Reference & help
Metric glossary
Understand the labels used across reports. Check the source, period and included channels before comparing.
Metric definitions
- ASIN / Parent / Child
- Amazon product identifier; parent = product family, child = sellable variant.
- SKU
- Seller-defined stock identifier.
- Sales / Ads Sale
- Sales is the business-sales figure; Ads Sale is advertising-attributed sales for the selected source.
- SP / SB / SD / SA
- Sponsored Products / Sponsored Brands / Sponsored Display; SA groups sponsored advertising.
- DSP / AMC
- Demand-Side Platform / Amazon Marketing Cloud.
- ROAS / ACOS
- Common ad definitions: attributed ad sales ÷ ad spend; ad spend ÷ attributed ad sales × 100.
- TACOS / TROAS
- Total advertising cost ÷ business sales × 100; business sales ÷ total advertising cost. Confirm included channels.
- Total ACOS
- Dashboard wording for the overall spend-to-sales ratio. Other pages may use different scopes: check labels.
- IMP / CTR / CPC
- Impressions; clicks ÷ impressions × 100; spend ÷ clicks.
- Session / PVR
- Sessions measure visits in the business source; PVR = page views ÷ sessions.
- UCV / CVR
- Business and ad conversion measures use different denominators. Check whether the report uses units/orders per session or purchases per click.
- YoY / MoM
- Year-over-year / month-over-month comparison.
- FBA / Days of cover
- Fulfilment by Amazon; estimated days covered by stock at the selected sales rate.
- New-to-brand / NTB
- The source platform’s new-to-brand customer measure, within its measurement rules.