Landed cost calculator
Find what each imported unit really costs once freight, customs duty and fees are in — and what to charge for the margin you want.
Result
- Goods value
- 30,000.00
- Freight & shipping
- 3,000.00
- Customs duty
- 3,300.00
- Other fees
- 1,500.00
- Total landed cost
- 37,800.00
- Landed cost per unit
- 75.60
- Suggested price per unit (before VAT)
- 126.00
- Suggested price incl. 14% VAT
- 143.64
- Gross profit per unit
- 50.40
For planning only — not tax, legal or accounting advice. Check final figures with your accountant.
How it's calculated
Goods value = product cost per unit × quantity.
Customs duty = duty rate × (goods value + freight). Duty is applied to the goods plus shipping (the CIF value), not to the goods alone.
Landed cost = goods value + freight + customs duty + other fees, and the landed cost per unit is that total ÷ quantity.
Suggested price = landed cost per unit ÷ (1 − target margin). A 40% margin on a unit that lands at 60 means a price of 100, before VAT.
Common questions
What is landed cost?
Everything it takes to get a product onto your shelf: the supplier price plus freight, insurance, customs duty and clearance fees. It's the cost your margin should be measured against — not the supplier invoice alone.
Should import VAT be part of landed cost?
Usually not. If your business is VAT-registered, the VAT paid at import is recovered as input VAT, so it isn't a cost of the goods. If you can't recover it, add it under other fees.
Margin or markup — which does the suggested price use?
Margin: the share of the selling price that is profit. A 40% margin on a unit costing 60 is a price of 100 (40 profit ÷ 100 price). A 40% markup on the same 60 would give 84.
Do this automatically in Kayan.
Kayan ties landed cost and cost of goods sold to the ledger, so every order's margin is measured against what the goods really cost.
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