About this Landed Cost Calculator
Landed cost brings together the product cost and the logistics, duty, brokerage, and handling costs needed to get inventory ready to sell.
Who this calculator is for
- Online store owners, ecommerce operators, and marketplace sellers modeling unit economics.
- Merchandising, fulfillment, and finance teams comparing price, cost, shipping, and fee assumptions.
- Founders preparing margin checks before changing packaging, promotions, bundles, or import plans.
When to use it
- Estimate profit from user-entered product, order, fulfillment, and recovery assumptions.
- Compare margin scenarios before publishing prices, discounts, shipping offers, or bundles.
- Document transparent formulas for ecommerce planning without relying on hidden platform defaults.
How to use this calculator
- Enter your own prices, costs, conversion rates, fees, and shipping assumptions.
- Review the primary output, then use supporting outputs to see which cost driver affects the result.
- Run conservative and optimistic scenarios before using the result in a forecast or promotion plan.
Key assumptions
- All prices, costs, rates, duties, shipping charges, and campaign assumptions are user-entered.
- Calculations are deterministic and run locally in the browser without uploading ecommerce or customer data.
- Results are planning estimates and do not include every tax, refund, chargeback, inventory, financing, or accounting adjustment.
Accuracy and testing
Review formula sources, default test cases, assumptions, unit handling, rounding rules, and changelog for this calculator.
How this calculator works
Inputs explained
Product cost
Supplier invoice value or inventory cost for the shipment.
Freight
Inbound ocean, air, truck, rail, parcel, or forwarder freight cost.
Insurance
Cargo insurance or declared insurance cost for the shipment.
Duty rate
Duty percentage from your classification, broker, or planning assumption.
Brokerage
Customs broker, documentation, entry, or clearance fees.
Domestic handling
Drayage, receiving, unloading, prep, inspection, or warehouse intake cost.
Units
Number of sellable units in the shipment for per-unit landed cost.
Understanding your results
Example scenarios
Practical scenario
$4,800 product cost, $900 freight, $120 insurance, 6.5% duty on $4,800, $175 brokerage, and $240 domestic handling produce $6,547 total landed cost, or $13.09 per unit across 500 units.
Key Features
- Instant Calculation
- Private & Secure
- Mobile Optimized
Things to Keep in Mind
These calculators do not fetch live carrier rates, marketplace fees, duty schedules, ad platform data, exchange rates, tax rates, or fulfillment provider pricing. Enter the current assumptions that apply to your store.
Tips & Best Practices
- Use recent invoices, carrier bills, payment processor reports, and marketplace statements when available.
- Separate variable costs from fixed overhead so unit margin is easier to compare across products.
- Stress-test margin with higher shipping, lower conversion, higher waste, and deeper discount assumptions.
Glossary of Terms
- Landed cost
- The full cost to acquire, ship, clear, and receive inventory before it is sold.
- Dutiable value
- The value used to calculate duties. In this calculator it defaults to the entered product cost.