So, I know I’m not the brightest crayon in the box when it comes to math .. but looking at 2 very similar sales, only 5 products apart, both priced the same on their respective product pages, yet one customer paid considerably less .. neither product on sale … plus the math does not seem to add up for me .. according to my math, I should have made $38.05746 on the $160.58, and $.45 on the 5% totaling $38.50846 on the one and $25.06275 on the other sale of $105.75 . And why are these 2 sales only 5 cards apart but a difference of $54.83.. thats a huge difference for only a 5 card variance. What am I missing here?
They're both right - it's the extra 5 invitations plus whatever type of paper they chose on that wedding order (see that extra 5% line?)
Birthday Invitation 50% MRF (marketing royalty fee)
For the wedding invitation 50% MRF
plus the 5% on the 9.02 for the wedding order
$17.13+ $0.23 = $17.33
The birthday card sale on 5/4:
They got a 50% discount because that's the bulk discount shown in the drop-down for orders of 75 or more cards.
My calculator depends on using Zazzle's calculator to enter a % to see what the actual resulting product price will be and plugging that price into my sheet. So to show the math comparing this to if you had your royalty at 10% or 25% instead, I'd need to access the royalty calculator on one of my own products published on the same blank you used to see what the product price changes to. I don't have many cards and a quick check, none were published on this _invitation3 blank. But If you download my spreadsheet (free) you can compare different percentages yourself. There's a link to download it in this post.
As for the sale on 5/2 of the wedding _flatcard - when you click through directly from your royalty report, you should be able to see what size, paper type, corner style, etc they went with. Without that info it's impossible to say exactly what went down here. What we do know is -
They paid a total of $169.60 for 80 cards. Assuming the same 50% bulk discount, list price would have been $339.20 ($4.24 per card.) On the birthday card sale, list price would have been $211.50 ($2.82 per card). That's $1.42 per-card difference. But these were different products on different blanks and we don't know what the wedding buyer choose that increased their cost but I suspect they choose a larger size as nothing else really would add up to that price increase.
Congrats on the nice bulk orders BTW 😀👍
* Edited for text formatting fix
