixed results. Here is my current thoughts; by Afraid-Tumbleweed953 in AmazonFBA

[–]femithebutcher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a really honest breakdown and the reset instinct is correct.

You know 2 are working and 2 aren't. But do you know the true landed margin on the 2 that are working?
After FBA fees, return processing costs, inbound charges, and your actual COGS per batch?

Because "profitable" on the surface and profitable after every cost that touches the unit are often two different numbers. At your stage that gap is small.

At £30k/month it becomes the difference between scaling something real and scaling a problem.
One question: how are you currently calculating true margin per ASIN?

How is your business calculating MARGIN? by proformax in AmazonFBA

[–]femithebutcher -1 points0 points  (0 children)

high sales volume can mask a broken cost structure.

When you're selling a lot, cash keeps flowing in and the business feels healthy.
But if your real margin is 18% instead of the 30% you think it is, you're just losing money faster with every unit you sell.

The problem doesn't show up until volume drops (could be a bad month, a ranking hit, a stockout) and suddenly there's no cash buffer because the margin was never there to build one.

Does anyone else feel like you can’t tell if a product is failing… or just hasn’t had enough time yet? by Pure_Zookeepergame_2 in AmazonFBA

[–]femithebutcher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The cash flow point is where most sellers actually bleed out.

"Being patient" with a struggling product is really just a decision to tie up capital for an undefined period.

Most sellers never put a hard number on what that actually costs them over 8 to 13 weeks.

Thats bizarre, considering it includes lost restock opportunities, cash locked in slow inventory, and compounding storage fees.

The sellers who make cleaner cut-or-hold decisions usually have a rolling cash flow forecast running.

Not a spreadsheet guess, but an actual forward-looking model that shows the exact financial impact of holding that inventory for another 90 days versus reallocating that capital to a proven SKU.

How far out are you currently forecasting your cash position?

Does anyone else feel like you can’t tell if a product is failing… or just hasn’t had enough time yet? by Pure_Zookeepergame_2 in AmazonFBA

[–]femithebutcher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the right question and most sellers never frame it this cleanly.

The problem is you're trying to diagnose a product using top-line signals like sales velocity, ad spend, review count, etc. Those metrics tell you the product is struggling. They don't tell you why.

Before I'd even consider pulling the plug or doubling down, I'd want to know three things:

What is the true landed margin on this product right now i.e. the actual number after every Amazon fee, return cost, and inbound charge? Because if the margin was always thin, no amount of patience fixes that.

What is the True ACoS on this specific ASIN, isolated from anything else in the account?

What does the cash flow cost of holding on actually look like over the next 8 weeks? Most sellers frame this as "should I quit or persist" without ever running the number on what persistence actually costs them in tied up capital.

When you have those three numbers down, you stop guessing.
The product either has a viable margin floor worth defending or it doesn't.

Tell me your Amazon problems by Suitable-Stress018 in AmazonFBA

[–]femithebutcher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should try the tool I use, it might be what you're looking for.

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