Bloom sells Shopify profit tracking from $20 a month with unlimited orders, attribution on its $80 plan and product costs by date range. The usual alternatives are Kleio for one flat price per store, Lifetimely for lifetime value, and nouz for a 34-line daily P&L with every cost type dated.
Bloom is the affordable end of Shopify profit analytics: paid plans from $20 a month with unlimited orders, a free plan below them, prices published plainly, and the core job covered, from product and shipping costs to an email summary. Stores that go looking for an alternative have usually hit something specific: costs with more structure than a shipping field can hold, a European tax setting, or a depth of statement that a dashboard built for simplicity does not go to. This page sets out where Bloom fits, where the other alternatives fit, and where a full profit and loss statement with a cost engine underneath it fits instead.
nouz is one of the tools compared here; competitor prices were read on 1 Oct 2026.
In short
- Bloom publishes three paid plans, checked 1 Oct 2026: Sprout at $20, Grow at $40 and Flourish at $80 a month, each with unlimited orders and a 14-day trial, plus a free Start plan that shows the last seven days of data.
- Product and shipping costs are on every paid plan; customer lifetime value, Amazon and an MCP connector start on Grow; marketing attribution is on Flourish, where a profit forecast is listed as adding soon.
- Choose Bloom when price is the deciding axis, your costs are simple, and attribution in the same tool is worth its top plan.
- Choose nouz when your costs have structure: VAT-inclusive prices, logistics priced per parcel with packaging fees, supplier and carrier prices that change, and a 34-line statement that says which stage of the business moved.
- Bloom and nouz both offer a 14-day trial, so the deciding test is the same on either: run it on your own store and check the profit figure against your bank account.
What Bloom does well
Bloom's pitch is affordability, and its first paid plan carries real substance: product costs, shipping costs with Shopify's shipping labels synced, order-level profit, your own metrics and an automated email summary, which is far more than a revenue dashboard offers. Grow adds customer lifetime value, product profit insights, email marketing profit, Slack updates, Shopify Markets, Amazon and MCP connectors for Claude and ChatGPT; Flourish adds marketing attribution, country ROAS and profit and an onboarding manager. Every plan states unlimited orders, so a strong month never produces a bigger bill, which is also how nouz prices Pro and Scale.
Bloom also lets a product cost change over time: its own blog describes assigning a cost to a date range, so a supplier increase applies from the day it took effect without rewriting the orders before it. For a store whose requirement is profit visibility at twenty dollars a month, with one market, one carrier and no packaging obligations, Bloom is a sound choice and the rest of this page will not change that.
The four reasons stores look past it
European tax handling is the first. A store selling into the EU works in VAT-inclusive prices, needs the tax taken out of what was kept rather than out of what was sold, and reads its numbers with a decimal comma. nouz is built EU and DACH first: VAT sits on its own line between Gross Revenue and Net Revenue, every line above it is VAT-inclusive the way the shop prices, numbers read €1.234,56, and the day boundary is the store's own timezone.
The second is per-parcel logistics. Fulfilment is charged per parcel, not per order: split shipments pay twice for label, picking and box, carriers price by weight bracket or by box size, and since August 2026 packaging EPR fees add a per-kilogram cost that varies by material and by market. A single shipping cost field prices a store approximately, and approximately is where margin hides. nouz prices logistics in five components: a rate card by zones you define and by weight or parcel size, pick and pack, packaging, return processing on the refund date, and EPR fees per destination country and material.
The third is the reach of cost history. Bloom dates product costs; nouz keeps effective-dated costs on every cost type, so the carrier's rate card, the pick and pack, the packaging, the payment fee rules and the overhead each carry the date they took effect. A carrier increase in April leaves March alone, and a closed month stays closed unless a change is deliberately backdated.
