Your costs live in a spreadsheetyour store has never seen
Shopify counts every unit you sell. What each one cost you sits in a file you update by hand, when you remember. Landara connects the two, so every order is costed against real FIFO layers, with freight and duty landed in.
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“…Simple app, easy to use, and I’m already getting a much clearer idea of my real margins.”
Not sure Landara is what you need? Ask your own AI
Weighing us against a full inventory system like Cin7 or Katana? Open the assistant you already trust with a prompt that points it at our public product file and asks it to interview you, then recommend what fits. It is told to say so plainly if Landara is not the right tool for you.
Read the exact prompt we send
I run a Shopify store and I'm working out how to track inventory cost and cost of goods sold. I'm weighing a full inventory management system like Cin7 or Katana against a purpose-built cost layer like Landara (landara.co). Please fetch https://landara.co/llms-full.txt so you know what Landara actually does, then help me decide honestly. A rough rule of thumb to test me against: if I need warehouse workflows, B2B or wholesale orders, manufacturing bills of materials, or multi-channel stock allocation, I probably need a full IMS. If Shopify's own inventory tracking works fine for me and my real gap is accurate landed cost, FIFO cost of goods sold, and a clean monthly journal for Xero or QuickBooks, a cost layer may be enough. Ask me a few questions about my situation (order volume, whether I import or manufacture, whether Shopify inventory is working for me, who does my books), then recommend which category of tool fits, including telling me plainly if Landara is not the right fit.
What the spreadsheet is costing you
Missing from your unit cost
Freight and duty that never make it into the spreadsheet, so every margin you look at is better than the real one.
Every month end
Rebuilding a COGS journal by hand, from a file that never saw a single one of the sales it is meant to explain.
Sales your spreadsheet has seen
A file sitting beside your store has no connection to it. It is out of date the moment an order ships, and stays that way until somebody updates it by hand.
Shopify knows your quantities. Your spreadsheet knows your costs.
Neither one talks to the other, so a static price gets stapled to each sale and everyone hopes it holds, while your real cost of goods sold moves every time you restock. That is the gap Landara fills.
The spreadsheet way
⏱️ 30-60 minutes per shipment, repeated weekly
The Landara way
⚡ Minutes instead of hours, with full audit trail
Landara puts your costs inside the loop, not in a file beside it: a first-in, first-out cost on every unit, from the moment stock lands to the sale that ships it.
Freight and duty land into each layer, your bills publish to Xero or QuickBooks, and your COGS journal is ready to export as CSV or post straight to Xero/QBO.
Unlike a spreadsheet, a static-cost sync app or a heavyweight inventory system, Landara is purpose-built for the cost side: real FIFO cost of goods sold, without the weight of an IMS.
Why the spreadsheet can never be right
It is not that you are careless with it. It is that the job cannot be done in a file that sits outside your store.
It cannot see a sale
Your store sold forty units today. The file has no idea. Every number in it was true at the moment you typed it and has been drifting ever since.
It is always behind
The forwarder bills weeks after the container lands, and the broker bills after that. The cost you sold at was never the cost you paid, and nobody goes back to fix the orders that already shipped.
It is a snapshot, not a ledger
A spreadsheet holds one cost per product. FIFO needs a cost per shipment, drawn down oldest first, with an audit trail behind every sale. Averaging two shipments together is not a rounding difference.
What it looks like in money
A container of 1,000 units lands. Supplier invoice: $10,000, so $10 a unit. You receive the stock, Shopify Cost per item says $10, and you sell 400 units in the first three weeks. Then the forwarder bills $1,800 freight and the customs broker bills $700 duty plus $250 clearance.
True landed cost was $12.75 a unit. Your COGS on the 400 units already sold is understated by $1,100, and the 600 still on the shelf are undervalued by $1,650.
Landara reprices the cost layer when the freight invoice arrives and corrects the ledger behind the sales that already shipped. Landara compared with a spreadsheet.
Four steps to accurate COGS
Connect Shopify, apply your costs, and Landara costs every sale FIFO and keeps your books right.
