Bloom is the app most often recommended when somebody asks for Shopify profit tracking without a three-figure monthly bill, and the recommendation is fair: it starts at twenty dollars, it publishes its prices plainly, and it does the core job. Stores that go looking for an alternative are usually not disputing any of that. They have hit something specific instead: a European tax and cost structure the tool was not built around, a cost history that needs to hold still, or a depth of statement that a dashboard aimed at simplicity deliberately does not go to. This page is written by nouz, a direct competitor, so read it accordingly. Every price below was checked 1 Sep 2026 on the vendor's own public pricing page, the concessions are real, and where Bloom is the better buy it says so.
- Bloom publishes three plans, Sprout at $20, Grow at $40 and Flourish at $80 a month, each stating unlimited orders, with a 14-day trial (checked 1 Sep 2026).
- It is the strongest value in this category for a store that wants profit visibility cheaply, and nothing here argues otherwise.
- The reasons to look elsewhere are structural rather than about price: European VAT and packaging rules, per-parcel logistics, cost history that never rewrites itself, and the depth of a full contribution ladder.
- If your objection to Bloom is only the price, the honest answer is that almost nothing is cheaper, and the flat $29 alternative is worth reading about before anything at three figures.
What Bloom is genuinely good at
Bloom's pitch is affordability without being a toy, and it holds up. A store on the entry plan gets cost of goods, shipping costs, custom metrics and an email summary, which is more than most merchants have today and vastly more than a revenue dashboard. Its higher tiers add customer lifetime value, Shopify Markets support, marketing channel profit and, at the top, attribution. The pricing page states unlimited orders on all three plans, which is the honest structure and the one that stops a good month from becoming a bigger bill.
It also publishes a great deal of comparison content of its own, which tells you something useful: a company that argues in public about its category is usually confident in the product. If your requirement is profit visibility at the lowest defensible price and your operation is straightforward, this is a good place to stop reading and go and install it.
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 in a format where a comma is a decimal point. A tool built US-first can be perfectly correct and still leave a European merchant reconciling in their head, which is the sort of small friction that ends a reporting habit.
The second is per-parcel logistics. Fulfilment is charged per parcel, not per order: split shipments pay twice for label, picking and box, weight brackets step rather than scale, and since August 2026 packaging EPR fees add a per-kilogram cost that varies by material and by market. A single shipping cost field will price a store approximately, and approximately is where margin hides.
The third is cost history. If a supplier raises a price and the tool holds one cost per product, updating it re-prices every order you ever shipped and last quarter's margins move. Effective-dated costs are what stop that: a new value applies from its own date forward and everything before it keeps what was true then.
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. Both are legitimate; they are just not substitutes, and the moment a store starts asking why CM2 moved while CM1 held, it has outgrown the first.
| Bloom | nouz | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $20 a month | EUR 69 a month, net |
| Top published tier | $80 a month | EUR 249 a month, net |
| Volume pricing | Unlimited orders on all plans | Flat, no order tiers |
| Statement depth | Profit dashboard with cost inputs | 34 lines, CM1 to EBITDA |
| Cost history | Not published as effective-dated | Effective-dated on every cost type |
| Logistics model | Shipping cost inputs | Per parcel: zones, weight brackets, EPR |
| Attribution | On the top tier | Deliberately none |
| Built for | Any Shopify store, US-first | EU and DACH Shopify stores |
Where Bloom is the better buy
At the bottom of the market, plainly. 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 entry plan, and the difference between twenty dollars and three figures matters at that size in a way it does not at ten thousand orders.
It is also the better buy for anyone who wants attribution in the same tool. We do not build attribution and are not going to: it is the single biggest scope trap in this category, and doing it badly is worse than not doing it. If you want profit and attribution under one login, that is a real requirement and this is not the page that serves it.
Where nouz is the better buy
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 where a European merchant expects it, 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. Pricing is Base 69 euro, Pro 99 euro and Scale 249 euro a month, net, and flat: no order tiers, no overage, no tier change mid-quarter.
The trade is honest in both directions. You pay more than twenty dollars, you get no attribution, and you get a statement that will tell you things a dashboard cannot. What each plan includes is set out under nouz's flat pricing. Whether the depth is worth it depends on whether your costs are complicated enough to hide anything, and a store shipping heavy products into several EU markets almost always is.
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 the tool when a supplier price changes. If the answer is that the number is simply updated, 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.
What this page cannot tell you
Whether Bloom shipped something last week that changes the comparison. Vendors improve, this page is dated, and its own pricing page rather than ours is the source of truth for its numbers. Ours is simpler to state and equally checkable: flat pricing, published, with 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, and the flat-price end of the category is covered in Kleio alternatives.