Calculating Fees
In order for your reports to include your fees, they must be input into Vrio. Once input, they will be used for a variety of metrics around profitability, lifetime value and costs.
Fee Options
Cost of Goods
- The Cost of Goods is setup on the individual Item.
- If there are Item Variants, fees can be setup on the variant level
- The cost of good is calculated at the time of sale. Note - for Prepaids, these costs are all calculated up front at the time of sale.
Item Setup:

Variant Setup: .

Processing Fees
- Processing fees are all configured within the Merchant Account.
- The various processing fee(s) are calculated at the time of transaction
Learn more about Processing Fee calculations here.
Dispute Fees
Dispute fees are applied when a sale transaction turns into a dispute (Chargeback or Alert). These fees are what is paid on top of the refunded transaction. Commonly these fees are associated with bank fees or representment fees.
- Dispute fees are all configured within the Merchant Account.
- The dispute fee(s) are calculated at the time of the dispute transaction
AdSpend / CPA
The AdSpend, or CPA fees are calculated from the Campaign and can be configured to be specific to certain Offer(s). Each sale that occurs, based on the configuration, will then apply a CPA fee to that sale.
To setup the CPA fees within the Campaign, there are 2 options:
Flat Campaign CPA
Add a flat dollar amount to apply for any initial sale (cycle 1) that goes through that campaign. This will apply to all initial sales, from any offer setup within this Campaign.
Under the Marketing Tab of the Campaign:

Rule Based CPA
If you have more granularity to your CPA structure you can add Tracking Configuration to calculate CPA. This will allow you to use Tracking Variables and rule logic to determine when and how much a CPA should be applied to an initial sale.
Under the Marketing tab of the Campaign, select Add Tracking Configuration:

Updated 21 days ago