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Shopify income and expenses tracker

Shopify shows you sales. It does not show you profit. Paste five numbers a month, log what you spend, and this tells you what you actually kept, month by month, with the payment fees worked out from your own rates.

Free · .xlsx, 22 KB · Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers, LibreOffice · Updated

Get the spreadsheet

Free. The file downloads straight away and the link is emailed to you as well, so you can find it again on the laptop you actually work on.

.xlsx · 22 KB

What is inside

  • Settings: your plan price, card rate and fixed fee, entered once.
  • Sales: orders, product sales, discounts, refunds and shipping, straight from Shopify Analytics.
  • Expenses: a dated log with a category dropdown, so nothing is forgotten at tax time.
  • Profit and loss: twelve months of gross profit, margin, fees, ads and net profit. All formulas.
  • Year: the totals, the margin, the profit per order and the month that actually paid you.

How to use it

  1. Open it in Excel, or upload it to Google Drive and open it with Google Sheets. Everything survives the trip: formulas, dropdowns and formats.
  2. Fill in the sand-coloured cells. They are the only ones meant for typing; every white cell is a formula that keeps itself correct.
  3. Start with the Settings sheet. The rates there drive every fee calculation in the workbook, and they come from your own account, not from us.
  4. Keep it open at the end of each week. A spreadsheet you update on the day you remember is worth more than a perfect one you fill in once a year.

Why we give it away

We build real business apps with AI tools and publish what they cost down to the cent, and these sheets came out of doing that: they are the ones we keep open ourselves. Giving them away costs us nothing and puts us in front of the people we write for. How we test explains where the numbers in them come from.

Questions

Does it work in Google Sheets?

Yes. Upload the file to Google Drive and open it with Google Sheets: the formulas, the dropdowns and the number formats all carry over. It also opens in Excel, Numbers and LibreOffice.

Where do I find the five sales numbers?

Shopify admin, Analytics, then the Finances summary for the month: orders, gross sales (product sales), discounts, returns and shipping. The tracker does the rest.

Why does it ask for my card rate?

Because Shopify does not publish card processing rates on its pricing page or its Payments page (we checked both on 16 September 2026), and they differ by country. Your own Payments settings show your exact rate, and the tracker uses it for every fee calculation.

Is this accounting software?

No, and it is not tax advice. It is a bookkeeping sheet that tells you whether the store is making money, in a format your accountant can read.

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