SKU Count - For Online Store

Let's determine the extra commitment required if your store have a lot of products. Before we get into it, e-commerce have an extra maintenance tasks to peform on top of the main website's maintenance. Its a seperate system that sits on top of the main website.

Factors that we consider:

• Server Resources: Each product takes up space and bandwidth into the server.
• Google Indexing: We need to index each product on Google to ensure its discoverable by potential customers.
• Maintenance Tasks: Continuous efforts are required to maintain site speed, performance and fulfilling change requests. Mostly involves eCommerce related updates & optimizations. (Different from Core Maintenance)
• Database: Store order data for at least 5 years for report & analytics as well as compliance reasons.

Extra Costs

The extra commitment to consider as you increase the product/variation count. Out of the box, every e-commerce website package will have 100 SKUs included. After 100 SKUs, see below:

Here are what we consider an SKU.

• A product.
• A variation of a product.
• A grouped product. (Regardless of how many child product)
• Custom field with pricing. Determined by product fields add-on plug-in.
• Custom condition. Each condition created is counted as one SKU.

SKU(s) Count	Extra Costs
100*	S$0/m
200	S$150/m
300	S$300/m
400	S$450/m
... and so on	+ S$150 per 100 SKUs

• *If you want to add e-commerce funtionality but do not took up e-commerce website package. Your first 100 SKUs is S$150/m. Note that this is just a basic built-in e-commerce features without any extra features.

Example

The table above shows that one SKU costs S$1.50 per month. Billed every 100 SKUs. So, every 100 SKUs, will add S$150.

Assuming you took an e-commerce website pacakge and have 200 SKUs, the extra cost monthly is S$150 as the SKU exceeds the 100 SKU count.

Then, the next few months you want to add a few more products and variations.

After adding new products and variations, the total SKUs is 199. The extra cost monthly is still S$150 as you do not exceed the 200 SKU count.

Sales Volume

Some online store may have only 1 product and a few variations which probably takes up between 5 to 10 SKUs. Previously, we have discussed if an online store have multiple products:

In this metrics, on top of the extra SKU count cost incured (if applicable), here are the extra cost to consider based on per order.

Order Count	Extra Costs
100/week	S$50/m
200/week	S$100/m
300/week	S$150/m
400/week	S$200/m
... and so on	+ S$50 per 100 orders per week

Note:

If a person purchase 100 products in one checkout. It is still counted as one order.