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Free Garment Cost Sheet & Landed Cost Calculator
Builds a garment cost from fabric and labour up, adds freight, duty and amortised development to get a true landed cost, then shows the margin your price actually delivers.
Factory price is not product cost
Landed cost is the per-unit cost of a finished garment sitting in your warehouse, ready to sell. It includes fabric and trims, cutting and sewing, wash and finishing, labels and packaging, freight, duty, inspection, and the samples and patterns you already paid for.
Brands that price off the factory quote alone routinely discover their 60% margin is nearer 35% once the goods arrive. The calculator exists to stop that happening at the point where it is still fixable.
Development is a real line, not a rounding error
Patterns, grading, sample fabric bought at minimum purchase quantities, three or four sample rounds and the shipping between them. Amortised over a small first run, development is frequently the single largest line on the sheet — the template divides the totals by your order quantity automatically so you can see it.
When the price does not work, attack it in this order
- Fabric — a different weight, width, mill or a stock programme
- Construction — an operation that adds cost without adding value
- Trims — branded hardware versus stock equivalents
- Quantity — find where the price breaks actually fall
- Factory — the same garment, a better-matched plant
- Country — only when volume justifies the move
Quality comes last deliberately. The version of the product that sells is what makes the maths work at all.
Inside
What Is In the Workbook
| Sheet | What goes in it |
|---|---|
| How to use | What the sheet does, and the order to attack a cost in when the price does not work |
| Cost Sheet | Fabric, trims, labour, factory overhead, logistics and development — extended costs and the landed total calculate themselves |
| Pricing | Gross margin at your DTC and wholesale prices, plus the price required to hit any target margin |
| Scenarios | Three quantities or three factories side by side, including total cash required and lead time |
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