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The service

The Profit Forensics Audit

A remote, software-enabled financial audit of your online store — whatever platform you sell and get paid on. We trace the money, quantify the leaks, and separate what we verified from what we modeled.

What is analyzed

Every place a dollar can disappear

Orders & line items

Every order traced through discounts, taxes, fees, shipping, and product cost to a contribution figure.

Discounts

Discount leakage, stacked codes, and automatic discounts eroding margin on specific SKUs.

Refunds

Refund concentration, possible duplicates, and refund rates by product and reason.

Payouts

Processor payouts reconciled against orders and fees to surface discrepancies.

Product costs & margin

Contribution profit per product using your supplied cost of goods.

Shipping

Charged vs. actual shipping, and the orders where fulfillment quietly loses money.

Inventory

Slow-moving stock tying up cash, and profitable SKUs going out of stock.

App & recurring expenses

Subscription and app costs weighed against the value they return.

Advertising overview

Where ad spend creates revenue but erodes contribution profit.

The Dollar Trail

From gross sales to contribution profit

The audit follows your revenue down each step of the trail so you can see exactly where it thins out — and which step to fix first.

The Dollar TrailSynthetic example
  1. Gross sales$420,000
  2. Discounts9.1% of gross−$38,400
  3. Refunds5.4% of gross−$22,600
  4. Net sales$359,000
  5. Processing & app fees−$14,800
  6. Shipping (net of charged)−$19,300
  7. Product costs (COGS)−$201,500
  8. Contribution profit
    $123,400

Illustrative figures. Your report separates verified amounts from modeled estimates.

Estimate it yourself

A quick, illustrative leak estimate

Enter a few rough figures for an interactive illustration. It is not a real finding — the audit replaces these generic assumptions with your store's actual data.

Mini profit-leak estimator

Illustrative estimate

Enter a few rough figures to see a conservative illustration of where profit can leak. This is based only on the numbers you type and generic assumptions — it is not a real finding, not a verified result, and not based on any data from your store.

A rough monthly average is fine.

6%
10%

Illustrative monthly leakage to investigate

$700

≈ 1.4% of revenue · roughly $8,400 / year

Refund-related leakage
$150

5% of $3,000 refunded — e.g. duplicate refunds, unreclaimed fees, preventable returns

Discount-related leakage
$400

8% of $5,000 in discounts — e.g. stacked or automatic codes eroding margin

Fees & payout discrepancies
$150

0.3% of $50,000 revenue — typical untracked fee & payout differences

How this is calculated: each line multiplies a figure you entered by the conservative percentage shown beside it, then adds the results. The assumptions are generic industry-style placeholders, not measurements of your store. This estimate is illustrative only — it is not a promise, not a verified result, and not a real audit finding. A real audit replaces these assumptions with your actual data and separates verified figures from modeled ones.

Request your profit audit →Get the data-backed version built on your real store.

The exchange

What you provide, what we collect, what you receive

What the merchant provides

  • Your own data exports, or approval of a scoped, read-oriented access request
  • A short cost questionnaire (COGS, recurring expenses, shipping arrangements)
  • Context on your primary financial concern and the period to review
  • Confirmation of figures we flag for your review

What Chase collects

  • Order, discount, refund, fee, shipping, payout, inventory, and product data you provide or share through scoped access
  • Cost figures you provide that your platform does not store
  • No store changes during a standard audit

What the client receives

  • A detailed written report with prioritized findings
  • An evidence appendix supporting each finding
  • The Dollar Trail for your store
  • A recorded walkthrough you can keep and share with your team

Verified vs. modeled

We label our confidence, every time

You always know whether a number is confirmed against records or estimated from your costs.

Verified
Confirmed against source records such as payout statements. The difference is documented, not estimated.
Modeled
Calculated from your costs and order data — an evidence-based estimate, clearly labeled as modeled.

Boundaries

What is never requested

If anyone asks you for these in our name, it isn’t us.

  • Your password for any platform
  • Two-factor authentication codes
  • Session cookies
  • Private API credentials
  • Customer payment information

Find out where your money went.

Request a profit audit and get a quantified, evidence-backed view of your store’s leaks — with the highest-impact fixes first.

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