Offer Suite vs a spreadsheet

Where a spreadsheet wins

• It is free and already open. For a first bundle or a one-off promotion, a spreadsheet is often enough.
• It models anything you can write a formula for, including costs Offer Suite has no kind for yet.
• Everyone on the team can read it, change it and argue with it.

Where it breaks

• Costs change. A spreadsheet holds one unit cost per product; when a supplier invoice changes it, last quarter's margins change with it, or they are never updated. Offer Suite keeps what each order cost at the sale and restates past orders traceably.
• Renewals, refunds and cancellations arrive after the sheet was written. Realized profit per option needs every order's own lines, refunds and renewals, not the price you planned.
• The price in the sheet is not always the price at checkout. A discount set up wrong can charge full price, or stack. Offer Suite publishes an offer only after a real Storefront cart charges what it promises.
• The sheet can't publish. Someone still has to build each discount, gift line and cart rule in Shopify by hand, and keep them in step with the sheet.

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