Track your import spend
See what you were billed for goods and freight, month by month, grouped by category, reporting account, shipper or supplier. Read straight from your documents.
Updated 5 August 2026
The Reports page answers a question your accounting file cannot: what have I been billed for goods, and for getting them here, month by month? On perpetual inventory a capitalised cost leaves its account when the stock sells, so the general ledger has no freight line to look at. This report reads your uploaded documents instead.
Open it at Dashboard → Reports.
This is not a trial balance, and the page says so permanently. It reports what you were billed, on the date of each document. It will not agree with your general ledger and is not meant to.
Four ways to group the same spend
| Group by | What each row is | Use it for |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Freight, duty, clearance, insurance, handling | The overall shape of your import costs |
| Reporting account | The account you set on a line, shown with its name | Separating a charge from the rest of its category, such as dangerous goods out of freight |
| Shipper | Each freight forwarder or customs broker | What DG Air cost you versus everyone else |
| Supplier | Each goods supplier | Total purchases from a supplier over the window |
Shippers and suppliers are kept apart deliberately. A freight invoice is billed by a shipper; a supplier invoice, including any freight or handling lines on it, is billed by the supplier. One list mixing both would put your goods suppliers in your shipper report.
Comparing one shipper or supplier against everything
Pick a shipper or a supplier in the filter and the report shows three figures side by side: their total, the total across everyone, and their share. Twelve months of one forwarder only means something next to what the others cost.
Foreign currency lines
A line in a foreign currency converts at the rate on the document, or, when the document has none, at the exchange rate on its shipment, which is where most people set it. Lines with no rate anywhere are held out of every total and listed separately, with a link to the shipment where you can set the rate. They are never silently converted one to one.
If the report says lines are excluded, follow the link it gives you. Set the rate on the shipment and they join the totals on the next load.
Export
Export CSV downloads the table as shown: the window, the grouping, any filter, goods and charges as separate sections, and the excluded foreign-currency lines listed at the bottom so nothing is silently missing.
