You now know more about your Amazon profitability than most sellers ever will. You understand why the top-line numbers lie, where the real data lives, and how to read both the per-product and the whole-account truth.
But knowledge you have to re-derive every time isn’t a system. The last step is turning everything into a repeatable monthly routine — one you can run in plain English, in a few minutes, without remembering a single table name. That’s what the MCP is for.
The whole course, in three moves
Strip away the detail and the entire course is three steps, in this order:
- COGS in. Make sure your real product costs are entered (top sellers first). Without this, every number downstream is a guess. (Module 1)
- Venue profit — am I profitable? Read the account-level number, monthly, to know if the business as a whole is making money. (Module 5)
- SKU profit — what do I keep, kill, or cuddle? Drop to the per-product view to find the winners and the bleeders, and decide what to do. (Module 4)
That’s the loop. Costs in, zoom out to check the whole, zoom in to act on the parts. Run it every month and you will never again be the seller who shrugs at “did you make money?”
Your copy-paste MCP prompt library
You don’t need to phrase these perfectly. The MCP understands natural language — these are just reliable starting points.
Check your foundation (COGS):
“Rank my top SKUs by last-90-day sales and show each one’s current cost of goods, so I can confirm I’ve entered a real cost for the products that matter most.” (The system can’t tell a real cost from the 25% default — only you can, so use this to spot-check your own coverage.)
Am I profitable? (venue):
“Show me my venue profit by month for the last 6 months.”
What’s working and what isn’t? (SKU):
“Rank my SKUs by profit last month, highest to lowest, and flag any that are losing money.”
Where are the fees going?
“Break down my FBA fulfillment and referral fees by SKU last month, and show my total venue storage fee separately.”
Is my ad spend healthy?
“Show me ACoS and TACoS by SKU last month, and flag any product where ads are bigger than its profit.”
Save the ones that fit how you think. Over time you’ll build your own shorthand.
Build the habit: a monthly profitability review
The single highest-leverage thing you can do with all of this is block 30 minutes once a month and run the loop. Same three moves, same prompts, every month:
- Confirm COGS coverage on your top sellers.
- Read venue profit — is the trend up, flat, or down?
- Scan SKU profit — anything new in the loser column? Any cuddle candidate ready to graduate or get killed?
Pick a consistent day — say, the first Monday after the prior month closes and settles (remember DD7; give the data time to finish landing). Make it a recurring calendar event. The sellers who compound are the ones who look, consistently, not the ones who look hardest once.
Try this in your account — the capstone
Run your first full monthly review right now. One prompt:
“Give me my full monthly profitability review for my main venue: venue profit for the month, my top 5 and bottom 5 SKUs by profit, and my top 10 SKUs by sales with each one’s current cost of goods.”
Read what comes back. The venue line tells you if you made money. The bottom 5 tells you where the leaks are. The top-10 cost list is your COGS spot-check — scan it for any product where the cost looks like a default rather than a number you entered, and clean those up before next month. That single answer — which would have taken hours to assemble by hand a few weeks ago — is now a sentence away, any time you want it.
That’s the whole point of this course. Not to make you a financial analyst, but to make the truth about your business one question away. You’re there.
Part 7 of 7 in Level 1: Understanding Amazon Profitability.
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