The fourth is depth. A dashboard that answers whether the month made money is a different instrument from a statement that answers which stage of the business ate the margin. nouz's P&L runs 34 lines from GMV to EBITDA with CM1, CM2 and CM3 between them, seven of those lines expand into their parts, and any day, week, month or custom range can be laid beside the previous period. The moment a store starts asking why CM2 moved while CM1 held, that is the instrument it needs.
| Feature | Bloom | nouz |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free, then $20, $40 or $80 a month | Base, Pro or Scale, from $55 a month, every feature on each |
| Orders | Unlimited on all plans | Pro and Scale unlimited; Base up to 500 orders a month |
| Statement depth | Profit table and dashboard, order-level profit | 34 lines, CM1 to EBITDA, seven expandable |
| Cost history | Product costs by date range | Every cost type effective-dated |
| Logistics model | Custom shipping cost, Shopify shipping sync | Per parcel: zones, weight or size, pick and pack, packaging, EPR |
| Lifetime value | From Grow | LTV cohorts in revenue and contribution terms, every plan |
| Forecast | Listed as adding soon, on Flourish | Up to twelve months ahead, this one included: profit, with What if and goals |
| Attribution | On Flourish | Not in scope; blended MER, POAS and CAC |
| AI connector (MCP) | From Grow | None |
The other alternatives
Kleio is the closest in spirit: one plan at $29 a month per store, every feature in it, unlimited users, and flexible cost rules with start and end dates. SimplyCost has the lowest paid price of the tools compared here, $9,99 a month for 600 orders and $29,99 with no order limit. Lifetimely is free up to 50 orders a month and leads with customer lifetime value. TrueProfit and BeProfit price by orders, the first with a mobile app and spend sync from twelve marketing platforms, the second with Amazon and WooCommerce beside Shopify. The single-price end of the category is covered in Kleio alternatives, and every one of these tools is priced at your own volume in the profit tracker cost calculator.
Where Bloom fits
At the bottom of the market. A store doing a few hundred orders a month with simple shipping, one market and no EPR obligation gets most of the value of profit tracking from Bloom's first paid plan, and twenty dollars is a budget conversation that store can settle in a minute.
It is also the tool to choose when attribution and profit must share one login. nouz does not build attribution and places nothing on a storefront; marketing is measured blended, as MER, POAS with the break-even MER and blended CAC, because totals that reconcile to the ad accounts and the bank are the numbers a P&L can stand behind.
Where nouz fits
For a European store whose costs have structure. The statement is thirty-four lines with a real contribution ladder, VAT comes out on its own line, logistics is priced per parcel including packaging fees per market, refunds land on the day they were issued, and every cost carries the date it took effect. On Shopify Payments the fee is the one Shopify reports for each payment, and an order Shopify stored in another currency is converted at the ECB reference rate before its own day. Beyond the statement, every plan carries the eleven Insights tabs, among them profit per product down to EBITDA with breakeven CAC and breakeven ROAS, returns economics, a reorder planner and LTV curves in revenue and contribution terms; the Forecast page, with What if scenarios, goals and planned events; margin targets that mark every P&L column; and the daily profit email with custom reports for up to ten recipients who need no seat. Pricing is Base $55, Pro $115 and Scale $289 a month (about €49, €99 and €249), before tax, and the plans differ only in how much they cover: Base covers up to 500 orders a month, and Pro and Scale have no order limit. No plan charges per order, and the first sync backfills the store's entire order history on all three.
The trade is stated plainly. You pay more than twenty dollars, you get no attribution, and you get a statement and a cost engine that a dashboard does not carry. What each plan includes is set out under nouz's pricing, and the two tools are set side by side in Bloom and nouz compared. Whether the depth pays depends on whether your costs are complicated enough to hide anything, and a store shipping heavy products into several EU markets almost always is. Each of these claims about nouz is listed, with where to check it, on the nouz facts page.
How to decide in an afternoon
- Write down your own contribution per order after goods, parcel and fees. A contribution margin calculator does it in minutes, and the number tells you how much precision is worth buying.
- Count your markets. One market and one carrier is a simple problem; four markets with EPR obligations is not.
- Ask what happens in each tool when a carrier rate changes, not only a product cost. If the number is simply overwritten, decide whether you can live with your history moving.
- Trial both. Fourteen days is enough to see whether the numbers match your own bank account, which is the only test that matters.
Keeping the comparison current
Bloom's prices and plan contents were checked 1 Oct 2026 on its Shopify App Store listing, and its date-range costing on its own blog. Vendors improve and this page is dated, so Bloom's own pages are the source of truth for its numbers. nouz's side is simpler to state and equally checkable: every feature on every plan, prices published on its own pricing page, and every plan starting on a full backfill of your store's entire order history. If you are comparing several tools rather than two, the comparison of the best Shopify profit tracking apps covers the same ground with the same dating discipline.