How to estimate COD fees and profit before going live
Cod Simulator — Get insights into your next product. Understand the costs and profits better. COD Simulator provides future projections for your COD business. Calculate total fees for a country before committing, and see if your product can be profitable.
Steps
- Open Apps → COD Simulator.
- For each partner accordion (COD Partner, COD Network, Prime COD, Lofty Service), enter its known fees: Cost per Lead, Confirmation Cost, Cost per Delivered, Subscription Fees, COD Fees (%), Exchange Fees (%), and per-country Fees / Confirmation Rate / Delivery Rate, then click Save Settings for that provider.
- Click Simulate to open the simulation form.
- Select one or more Services (partners) and Countries, set Quantity, Advertising Cost, Selling Price, and the Product Cost for each selected service.
- Click Run Simulation. A results table compares every service/country combination side by side, with the best and worst values for each row (profit %, advertising cost, etc.) color-coded green/red.
- Click Start Over to change your inputs and run another scenario.
Common problems
- A cell shows "Not Supported"that provider has no shipping row saved for that country yet; go back and fill in its shipping row under that provider's accordion, or pick a different country.
- "Run Simulation" stays disabledyou must select at least one service and at least one country first.
- Quantity is rejectedQuantity must be a whole number of 1 or more.
- No merchant support tickets were found specifically about COD Simulator; the steps above come directly from the app's interface.