<h2>Gain financial control with Cost & Reports for WooCommerce</h2>
<p>Cost & Reports for WooCommerce helps you manage product costs, pricing, profit, and reporting directly inside WooCommerce. Update costs and prices in bulk, track margins across orders and products, export reports, and use the new Insights tab to better understand your store’s financial performance.</p>
<p>Use your product costs, purchase prices, shipping costs, markups, stock values, order data, and refunds to make clearer pricing and profitability decisions.</p>
<h3>Key benefits</h3>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li><strong>Financial insights</strong> — Monitor costs, revenue, profit, stock value, refunds, and key store metrics.</li>
<li><strong>Profit-First Insights</strong> — See KPI cards, trends, and ranked product/customer lists for faster decision-making.</li>
<li><strong>Bulk cost and price management</strong> — Update costs, prices, stock, markups, and related values across your catalog.</li>
<li><strong>Detailed reports</strong> — Analyze orders, products, customers, refunds, profit, and sales data with filters and exports.</li>
<li><strong>Inventory Valuation</strong> — See full-store purchase, COGS, retail, and stock totals in one dialog.</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce COGS support</strong> — Use the native WooCommerce Cost of Goods field when enabled.</li>
<li><strong>CSV and XLSX export</strong> — Export full reports or filtered on-screen tables for further analysis.</li>
<li><strong>Dark mode</strong> — Work comfortably with a clean, low-glare admin interface.</li>
</ul>
<p>Cost & Reports for WooCommerce has been recognized as one of the best accounting software solutions for WooCommerce in 2024 by <a href="https://techreport.com/business-software/best-accounting-software-for-woocommerce/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TechReport</a>.</p>
<h2>Powerful table editor for product costing</h2>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/wcr-3.7.5-home.png"><img class="alignnone wp-image-18734006651681 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/wcr-3.7.5-home.png" alt="Cost & Reports - home tab" width="1512" height="1218" /></a></p>
<p>The Cost & Reports table editor is built for efficient bulk updates and inventory management. Quickly modify purchase prices, cost of goods, shipping fees, markups, regular prices, sale prices, and stock values.</p>
<p>Automated calculations help you understand retail value, cost value, profit, and markup while you work.</p>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li><strong>Detailed financial overview</strong> — Display total and individual cost values, retail values, and profit.</li>
<li><strong>Search and filtering</strong> — Use range filters and customizable views to isolate specific data points.</li>
<li><strong>Customizable views</strong> — Hide or show product IDs, SKUs, cost fields, price fields, stock, and more.</li>
<li><strong>Sorting and export</strong> — Sort data by column and export filtered results in CSV or XLSX format.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Bulk editing made simple</h2>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/crw-3.4.1-bulk-cogs.png"><img src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/crw-3.4.1-bulk-cogs.png" alt="Cost & Reports - bulk functions" width="1372" height="627" /></a></p>
<p>Bulk editing functions let you update multiple rows with a few clicks. Adjust costs, markups, prices, and stock values, apply rounding for cleaner pricing, and save changes from one table view.</p>
<p>For example, you can increase an “other cost” field for all selected products, apply a rounding rule, or update prices while Cost & Reports recalculates markup and profit automatically.</p>
<h2>Product-specific cost tracking</h2>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cost-reports-product-page-view.png"><img src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cost-reports-product-page-view.png" alt="Cost & Reports product page cost fields" width="980" height="271" /></a></p>
<p>Add purchase prices and cost of goods on each product or variation. Cost & Reports stores cost information so reports can show historically accurate profit when orders are placed.</p>
<p>Support for the native WooCommerce Cost of Goods field is available and can be enabled in the plugin settings.</p>
<h2>VAT and profit calculations</h2>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/crw-3.4.1-prices.png"><img src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/crw-3.4.1-prices.png" alt="Cost & Reports - prices" width="1372" height="627" /></a></p>
<p>Work with prices including or excluding VAT and let the plugin calculate cost, retail value, markup, and profit. This makes it easier to maintain accurate pricing while keeping profitability visible.</p>
