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Configure Your Cost Tracking Method in Bookkeep

Landed Cost​

Landed cost lets you spread additional fees or discounts — such as shipping charges — across the items on a receipt.

Setting up landed cost types​

  1. Go to your landed cost settings.
  2. Click Add landed cost.
  3. Give it a name and description.
  4. Set the type: fee or discount.
  5. Set the default allocation method: by value or by quantity.

Adding landed cost to a receipt​

When receiving a purchase order, select the landed cost type and enter the amount. Bookkeep will allocate it across the line items using the allocation method you configured.

Example: Receiving 3 units with a $5 shipping fee allocated by quantity adds approximately $1.67 per unit to the cost. If you have multiple line items, the fee spreads proportionally across all of them.

How landed cost affects the synced cost​

The cost pushed to Shopify reflects the weighted average cost of the item — your existing inventory cost blended with the new receipt cost (unit cost + landed cost allocation).

Example: A unit received at $12 with a landed cost allocation of $2 gives a unit receipt cost of $14. After blending with existing inventory at the weighted average, the cost synced to Shopify might be $12.87.

Cost History and Audit Trail​

Bookkeep keeps a full history of:

  • Every cost sync to Shopify, with the value pushed each time
  • Supplier cost history — what you paid per unit from each supplier over time
  • Landed cost allocations per receipt

You can view this history directly from the purchase order or from the product variant.

QuickBooks Integration​

Once a purchase order is received, you can push it to QuickBooks as a bill directly from Bookkeep. This replaces the manual step of entering supplier bills in QuickBooks after receiving inventory.