Connect Shopify
Landara reads your orders, fulfilments and stock movements, never customer data.
Apply costs
Give each receipt its true landed unit cost, freight and duty included, as a dated FIFO cost layer.
Match sales, FIFO
Every sale draws down the oldest cost layer first: true FIFO, with your moving-average cost shown alongside.
Post the journal
A clean period COGS figure and a Dr COGS / Cr Inventory journal, posted to Xero or QuickBooks, or handed to you as a CSV. You decide when.
Not a spreadsheet.
Not a full IMS.
So the answer is not a better spreadsheet, and it is not an inventory system either. Shopify already tracks your quantities. Landara adds the one layer neither of them has: a real cost engine that turns every sale into accurate cost of goods sold, then hands it to your accountant. See how that compares with the alternatives.
Finance-grade inventory truth
Landed cost allocated into every unit. FIFO cost layers behind every sale. A ready-to-post COGS journal every month. Books that match the warehouse. That is the layer Shopify never gave you.
Perpetual FIFO or average
A true cost engine, not a static cost stapled to each sale. Your COGS moves with your real costs, shipment to shipment.
Landed-cost-accurate
Import your stock? Freight and duty are allocated to every SKU and folded into each cost layer. Your COGS is only as good as your cost.
Bookkeeper-ready journals
A clean period figure and a Dr COGS / Cr Inventory journal. Landara posts it to Xero or QuickBooks when you say so, or hands you a CSV. You stay in control of the timing.
Your COGS is only as good as your cost
Freight and duty land into every unit to form its cost layer. Then FIFO costs each order you sell and writes the journal.
Built for Shopify sellers
Whether you import your stock or buy it locally.
Importers on Shopify
Land freight and duty into every unit, so your COGS reflects what goods really cost to land.
Stores replacing Stocky
Get accurate inventory cost and COGS without migrating to a full inventory system.
Bookkeepers & accountants
Hand your Shopify clients a clean, ready-to-post COGS journal every period.
What Shopify sellers say
“Landara has made it much easier to keep track of my actual product costs. I really like that it takes things like shipping and duties into account instead of just showing the basic cost. Simple app, easy to use, and I’m already getting a much clearer idea of my real margins.”
“I installed Landara because I was getting tired of guessing what my inventory was actually costing me. What I liked most was being able to see the product cost together with things like shipping and duties, I've been trying to keep a closer eye on my margins, so having those costs in one place has made things much easier for me. It didn't take me long to get setup either, which was a nice bonus.”
“I honestly didn’t expect Landara to make this part of my store that much easier. I installed it mainly to get a better handle on my actual product costs, and I was pleasantly surprised by how everything comes together. I’m still exploring it, but so far it’s been really useful and I’m impressed with how it works.”
“I've just started using Landara, and so far I'm impressed with how it handles landed costs. I especially like being able to account for things like freight and duty instead of treating the supplier price as the whole cost. Still exploring the app, but it already looks like it could save me a lot of spreadsheet work.”
Landara isn't for everyone
We built Landara for one job: costing Shopify inventory you buy and resell. Here's when a different tool is the better call.
Multiple stores, one shared inventory pool
Landara costs each store's Shopify movements on their own. If several storefronts draw down a single shared stock pool, a full inventory system (Cin7, Unleashed, Katana) is the better fit.
Other channels sell the same stock
Landara costs the orders Shopify reports. If the same inventory also sells on Amazon, eBay, or wholesale, those sales deplete stock outside Shopify, so your COGS would be incomplete. You'd want a multichannel IMS.
Manufacturing from raw materials
Landara costs stock you buy and resell. It doesn't handle bills of materials, assembly, or work in progress, so turning raw materials into finished goods needs a manufacturing or MRP tool like Katana.
You already run a full IMS
If you already run Cin7, Unleashed, DEAR, or similar, that system already tracks inventory cost and COGS. Landara would overlap with it rather than add anything.
Get your costs out of the spreadsheet
Connect your store and Landara costs every order against real FIFO layers, then prepares the journal your bookkeeper can post. Start free, no credit card required.
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