Reading the margin colors
What the green, amber and red margins mean, and what they do not mean.
Margin is what you keep after costs and fees, shown as a percent. Batchnook colors it so you can read a list at a glance without doing the math.
Green means you are at or above your target margin — healthy. A warmer tint means you are within a few points below target — thin, a nudge, not an alarm. A stronger tint means you are well below target — underpriced.
The color never carries the meaning alone; the percent is always right there next to it.
Every order keeps the margin it had the moment you recorded it — the cost is frozen then, so an order row always matches your reports, even if a material’s cost changes later.
Where you have set targets, Home names the products that fall under one, a row each, so you know where to raise a price. A product a point or two under target counts as thin, not underpriced.
Do this in Batchnook, free to start
Snap the receipt. Watch every product’s real margin update.