Landed Cost Calculator. Know what each unit really costs you.

Landed cost is the total cost of getting a product into your warehouse: the supplier price plus freight, insurance, customs duty, clearance fees and any taxes you can't reclaim. Divide it by the units in the shipment to get landed cost per unit, which is the number to price from, not the factory quote.

Convert the goods cost to pounds, then add freight, insurance, duty and clearance fees for the whole shipment, plus import VAT if you can't reclaim it. Divide by the number of units. The calculator above does this for you and shows each line per unit.

Only if you're not VAT registered. VAT-registered businesses can reclaim import VAT, or account for it on their VAT return through postponed VAT accounting, so it affects cash flow but not margin. If you're not registered, it's a real cost and the calculator adds it in.

The customs value, which is normally the price of the goods plus the cost of transport and insurance to the UK border. That's why freight pushes up your duty bill too. Import VAT is then charged on the customs value plus the duty.

You can type it in, or enter your commodity code and the calculator fetches the UK standard (third country) duty rate from HMRC's UK Trade Tariff. Some duties are charged by weight or volume rather than as a percentage: for those, work out what the duty comes to as a percentage of your customs value and enter that. If your goods qualify for a preferential rate under a trade agreement, enter that rate instead. Don't know your code? Use the HS code lookup first.

The latest European Central Bank reference rate for your supplier's currency against the pound, fetched through Frankfurter and shown with its date. The ECB publishes once each working day, so it won't match what your bank or payment provider charges to the penny. If you've agreed or fixed a rate, type it in and the calculator uses yours instead.

It's how many units you need to sell to earn back what the whole shipment cost to land. Each sale brings in your net selling price less that unit's fulfilment cost, and the shipment's landed cost is divided by that. If the answer is more than the units you shipped, selling every one still won't earn the outlay back at this price. It leaves out marketing, returns and overheads, so treat it as a floor.

It varies by category, but what's left after fulfilment still has to pay for marketing, returns, payment fees and overheads. Watch margin after fulfilment, not just gross margin. The calculator calls anything under 20% of your net selling price thin.

No. Results are indicative and depend on the rates and costs you enter. Confirm duty classification and valuation with your customs broker before you commit to pricing.