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Landed cost

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In e-commerce, landed cost means: The full cost of getting a product to its destination: the product price plus shipping, insurance, customs duty, taxes and other fees.

In Turkish: toplam teslim maliyeti, nihai maliyet

How it is used

Used in two ways: importers calculate the landed cost of stock arriving at their warehouse, and cross-border stores show customers a landed cost at checkout so there are no surprise fees on delivery.

Example sentences

  1. Once we added duties, the landed cost of each bag was 30% higher than the factory price.

  2. We show the landed cost at checkout, so UK customers pay nothing more at the door.

Common collocations

  • calculate landed cost
  • landed cost at checkout
  • total landed cost
  • duties and taxes
  • customs dutyA tax charged by a country on goods brought in from abroad, calculated from the product type, its value and sometimes where it was made.
  • DDPShort for delivered duty paid: a shipping term under which the seller pays all delivery costs, including import duties and taxes, so the buyer pays nothing on arrival.
  • HS codeA number from the international Harmonized System that classifies a product for customs and decides which duty rate applies to it.
  • free shippingA delivery option for which the customer pays no shipping fee, often offered only on orders above a certain amount.
  • commissionThe fee a marketplace keeps from each sale, usually a percentage of the selling price that changes by product category.

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