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Freight-in

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When purchasing inventory items, freight-in is the transportation cost associated with the delivery of goods from a supplier. For accounting purposes, the recipient adds this cost to the cost of the received goods.

Let's say you are purchasing inventory item which has $20 delivery fee. Rather than posting $20 delivery fee to expense account, you can add this cost to the cost of inventory item.

By not entering anything into Qty field in second line item, the cost will be added to inventory item without increasing its quantity.

If you are purchasing multiple inventory items, you don't have to manually calculate cost as per each inventory item. If you have freight-in cost to be proportionally allocated across all purchased inventory items, select Inventory on hand account, then select Freight-in item.

This will tell MYBOS to spread the freight-in cost among purchased inventory items.