What Is Landed Cost? How To Calculate It
This lesson is an article published by Shopify.
Read the articleWhat you'll get
Shopify's editorial team defines landed cost as everything you have put into a product by the time it reaches the buyer, lists its parts (manufacturing, transport and import duties, shipping and insurance, overhead, and remaining fees and taxes) and works a T-shirt example in which a $2 shirt lands at $6.38. It was written in 2022 for online sellers by a company that sells e-commerce software and fulfillment, so look up current duty rates yourself, but its formula and its advice to compare estimated with actual cost every month work for any maker.
Do this week
Fill in the article's cost lines for one product with your quotes and estimates, and set a reminder to replace them with actual costs after your first order.