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Landed cost components are the kinds of charges you add to inventory cost — freight, duty, handling, insurance, and anything else you pay to land goods. Each component carries an allocation basis that decides how its amount spreads across the lines on a receipt. Review the seeded list before the first landed cost allocation posts.

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Open landed cost components

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Navigate

  1. Open Settings → Purchasing.
  2. Click Landed cost components.

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Seeded components

adorabl seeds a standard set for every organization: Seeded components keep their code, but you can rename them, change the basis, assign an accrual account, or deactivate them.

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Allocation basis

Weight, volume, and manual bases need a factor on every line. Add unit weight and volume to your items so the factors default. See Items.

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Add or edit a component

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Open a row

Click a component to expand it, or click New component for a new one.
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Set the fields

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Save

Click the Save icon (Create component on a new row). Changes apply to new allocations; posted events keep the basis they were posted with.
Custom components can be deleted while unused. Seeded components are deactivated instead.
Components decide how a charge spreads. The accounts that receive the postings — Landed cost accrual and Landed cost true-up — are mapped once under System accounts.

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Example: Trail Ridge Outfitters

Trail Ridge imports daypacks by sea and pays a customs broker separately from the forwarder. The controller:
  1. Leaves Freight on Weight so heavy daypacks carry more of the ocean freight than light rain covers.
  2. Adds a Brokerage component (brokerage) on a Quantity basis, because the broker charges per carton.
  3. Keeps Duty / Customs on Value, matching how duty is assessed.
The Purchasing setup hub shows Landed cost components as configured.

Landed cost

Allocate estimates and true up to actuals.

System accounts

Map the accrual and true-up accounts.

Items

Unit weight and volume used as allocation factors.

Units of measure

Weight and volume units referenced on items.