What do Active, Now, Scheduled, Ended and Booked mean on the cost pages?

They say whether a cost applies today, starts later or has stopped. On the Overhead page they are the Status of each cost, a small coloured label in the first column. Active means the cost applies today. Scheduled means it starts on a later day. Ended means it stopped before today. Booked is for one-time costs: a one-off dated today or earlier reads Booked, and one dated in the future reads Scheduled until its day comes. The list shows Active costs first, then Scheduled, then Booked, then Ended.

Logistics and Products keep every version of a cost instead. Each cost on Logistics has a Price history, and each variant on Products has a Cost history. Every version carries a small tag: Now applies today, Scheduled starts later, and Ended has stopped. That is how your history keeps the prices that were true then. A version with a later start date is Scheduled, so you can enter a price rise before it happens.

Transaction fees puts a status on each payment method's row. Automatic means Shopify reports the fee itself, Add its fee means payments no fee prices, and New fee 1 Oct means a change is planned. Inside a method, History marks the fee in force Now and a later one Planned.

You cannot pause a cost. To stop one, give it an end date: End on a date, in the three-dot menu of its newest version on Logistics and Transaction fees, or End date on the Overhead page. After that day it reads Ended and counts no more. A product's unit cost has no end date, it runs until the next one starts. The Products page also shows each variant's Status: Synced, Edited or No cost.