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Lines below their target margin
Active products earning less than they are meant to, ranked by how much they sell, so the costly ones surface first.
A cost price creeps up, the retail stays where it was, and a line that used to earn its margin quietly stops, often unnoticed until the month closes. This workflow flags margin leakage on live-selling products early, while there is still time to act on it.
Margin rarely falls in one visible step. A supplier cost edges up, a promotion runs long, a retail is set once and forgotten, and the erosion only shows up weeks later in an end-of-month report, after the sales have already happened at the wrong margin.
Checking it by hand means pulling cost and retail for hundreds of active lines and comparing them to target, which is why it tends to wait for the monthly cycle.
Retail+ holds cost, retail and margin live. Leakage on a line that is selling right now becomes visible while there is still time to reprice or renegotiate.
Active products earning less than they are meant to, ranked by how much they sell, so the costly ones surface first.
A line trading as usual but at a thinner margin than it held recently, a sign a cost has moved.
Lines that only clear their margin while on deal, worth a pricing or ranging look.
In Retail+, view active products against target margin, live from the tills, so the lines losing margin now are in front of you. As tapestry's signal engine rolls out, Retail+ will surface these lines automatically; today this is a check you run in the analytics.
Compare current margin to the line's recent trend and to its target, to separate a genuine cost-price leak from a planned promotion or a one-off.
Put the margin questions to Hank in plain English and the answer comes straight back, drawn from your own POS.
Illustrative of what you can ask once your data is connected.
Where a cost has moved, raise the fix as a task, reprice, renegotiate or review the range, with an owner and a due time.
Re-check the same lines after the change to confirm the margin has recovered.
A live view, ranked by impact.
On steady sellers, before month-end.
A read on which lines only earn their margin on promotion.
Repricing and renegotiation raised with owners and completion tracking.
Margin leakage surfaces at month-end, weeks after a cost moved, and the sales have already happened at the wrong margin. Checking sooner means a manual pull nobody has time for.
Leakage on a live-selling line is visible the same week, and the fix is a tracked task. Margin is protected while it can still be protected.
The tapestry® Economic Impact Report models a conservative A$27.5k of net value per store per year, a central estimate of A$85.7k, and up to A$181.4k at the top of the modelled range, on a A$30m store. Modelled scenario only. Individual results may vary.
Run the 4-week free trial on your own POS data and catch the margin leaking before month-end does. No setup fees.