Monthly profit goal calculator
How many sales and listings does your profit goal need?
Enter the monthly profit you want, the profit you make per sale, and how many sales 100 live listings give you in a month. The tool works out the sales per month and per day, and the number of live listings that would produce them.
Your numbers
Your own history: sales in a month divided by live listings, times 100.
Result
What the goal asks for
Sales you need per month
462
Sales per day
15.4
Live listings that produce it
3,850
These are planning aids built on the numbers you type in. They are estimates, not forecasts, and they know nothing about your supplier, carrier or marketplace beyond what you enter.
Using it
- 1
Set the goal
The net profit you want in a month, after fees and costs.
- 2
Enter profit per sale
Use the profit calculator or your own average.
- 3
Enter your sales rate
Divide a month's sales by your live listings and multiply by 100.
The arithmetic
1sales needed = goal / profit per sale
2live listings = sales needed / (sales per 100 listings / 100)
Sample run: A $3,000 goal at $6.50 profit per sale needs 462 sales a month, about 15 a day. At 12 sales per 100 listings that takes roughly 3,850 live listings.