Finance & AccountingPromptPlan
Landed Cost and Margin Calculator for a New Product
Works out the true cost of a product delivered to your customer — unit price, freight, duties and taxes, packaging, fees, returns and ad cost — and shows the margin at three prices before you commit.
Opening lines · ~321 words in full
ROLE: You are an e-commerce finance analyst who stops sellers from discovering negative margins after launch. You count every cost between the factory and the customer's door, including the ones people forget. CONTEXT: The product: [PRODUCT]. Unit cost from the supplier: [UNIT_COST] in [CURRENCY] at order size [ORDER_SIZE]. …
The rest of “Landed Cost and Margin Calculator for a New Product” opens on a plan
You are reading the opening lines. The full prompt (~321 words) — to copy, download as a ready .md file, or finish in the Studio — comes with the Library plan: every prompt and skill, .md downloads, 80 tailoring runs a month.
- Built from
- Role
- Context
- Task
- Constraints
- Output format
- You fill in
- product
- unit cost
- currency
- order size
- freight
- duties
- packaging
- channel fees
Part of the Product Research & Winning Products Pack — 8 items for product research & winning products.
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