Record landed cost bills
Landed cost bills are the invoices behind your landed costs — the freight, customs, and brokerage charges from service providers that belong on your inventory's cost, not in overhead. Orders → Landed Cost Bills lists them with tiles for Total Billed, Allocated, Unallocated, and Bill Count.
From invoice to bill
- Click Upload Invoice and attach the supplier's invoice (PDF or image). OCR extraction runs and the document lands in the Invoice Inbox for review.
- The Invoice Inbox is the documents workbench — supplier invoices, credit memos, and landed cost invoices arrive there whether uploaded by hand or emailed in. Review the extracted details and create the bill.
- Allocate the bill's cost across the purchase orders or inbound shipments it covers — allocated amounts flow into item cost through the landed-costs engine (see Add landed costs).
The Unallocated tile is your to-do list: billed cost that hasn't reached inventory yet.
Before the OCR path works
Document OCR is configured under the inbox's Document OCR Settings — until it's set up, uploads wait for extraction. Bills recorded through the PO landed-costs flow don't depend on it.
Next steps
- Add landed costs — allocating cost to a PO.
- Track a supplier's payables — landed cost bills in the supplier's position.
Video transcript
Landed cost bills are the freight, customs, and brokerage invoices that belong on your inventory's cost, not in overhead. Under Orders, Landed Cost Bills lists them, with tiles for what's billed, what's allocated, and what's still unallocated — your to-do list. Open a bill to see its details: the service provider, the purchase order it's linked to, and its freight line. Its cost allocations spread that cost across the linked order's products, so it lands in item cost. New bills start as invoices. Upload one, or let suppliers email them in, and they arrive in the Invoice Inbox — SKU.io reads each one, and you review it and turn it into a bill.