<h2>Advanced range filtering</h2>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/crw-3.4.1-range-filter.png"><img src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/crw-3.4.1-range-filter.png" alt="Cost & Reports - range filter" width="1374" height="401" /></a></p>
<p>Filter products and reports by values such as purchase price, cost, markup, profit, stock, and more. Range filters help you quickly find products that need attention, such as low-margin products or items with missing cost data.</p>
<h2>Profit-First Insights Dashboard</h2>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cyp-3.7.0-insights-1.png"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734006634744" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cyp-3.7.0-insights-1.png?w=896" alt="Cost & Reports - insights tab" width="896" height="745" /></a><br />
Turn store data into clearer decisions with the new Insights tab. See profit-first KPI cards, sales and margin trends, and ranked lists for top products and customers without exporting data.</p>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li>Track net sales, profit, refunds, cost of goods, shipping, taxes, and order volume in one place</li>
<li>Compare net sales, profit, and cost of goods over time with visual trend charts</li>
<li>Identify top products by profit and quantity sold</li>
<li>Identify top customers by profit and revenue</li>
<li>Understand profit performance faster without digging through raw order rows</li>
</ul>
<p>The Insights tab complements the detailed Orders, Products, and Customers reports by giving store owners a faster way to understand what is driving real profitability.</p>
<h2>Reports for orders, products, and customers</h2>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cyp-3.7.0-orders.png"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734006634746" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cyp-3.7.0-orders.png?w=896" alt="Cost & Reports - orders report" width="896" height="753" /></a></p>
<p>Analyze store performance with detailed reports for orders, products, and customers. Choose date ranges, filter results, search rows, view totals and averages, and export data when needed.</p>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li><strong>Orders report</strong> — View order totals, costs, profit, net sales, taxes, refunds, customer, role, status, and more.</li>
<li><strong>Products report</strong> — Analyze products and variations sold, quantities, prices, costs, profit margins, categories, SKUs, and refunded data.</li>
<li><strong>Customers report</strong> — Review customer totals, contact details, shipping, order totals, tax, payment method, and purchase activity.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Customer filter for targeted reporting</h2>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cyp-3.4.13-customer-filter.png"><img src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cyp-3.4.13-customer-filter.png" alt="Customer filter" width="1257" height="364" /></a></p>
<p>Use the customer filter to analyze reports by specific customers, companies, or roles. Combine customer filtering with date ranges to understand revenue, profit, refunds, and purchasing behavior for selected segments.</p>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li><strong>Customer-specific reporting</strong> — Filter reports by customer name, company, or role.</li>
<li><strong>Date range analysis</strong> — Track revenue and profit over custom periods.</li>
<li><strong>Consistent filters</strong> — Apply reporting filters across orders, products, and customers.</li>
<li><strong>Export filtered data</strong> — Export filtered reports to CSV or XLSX for analysis or sharing.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Product and variation reports</h2>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cyp-3.4.13-products-report.png"><img src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cyp-3.4.13-products-report.png" alt="Products report" width="1583" height="1238" /></a></p>
<p>The products report gives you a product-level view of sales, cost, and profit. Review order IDs, product names, variations, categories, SKUs, quantities, prices at purchase, net sales, profit, and margins.</p>
<p>Use sorting and row search to quickly find the products, variations, or categories you want to analyze.</p>
<h2>Reports by customer</h2>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cyp-3.4.13-customers.png"><img src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cyp-3.4.13-customers.png" alt="Customers report" width="1578" height="967" /></a></p>
<p>The customer report helps you understand customer activity and totals. View customer name, company, email, phone, shipping, order total, tax, items purchased, currency, country, and payment method.</p>
<h3>Customer totals</h3>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cyp-3.4.4-customer-popup.png"><img src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cyp-3.4.4-customer-popup.png" alt="Cost & Reports customer totals popup" width="816" height="581" /></a></p>
