What did that container really cost you, per product?
You pay for goods once and for freight, duty, insurance and the broker in lumps. This spreads those lumps across the lines the way a forwarder actually charges, and gives you the real unit cost, the uplift over the supplier price, and a sell price that holds your margin.
- Free
- No signup
- Runs in your browser
Drop your file here
Excel or CSV. Nothing is uploaded — the file is read on this device.
Your file stays on this device
This tool runs entirely in your browser. Your file is never uploaded, stored, or sent anywhere. You can disconnect from the internet and it still works.
How it works
- 1
Add the shipment
Product, quantity and unit cost from the supplier invoice. Weight and volume too, if you want to spread freight the way it was charged.
- 2
Enter what you paid
Freight, insurance, broker, inland haulage. Choose how each is spread, and mark the ones your customs authority counts towards the value duty is charged on.
- 3
Price it
The real unit cost per product, with the duty per line, and a suggested price at your target margin.
What it does not do
- No duty rates are built in. Every rate is one you enter, and the result is indicative.
- One currency at a time. Convert before you enter, and note the rate you used.
- It costs one shipment. It does not keep a running average across shipments.
Questions
Does it know my country’s duty rates?
No, deliberately. No tariff table is built in, because an out-of-date rate presented as fact is worse than no calculator. Every rate here is one you enter, per line, since a tariff belongs to a commodity code and not to a shipment. Check the rate against your own customs tariff before you price on it.
Which way should I spread the freight?
By whatever the forwarder charged on. Sea freight on a mixed container is usually volume; air freight is usually weight or chargeable weight; a flat brokerage is often split equally; duty-adjacent charges follow value. The tool offers value, weight, volume, units and equal, and shows what each does, because the same shipment gives genuinely different unit costs depending on which you pick.
Why is the sales tax shown separately?
Because a registered trader reclaims it. Folding import VAT or OB into the unit cost would overstate every price you build from that number. It is calculated on the duty-paid value and reported on its own line so you can see the cash you have to find without it contaminating the cost.
Does the allocation always add up?
Yes, and it is tested. Rounding each share independently loses or invents a cent, so the remainder is placed on the largest line where it is proportionally smallest. The total of the allocated shares always equals the charge you entered.
What if some lines have no weight?
A basis nothing in your file carries is marked as unusable on the page, and a charge set to it falls back to an equal split rather than landing entirely on one line or vanishing. Fill in the weights if freight really was charged on weight; the difference in unit cost can be large.
When the container becomes stock
Vender keeps a perpetual weighted-average cost per product, so the landed cost you work out here stays attached to the stock it belongs to.