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Inventory and costs

Stock, floor samples, and what each piece really cost you to buy.

  • 6 guides
  • About 30 minutes in all
  • Updated 3 Nov 2026
Start with How landed cost and cost layers work

Four guides, in the order you’ll use them

I want to know my real costs
  1. GUIDE 1 · 4 MIN

    How landed cost and cost layers work

    How charges are split into each line's landed cost, what Planned, Estimated, Final and Missing mean, and how moving average, FIFO and LIFO cost a sale.

    Start guide 1

    YOU’LL BE ABLE TO

    • Predict how a charge is shared over a PO's lines by value, by quantity or by hand
    • Read Planned, Estimated, Final and Missing on the PO, its lines and the list
    • Know how received goods become cost layers and how a sale draws from them
  2. GUIDE 2 · 6 MIN

    Add freight, duty and other costs to a purchase order

    Add shipping, duty and other charges to a PO or a delivery, review them on the last receipt, and finalize the PO once its costs are settled.

    Start guide 2

    YOU’LL BE ABLE TO

    • Add a charge to the whole PO or to chosen items and mark it Estimated or Final
    • Record the vendor's invoiced cost and charges billed with a delivery while you receive
    • Keep or cancel PO charges on the final receipt
  3. GUIDE 3 · 4 MIN

    Correct costs after goods arrive

    Change the planned cost of units still to come, or correct a received cost and add a late charge with a reason so stock cost re-posts.

    Start guide 3

    YOU’LL BE ABLE TO

    • Update the planned cost of units not yet received
    • Correct a vendor cost on a posted receipt with a reason
    • Add a charge that arrived after the goods
  4. GUIDE 4 · 5 MIN

    Keep Shopify costs right and read your margins

    Publish landed cost to Shopify's Cost per item, clear the Needs cost review list, and see an order's margin and a template's cost history.

    Start guide 4

    YOU’LL BE ABLE TO

    • Turn on the Shopify cost sync and choose what happens when Shopify's cost was edited
    • Work the Needs cost review list: fill missing costs, finalize estimates, retry failed syncs
    • Show an order's cost and margin privately on the order page

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