<p>Click the info icon to see customer totals and summary values for a selected customer.</p>
<h2>Row search and automatic calculations</h2>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/crw-3.4.1-row-filter.png"><img src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/crw-3.4.1-row-filter.png" alt="Cost & Reports row filter" width="2023" height="559" /></a></p>
<p>Use row search to filter report tables by order ID, category, product name, SKU, customer, or other visible values. Totals, averages, best sellers, and profit calculations update automatically for the filtered selection.</p>
<h2>Live reports</h2>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cyp-3.4.13-customer-filter.png"><img src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cyp-3.4.13-customer-filter.png" alt="Cost & Reports live report filters" width="1257" height="364" /></a></p>
<p>Reports can show an automatic counter for new orders and can be refreshed automatically when enabled in settings. This makes the report view useful for live monitoring throughout the day.</p>
<h2>Cost history on order items</h2>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cyp-order-page.png"><img src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cyp-order-page.png" alt="Cost & Reports order item history" width="2288" height="1540" /></a></p>
<p>When customers purchase products, Cost & Reports can add cost of goods and purchase price to each order line. This helps preserve historical cost data so profit reports remain accurate even if product costs change later.</p>
<h2>Export detailed reports</h2>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cost-reports-3.5.3-export.png"><img src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cost-reports-3.5.3-export.png?w=980" alt="Cost & Reports export buttons" width="980" height="365" /></a></p>
<p>Cost & Reports provides two export options for your store data.</p>
<h3>Download CSV — full data export</h3>
<p>The CSV export includes complete report data with relevant fields that may not be visible in the on-screen table. Use it for accounting, custom reporting, or importing into other systems.</p>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li>Orders exports include totals, profit, shipping, tax, customer details, refunds, and more.</li>
<li>Products exports include line-item data, quantities, costs, profit margins, categories, SKUs, product types, and refunded data.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cost-reports-3.5.3-export-orders.png"><img src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cost-reports-3.5.3-export-orders.png?w=980" alt="Cost & Reports export orders CSV file" width="980" height="191" /></a><br />
<a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cost-reports-3.5.3-export-products.png"><img src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cost-reports-3.5.3-export-products.png?w=980" alt="Cost & Reports export products CSV file" width="980" height="126" /></a></p>
<h3>Export table XLSX — filtered on-screen export</h3>
<p>The XLSX export includes the currently visible report table, including filters, search terms, date ranges, and sorted columns. It is useful for quick insights or sharing filtered reports in spreadsheet tools.</p>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cyp-3.4.13-table-report.png"><img src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cyp-3.4.13-table-report.png" alt="Cost & Reports export table" width="980" height="227" /></a></p>
<h2>Already using cost of goods for your products?</h2>
<p>If you already use a cost of goods field for your products, you can connect it in the plugin settings. Cost & Reports can also create its own cost of goods field by default and use it in product, order, and report calculations.</p>
<p>Native WooCommerce Cost of Goods support is also available and can be enabled in the settings.</p>
<h2>Built for better WooCommerce decisions</h2>
<p>Cost & Reports helps you manage costs, understand margins, export financial data, and make better pricing decisions from inside WooCommerce.</p>

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<p>Manage costs, update prices with smart suggestions, and track profit with detailed WooCommerce reports and insights.</p>

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<p>Activity Guard is a free WordPress plugin that covers four things most plugins charge separately for: a complete activity log, an IP-based security firewall, a plugin vulnerability scanner, and WooCommerce abandoned cart analytics. Alerts go out in real time to Slack, Telegram, or email.</p>
<p>Most activity log plugins stop at logging. Most security plugins don’t touch WooCommerce. Activity Guard does all of it in one dashboard, so you’re not juggling four separate plugins or paying for features that should come standard.</p>
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<h3>What Makes Activity Guard Different</h3>
