Landed cost
The sticker price is not what an ingredient costs you. By the time a crate of habaneros is on your shelf you’ve also paid shipping, maybe a marketplace commission, maybe a card fee. The landed cost is the honest number: goods plus the fees it took to get them there. BatchDash computes it on every purchase order receipt, and that’s the number that flows into each ingredient’s weighted average cost.
Skip this and every margin you compute is a little too optimistic, batch after batch.
How fees are spread
Section titled “How fees are spread”A purchase order carries its fees at the order level, under Fees & shipping: delivery, payment fee, platform fee, other. When lines are received, those fees are split across the lines in proportion to each line’s paid total, and each line’s effective unit cost is what enters the WAC.
Proportional by value is the fair default: the €80.00 line caused more of that €15.00 shipping charge to be worthwhile than the €20.00 line did, so it absorbs more of it.
A worked example
Section titled “A worked example”One order from the chili farm:
| Line | Quantity | Paid | Share of goods | Fee absorbed | Landed | Landed unit cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Habaneros | 20 kg | €80.00 | 80% | €12.00 | €92.00 | €4.60/kg |
| Onions | 10 kg | €20.00 | 20% | €3.00 | €23.00 | €2.30/kg |
Goods total €100.00, delivery fee €15.00.
The habaneros you thought cost €4.00/kg actually cost €4.60/kg: 15% more. On a sauce that’s 62% habanero, that’s the difference between a margin you believe and one you don’t.
Where it applies
Section titled “Where it applies”- Purchase order receipts are the main path: fees entered on the order are allocated automatically when you receive lines, whole order or line by line.
- Equipment bought via an order line joins your equipment at its landed unit cost too, so amortization starts from the true price.
- Manual deliveries logged from an ingredient card take their price from the linked vendor offer; if shipping matters for those purchases, put them through an order instead so the fees are captured.
The practical how-to (entering fees, editing them, what shows on each line) lives in fees and landed cost. For where the number goes next, follow it into the WAC and from there into every formula’s cost panel.