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Metrics type: Card

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At a glance

Total Cost of Goods Sold posted to G/L COGS accounts (5000 to 5099) over the period. Feeds margin calculation.

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Calculation

Calculated automatically from your Microsoft Dynamics 365 data. See the At a glance summary above for what the metric tracks and the worked example below for a typical reading.

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Worked example

US distributor on BC, 30D 14 Mar to 12 Apr 26: COGS 5.24Mvsprior5.24M vs prior 4.94M (+6.1%). Revenue grew only 3.3%. COGS outpacing revenue indicates margin compression.

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Sibling cards merchants should reference together

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Reconciling against the vendor’s own dashboard

Where to look in Business Central:
Reports > Finance > Income Statement (Cost of Goods Sold line) G/L Register filtered to COGS accounts
Why may differ: Cross-connector reconciliation: No commerce-side counterpart.

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Known limitations / merchant FAQs

Includes inventory write-downs? No, those typically hit dedicated write-down accounts. Item Charges (freight, duty)? Included if allocated to Items via the Item Charge Assignment. Manufacturing variances? Excluded from this card; tracked separately on Landed Cost Variance.

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Tracked live in Vortex IQ Nerve Centre

Total COGS is one of hundreds of KPI pulses Vortex IQ tracks across Microsoft Dynamics 365 and 70+ other ecommerce connectors. Nerve Centre runs the detection layer; Vortex Mind investigates the cause when something moves; Ask Viq lets you interrogate any number in plain English. Start for free or book a demo to see this metric running on your own data.