My factory quote and my actual landed cost are miles apart, what am I missing?
The usual gaps: freight and insurance (often quoted separately or not at all by the factory), customs duty and IGST (which the factory has no visibility into), packaging that wasn't in the original quote, and a currency-conversion buffer for INR/USD movement between quote and payment. Build a landed-cost spreadsheet per SKU with every line item named, and update it every time freight rates, duty slabs or the exchange rate move, not once and forget it.
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Directly connects landed cost to pricing mistakes, the gap founders hit when their factory quote and actual cost turn out to be miles apart.
An ecommerce-accounting platform's clear breakdown of what belongs in landed cost versus COGS, the exact confusion that quietly wrecks new founders' margins.
A watch-along build of an actual landed-cost-and-margin spreadsheet, useful for founders who want to see the formulas built live rather than copy a static template.
