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Commerce marketingReviewed September 7, 2026

What is Markup?

Markup is profit measured against product cost, so it answers how far the selling price sits above that cost.

Who this applies to#

  • Use markup when setting or reviewing the increase from cost to selling price

What Markup requires#

  • Keep product cost in the denominator and do not label the result as margin

What this does not require#

  • Markup does not tell you the share of revenue retained as profit

Common mistakes#

  1. Treating 50% markup as 50% margin
  2. Applying a target-margin percentage as a markup

Markup checklist#

  • Set cost
  • Set price
  • Subtract cost
  • Divide by cost

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