<p>Other free activity log plugins make you upgrade for Slack alerts, security scanning, or WooCommerce tracking. Activity Guard ships all of it for free, including Telegram notifications, IP firewall with emergency session shutdown, plugin CVE scanning, and WooCommerce incomplete-order analytics.</p>
<p>No other free plugin on WordPress.org combines these four in one place:</p>
<ul>
<li>Complete activity log with charts and visual summaries</li>
<li>IP firewall with manual blocking, CIDR ranges, and conditional rules</li>
<li>Plugin vulnerability scanner cross-referencing NVD, WPVulnerability.net, and the WPAzleen private API</li>
<li>WooCommerce analytics including abandoned cart recovery rate tracking</li>
</ul>
<h3>WordPress Activity Log</h3>
<p>Activity Guard records every meaningful change on your site, including the IP address, username, timestamp, and the exact change made. The log covers:</p>
<ul>
<li>User logins, logouts, and failed login attempts</li>
<li>User registrations, role changes, and profile edits</li>
<li>Pages, posts, and custom post types: create, edit, delete, status changes</li>
<li>Plugin and theme activations, deactivations, updates, and deletions</li>
<li>WordPress core settings and configuration changes</li>
<li>Menu, widget, and sidebar modifications</li>
<li>Email delivery tracking (email log)</li>
<li>Form submissions from Contact Form 7, SimpleForm, and others</li>
<li>Admin settings changes and debug log events</li>
<li>Cron job scheduling and background process tracking</li>
<li>Script modification and file change detection</li>
<li>Visitor traffic monitoring with an on/off toggle</li>
</ul>
<p>Visual charts summarize your audit log at a glance. No need to scroll through raw log tables to understand what’s happening on your site.</p>
<h3>Security Firewall and IP Blocking</h3>
<p>Activity Guard actively blocks threats rather than just recording them after the fact.</p>
<ul>
<li>IP blocking by manual entry, CIDR range, or conditional rule</li>
<li>Emergency shutdown: force-logout every active session on your site with one click</li>
<li>Cloudflare Turnstile login protection against bots and brute force attacks</li>
<li>Login rate limiting to stop credential-stuffing</li>
<li>Bot detection and automatic IP blocking</li>
<li>Restrict or fully disable XML-RPC access</li>
<li>Core file integrity scanner to detect unauthorized file changes</li>
<li>File integrity monitoring across plugins and themes</li>
<li>Block TOR network access</li>
<li>Block vulnerability scanner user agents</li>
<li>HTTP security headers: custom, logged, and enforced</li>
<li>WordPress version hiding</li>
<li>404 error tracking and suspicious HTTP request alerts</li>
<li>Admin dashboard visitor tracking</li>
<li>Cron job failure and site downtime monitoring</li>
</ul>
<p>The Emergency Shutdown feature is specific to Activity Guard: one click and every logged-in session on your site ends immediately. Useful when you detect a breach in progress and need everyone out now.</p>
<h3>Plugin Vulnerability Scanner</h3>
<p>Activity Guard scans every installed plugin and theme against multiple vulnerability databases before problems develop:</p>
<ul>
<li>Detect plugins with known CVEs across NVD, WPVulnerability.net, and the WPAzleen private API</li>
<li>Flag outdated plugins not compatible with your WordPress version</li>
<li>Identify abandoned plugins (not updated in over a year)</li>
<li>Warn about plugins with low install counts or poor ratings</li>
</ul>
<p>No other free activity log plugin on WordPress.org includes a built-in multi-database vulnerability scanner.</p>
<h3>WooCommerce Activity Log and Analytics</h3>
<p>Activity Guard logs every WooCommerce event and adds analytics built specifically for store owners.</p>
<p>Order tracking covers status changes, payments, refunds, and cancellations. You also get stock level changes and low-stock events, coupon creation and usage, product pricing edits, billing and shipping address updates, customer registration changes, and real-time shipping status updates.</p>
<p>The abandoned cart and incomplete-order analytics go further than basic logging. The dashboard shows checkout drop-off rates, recovery potential, recovery rate, and how customers interact with their carts before leaving. This helps you understand where revenue is being lost, not just that it was lost.</p>
<p>WooCommerce abandoned cart analytics with recovery rate tracking is included free. No competing free activity log plugin on WordPress.org provides this.</p>
<h3>Slack and Telegram Notifications</h3>
<p>Activity Guard sends alerts the moment a critical event occurs, across four channels:</p>
<ul>
<li>Slack: route alerts to any channel, tag specific users or groups with @mentions</li>
<li>Telegram: real-time activity and security alerts direct to your Telegram chat</li>
<li>Email: configurable per event type</li>
<li>Admin dashboard: in-panel notification view</li>
</ul>
