Landed cost calculator: include freight and duty in your cost price
Add freight, duty and other costs to your buy price to get a true per-unit cost, so COGS and stock value are accurate.
The landed cost calculator on your Stock Value page works out a true per-unit cost by adding freight, import duty and any other acquisition costs on top of what you paid for the stock itself. Use the result as the item’s cost price so your cost of goods sold (COGS) and stock value reflect what the stock actually cost you to get into your hands, not just the buy price on its own.
Why the buy price alone is not enough
If you only record the price you paid for stock and ignore freight, duty and other costs of getting it to you, your cost price is understated. That inflates your reported profit and margin, and it understates how much your stock on hand is really worth. The landed cost calculator exists to fix that: it spreads the extra costs across the units you bought, so each unit carries a fair share of what it actually cost to land it.
Where to find it
Open your Stock Value page and look for the Landed-cost calculator panel. It works on a batch basis: you enter the totals for the whole batch you bought, and the calculator divides them across the number of units in that batch to give you a true cost per unit.
What to enter
Fill in the fields for the batch of stock you are costing:
- Item price (batch): the total price you paid for the batch, not per unit.
- Units in batch: how many individual units that price covers.
- Freight in: what it cost to have the batch shipped to you.
- Import duty: any customs duty you paid to bring the batch into the country.
- Other costs: any other cost of acquiring the stock that is not already covered above.
Enter these as totals for the whole batch. The calculator handles dividing everything by the number of units for you.
What you get back
As you fill in the fields, the calculator previews your true cost per unit. It also shows a breakdown bar splitting that figure into the item price share and the freight, duty and other costs share, plus a line telling you what percentage the extras add on top of the item price alone. That percentage is a quick way to see how much freight and duty are really costing you, especially useful for imported stock where the extras can be a large share of the true cost.
It is a calculator, not an automatic update
The landed cost calculator previews a true cost per unit. It does not automatically write that figure back to your stock or listings. Once you have the number, you still need to set it as the item’s cost price yourself so it feeds into your actual COGS and stock value. Note also that import duty and other costs are figures you enter, not ones DashVue looks up or calculates for you, so the result is only as accurate as what you put in.
See the related articles below for more on setting cost prices and tracking stock value.
Last updated 2026-07-04.
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