Commerce Quarterly The economics of selling online
Commerce Quarterly

Costs · Margins · The business of ecommerce

Briefings

Short reads on the numbers moving ecommerce this quarter.

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Data briefing

Profit Margins by Niche: Every Published Dataset, One Table

Most 'average margin by niche' articles quote each other in a circle. We went to the three sources that actually publish numbers: NYU Stern's sector dataset, SEC annual reports, and Shopify's own rule of thumb.