<p>Events that trigger alerts include core file changes, plugin and theme updates (with the username that triggered the update), WooCommerce orders, payments, coupon usage, incomplete order follow-ups, product edits, stock changes, login and registration events, page and post changes, form submissions, and admin settings changes. A daily digest and weekly plugin download summary are also available.</p>
<p>You can schedule notifications for specific times and control exactly which events send alerts.</p>
<h3>Admin and Developer Tools</h3>
<ul>
<li>Maintenance mode toggle from the dashboard</li>
<li>Menu and widget change tracking</li>
<li>Plugin and theme activation and deactivation logs</li>
<li>Script modification detection</li>
<li>HTTP security header change logging</li>
<li>Debug log and fatal error detection</li>
<li>Email log: full delivery history for all outgoing WordPress emails</li>
<li>Contact Form 7 and SimpleForm integration alerts</li>
</ul>
<h3>Who Uses Activity Guard</h3>
<p>WooCommerce store owners use it to track every order, coupon, product change, and shipping event, and to recover revenue with abandoned cart analytics. Site administrators use it to know exactly who changed what, instantly log out suspicious users, and maintain a clean audit trail. Agencies and developers use it to monitor plugin updates, configuration changes, fatal errors, and debug logs across client sites. Security-focused admins use it to block IPs, scan for CVEs, monitor file integrity, and trigger emergency shutdowns. Multi-author sites use it to hold contributors accountable with full user activity logging and role-change tracking.</p>
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<h3>External Services</h3>
<h4>Slack Webhook Integration</h4>
<p>Activity Guard sends notifications to your Slack workspace using a Slack incoming webhook URL that you provide. To set one up:</p>
<ol>
<li>Create a Slack app or use an existing one</li>
<li>Enable Incoming Webhooks in the app settings</li>
<li>Add a webhook to your workspace</li>
<li>Paste the webhook URL into Activity Guard settings</li>
</ol>
<h4>Cloudflare Turnstile</h4>
<p>Activity Guard uses <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/application-services/products/turnstile/" rel="nofollow ugc">Cloudflare Turnstile</a> for login bot protection. See Cloudflare’s <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/application-services/products/turnstile/" rel="nofollow ugc">privacy policy</a> for details.</p>
<h4>Plugin Vulnerability Scanner – Data Sources</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress.org Plugin API: retrieves plugin metadata including latest version, last updated date, rating, and active install count. <a href="https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/" rel="ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
<li>WPAzleen API: private endpoint for known vulnerabilities by plugin and version. No sensitive data is transmitted. <a href="https://wpazleen.com/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
<li>WPVulnerability.net: public API for CVE-based vulnerability data. <a href="https://www.wpvulnerability.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
<li>National Vulnerability Database (NVD): official CVE data from NIST. <a href="https://www.nist.gov/oism/site-privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>
<p>All scans run locally using public metadata and vulnerability feeds. Activity Guard does not collect, store, or transmit any personal information during scans.</p>
<h4>Freemius</h4>
<p>Activity Guard uses the <a href="https://freemius.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Freemius</a> SDK for optional telemetry. No data is collected by default. Data collection only starts after you explicitly confirm in the admin notice. See the <a href="https://freemius.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Freemius FAQ</a> for details.</p>
<h4>WPAzleen Settings API</h4>
<p>Loads display settings for the Pro upgrade modal in the plugin admin area.</p>
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<h3>Source Code</h3>
<p>The source files for all compiled/minified JavaScript and CSS in this plugin are publicly available at:</p>
<p>https://github.com/wpazleen/activity-guard</p>
<p>Build instructions:</p>
<ol>
<li>Clone the repository or direct visit the src directory.</li>
<li>Run <code>npm install</code> in the root to install dependencies.</li>
<li>Run <code>npm run build</code> to compile the JavaScript and CSS assets.</li>
<li>The compiled files are output to <code>build/</code>.</li>
</ol>


Activity Guard – Security Scanner, Activity Log with IP blocking


Excellent plugin and easy to setup thanks for the video.


Original idea and super useful plugin!

WordPress activity log with IP blocking, plugin vulnerability scanner, WooCommerce abandoned cart analytics, and free Slack and Telegram alerts.

Cost & Reports vs Activity Guard – Security Scanner, Activity Log with IP blocking