Manufacturer import software: container POs, customs, and landed cost per unit
Landed cost tracking software built around how a factory relationship actually works — deposit and balance, multi-month lead times, customs as a stage, and customs landed cost reconciliation that lands duties, freight, and brokerage on the right units automatically.
The spreadsheet problem
If you import from factories abroad, domestic PO software wasn't built for you. A real manufacturer relationship has stages — deposit paid, in production, ready to ship, on the water, at port, in customs, released, received — that no off-the-shelf tool tracks, so most importers build a 23-column spreadsheet nobody but them can read.
The costing is worse. A factory invoice quotes $4.20 per unit FOB. Ocean freight, brokerage, and duties push the real per-unit cost to $5.83 — but the inventory system still thinks it's $4.20. Most resellers operate this way for years before realizing it, and some never do.
What Rilk does
Importing is a first-class workflow, not a square peg jammed into a generic PO form. Manufacturer POs have payment terms broken into deposit and balance, lead times in months not days, and a status pipeline that mirrors how international shipments actually move.
How it changes your day
Instead of pinging a freight forwarder for an update, screenshotting a marine-tracking site, and pasting an ETA into a spreadsheet, you open the PO in Rilk and see exactly which stage it's in. When duties post, they're already allocated across the line items, and by the time the container reaches your warehouse the real per-unit landed cost is already calculated.
At quarter-end, instead of reassembling the factory invoice, freight invoice, broker invoice and duty calculation into a spreadsheet, the per-unit landed cost and the realized margin after fees and shipping are already on the SKU's page.
What's included
Frequently asked questions
How does Rilk calculate landed cost per unit?
Duties, ocean freight, brokerage, drayage, insurance, and any other charge on the PO are allocated across the line items by volume, weight, or value — your call — so a heavy SKU absorbs more freight than a light one. The per-unit cost basis updates the day the container clears, and per-unit profit uses it from then on.
Does it handle deposit and balance payments and multiple currencies?
Yes. Payment terms are structured — 30% on order, 70% on bill of lading, or whatever you agreed — with each payment tracked as its own event, and the exchange rate is locked per PO so an FX swing after ordering does not rewrite your cost basis.
What does customs landed cost reconciliation look like in practice?
Customs is a stage on the PO — Order placed, In production, Shipped, In transit, Customs, Released, Received. When the broker's duty invoice posts, it allocates across the line items, so the margin on the SKU you imported in March is already right when you look at it in June.
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