Tracking an import consignment - Pacten Guides
A consignment is one shipment of goods coming in from abroad, held as a single record from the moment it leaves the supplier until the last unit is sold. It exists because the cost of imported goods is not the invoice — it is the invoice plus everything that happens on the way.
You will find it under Supply → Consignments.
Costs are recorded against the consignment as they are incurred, so the true cost per unit builds up over the shipment rather than being estimated at the end. The cost lines cover the usual import chain — import duty and surcharges, clearing agent fees, freight, marine insurance, handling and landing charges, container deposits, demurrage, finance costs, and the local charges that do not fit a category.
- Landed Cost — what one unit actually cost you by the time it reached your shelf: the goods value plus every cost above, spread across the units received.
- Profitability — what the shipment made once the units were sold, with overheads allocated. This is the net figure, not the gross one.
Both sit under Imports, after Consignments, because both are reports about a consignment rather than things you create in their own right.