Configuration

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Settings are in Add-ons → Manage add-ons → Product Cost & Profit Reports → Settings, on the tabs General, Order costs and License.

General

Setting	Default	Description
Enable	On	Turns the add-on on or off without uninstalling it. When off, the cost fields, snapshots and reports are switched off.
Order statuses that count in reports	Paid, Complete	Only orders in these statuses are included in the profit reports. The order profit panel is shown for every status.
Exclude included taxes from revenue	On	When your prices include tax, the included tax is subtracted from revenue and from the shipping charged, so profit is calculated on net amounts. Off = gross amounts.
Low-margin threshold (%)	15	Margins below this percentage are highlighted in red in the product list, the order list and the reports.
Return statuses that reduce profit	Complete	RMA return requests in these statuses subtract the accepted items from revenue and cost of goods. The list is filled only when the core RMA add-on is installed.
Vendor access to costs and profit	View and edit costs	Multi-Vendor: No access (vendors see nothing), View costs and profit, or View and edit costs (vendors set the cost of their own products). Not shown outside Multi-Vendor.

Order costs

These values are stored with each new order when it is placed; later changes do not alter existing orders.

Setting	Default	Description
Payment fee (% of order total)	0	Your average payment processing fee, subtracted from the profit of each order.
Payment fee (fixed per order)	0	Fixed part of the payment fee, in the primary currency.
Fixed cost per order	0	For example packaging or handling. Subtracted from the profit of each order.

Example: a fee of 2.9 % + 0.30 and a fixed cost of 1.50 on a $100 order subtract $2.90 + $0.30 + $1.50 = $4.70. Real shipping cost and one-off extra costs are entered per order on the order page (see Usage).

License

The license status is shown in a License card at the top of the add-on page, above the tabs, so you see it on every tab. The License tab holds the key itself. The key is stored once for the whole installation.

The License card shows:

• the status in color: green when valid, blue for a development host or the 14-day period before a key is required (with the days left), amber when the license server could not be reached (with the days left) or a Marketplace number is still being verified, red when the add-on is switched off;
• in plain words what the status means and, when the add-on is (or will be) switched off, what stops: profit reports, the CSV export, the order profit panel and the margin columns are hidden; cost prices stay editable and new orders keep receiving their cost snapshot;
• the licensed domain, every storefront with its result (covered, development host, not covered), the end of the updates and support period, the last and the next check, and the key in use (masked);
• the actions Enter license key / Change license key (opens the License tab), Check now (verifies at once and stays on the page), Manage license (your licenses on cs-cart.kaviolabs.com) and, without a valid license, Buy a license.

In Add-ons → Manage add-ons the add-on’s row shows a small license badge next to its name, for example License: Valid or License: Pending · 9 days left.

The Profit reports page show the license status in a bar at the top: a small green chip when the license is valid, or a banner with the status, what is switched off and the same actions as the card. Vendors never see license information.

Setting	Description
License key	Your Kavio Labs license key (KAVIO-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX, from My licenses on cs-cart.kaviolabs.com) or your CS-Cart Marketplace license number. If you entered the Marketplace license number in Add-ons → Manage add-ons (the add-on’s license field), leave this empty: the add-on uses that number.
License status	Points to the License card and explains what the check sends.

What the license covers. A license is bound to the base domain you entered at purchase (for example example.com) and covers every subdomain of it (www.example.com, shop.example.com, staging.example.com). Local development hosts are always allowed: localhost, 127.0.0.1 and other private IP addresses, and host names ending in .localhost, .test, .local, .example or .invalid. A store on a different base domain needs its own license. If you move your store to a new domain, contact support.

When the add-on checks. When you save the key, and then once a day. The check runs only in the admin panel (on a page you open) or from cron, never while customers browse the storefront or place orders, and takes a few seconds at most. A cron job keeps the license verified even when nobody opens the admin panel:

php /path/to/store/admin.php --dispatch=kv_product_cost_profit_license.check

What is sent. The check sends this to https://cs-cart.kaviolabs.com and nothing else: the license key, the add-on ID and version, the host names of your storefronts, your CS-Cart version and edition, and a random one-time value. No customer, vendor, order, product or personal data is sent. The server answers with a digitally signed result, so a forged answer is ignored.

Statuses.

Status (card)	Color	What happens
Valid	Green	The license is valid for this domain. Everything works.
Development host	Blue	The store runs on a local development host, which every license covers. Everything works.
Pending verification	Amber	A CS-Cart Marketplace license number was accepted, but the Marketplace has not confirmed it yet. Everything works.
Pending · N days left	Blue	No verified key yet (a new installation). Everything works for 14 days.
Grace period · N days left	Amber	The last checks failed (for example a network problem). The add-on keeps working for 14 days after the first failed check.
Not activated, Invalid key, Revoked, Domain mismatch, Not verified	Red	Profit reports, the CSV export, the order profit panel and the margin columns are hidden. Cost prices stay editable and new orders keep receiving their cost snapshot, so the history is complete when the license is active again. Your products and the store are not affected. Domain mismatch shows the licensed domain next to the domain your store runs on.

When your updates and support period ends, the add-on keeps working. Only updates and support stop.

License information appears in the admin panel only, and only for administrators who may manage add-ons; vendors and customers never see it. When the add-on is switched off, other admin pages also show a notice once per session with a link to the add-on page; the add-on page and the Profit reports page show the card or the status bar instead.