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Automotive parts and accessories
Most vehicle parts and accessories sellers find out how the year went in about April, from their accountant. Cashowa shows you as it happens, from the statements you already have.
Free plan, 10 credits a month, no card required.
Alex M.
hello@lindenvehicleparts.co
Your business at a glance.
Revenue (90d)
$16,430.00
Operating costs (90d)
$8,543.00
Net profit (90d)
$7,887.00
Monthly net
$2,039.00
Average of closed months
Cash flow
Money in and out, last 12 months
Top costs
Biggest expense categories, last 90 days
Top suppliers
Where the money went, last 90 days
Money in a vehicle parts and accessories seller business has a shape of its own, and most tools ignore it. The defining problem in car parts is fitment. A part either fits the vehicle or it does not, and when it does not you get a return. Fitment returns are the biggest avoidable cost in the category and they are almost entirely a listing quality problem rather than a product problem.
SKU counts are enormous. Carrying parts for many models means holding a great deal of stock where each individual line sells rarely. That is a lot of cash spread very thin, and working out which lines actually justify their shelf space is genuinely hard without the numbers.
Parts also do not go out of fashion, they go out of relevance. When a model stops being on the road, its parts stop selling, slowly and without any obvious moment where it happened.
Money in
$2,657.00
Money out
$975.00
Left over
$1,682.00
Where the money went
Upload a statement and Cashowa does the sorting. Free to start, no card needed.
Three situations that come up constantly in vehicle parts and accessories.
Courier costs get categorised separately so you can see which heavy lines are barely worth sending.
Your refund rate is the measure. In car parts most returns are fitment mistakes rather than faults, so improving listing detail usually moves that number more than anything else you could spend the same effort on.
With thousands of lines you cannot review them all. The slow mover list narrows it to the ones actually costing you shelf space and cash.
Switch between monthly, quarterly and yearly to see the pattern.
Steadier than most, with a lift before winter for batteries, wipers and heating parts, and a spring lift for servicing and cosmetic work.
Upload twelve months and the pattern stops being something you half remember. You can switch between monthly, quarterly and yearly, which matters when income arrives in lumps and a single month tells you very little.
Import your sales file and Cashowa works out profit per product, what is selling, and what has not moved in sixty days. Enter what each item costs you once and the margins stop being guesswork.
Add a lead time and it warns you before something runs out, rather than after.
Reorder now
Large vehicle part, Premium vehicle part will run out before a new order arrives.
| Product | Sold | Revenue | Cost | Stock |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Large vehicle part | 63 | $4,268.88 | $28.00 | 4 |
| Premium vehicle part | 28 | $2,289.28 | $28.00 | 5 |
| Compact vehicle part | 8 | $642.88 | $28.00 | 14 |
| Classic vehicle part | 28 | $1,558.48 | $23.00 | 21 |
| Everyday vehicle part | 23 | $2,263.66 | $38.00 | 74 |
Import an order export and Cashowa works these out on its own.
Net revenue
$18,420
after refunds
Gross profit
$7,905
after unit costs
Average order
$46.10
Repeat buyers
31.4%
of customers
Refund rate
4.2%
Lifetime value
$92.30
per customer
Built around how vehicle parts and accessories sell, not around a generic business.
In this category the refund rate is mostly a data quality score.
Which of thousands of lines to drop.
Before the stock becomes unsellable.
In this category, returns usually mean the listing was unclear rather than the part was faulty.
Essential when you carry thousands of lines and each one is a small amount of trapped cash.
These get recognised and sorted on their own when they turn up on your statement. If something specific to your setup gets filed wrongly, you fix it once and it sticks.
Export a statement, upload it, and the categorising happens on its own.
The things worth knowing before you sign up.
Other automotive parts and accessories categories Cashowa is built for.
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No bank login
You upload a statement. Cashowa never asks for your banking credentials.
No card to start
The free plan gives you credits every month without payment details.
CSV or PDF
Whatever your bank exports. No special format needed.
Your data stays yours
Stored against your account only, and you can delete it whenever.
Cashowa reads your statements and tells you straight. Free plan, no card required.