Discount and Promotion Profitability Audit
Check whether a promotion made or lost money.
Added October 15, 2026. Written with AI assistance and checked for clarity and placeholders; not reviewed by a lawyer, accountant, clinician or other professional. How these prompts are made
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Audit a promotion I ran. Normal price and cost per unit: [PRICE_AND_COST]. Promotion terms: [PROMOTION_TERMS]. Sales and units before, during, and after: [SALES_DATA]. Extra costs (advertising, fees, shipping): [EXTRA_COSTS]. Calculate profit per unit at normal and discounted price, total profit before and during the promotion, extra units needed to break even (lost margin divided by new margin), and extra units actually sold, with the arithmetic. Check for pull-forward (a dip after the promotion) and customer mix (new versus existing, if I have it). Provide a verdict of 'made money', 'broke even' or 'lost money' with caveats and a list of data I need to be sure. Suggest a better design for the next promotion. Use only my numbers and label assumptions. Add a worked example: price 50, cost 30, margin 20; 20 percent discount makes price 40 and margin 10; if normal weekly sales are 100 units (profit 2,000), the promotion needs 200 units to match profit (2,000 / 10), so selling 160 loses 400 before extra costs.
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