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Freight-to-Margin Alarm

Freight can quietly eat your margin alive. Enter your invoice and freight cost — this tells you what freight costs as a percentage of your invoice, and whether you need to raise retail.

Your Invoice

Invoice Total (goods only)

The wholesale cost before shipping.

Freight Cost

What you paid (or will pay) to get it to your door.

Planned Margin

What margin did you plan to make on this order?

Alarm Threshold

Freight over what percent of invoice should trigger a warning? 10% is a common starting point — set the line that fits your margins.

Freight as % of Invoice

The Numbers

Invoice (goods) $0

Freight $0

Landed Cost $0

Planned Margin 0%

Effective Margin (after freight) 0%

Margin Lost to Freight 0 pts

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