The tools
The costing templates, tables and downloads, grouped by what you are trying to do.
Tools you can use
14 things you can open, type into or take away for this purchase. 6 of them are spreadsheets you keep.
Calculators
Spreadsheets with live formulas. Type your own numbers into the yellow cells and the rest computes. They arrive empty of our figures on purpose, because your conversion cost is not ours.
- Garment costing template Excel
Cost a garment from fabric consumption and minutes, with two routes to the making charge so you can test the CM a factory quoted against the work in the garment.
- Your first order, landed three ways Excel
Land one order in the United States, Europe and the Gulf side by side, each market charging duty on its own base, and see why the same shirt costs three different amounts.
- Landed cost, quick check
Type a factory price and a freight figure, pick the market and the origin, and read the duty, the US extra layer and the VAT on the right base, on the page, before opening any sheet.
- Cost of payment terms
Put the deposit, the days and your own borrowing rate in and read what the term costs you in interest, so two quotes on two different terms compare on one line.
- Freight reckoner Excel
Turn the box rate you were actually quoted into the cents per kilogram that belongs in your costing, at the load you will really achieve.
Tables to look yourself up in
Tables built to be read across. Find the row that is yours and read the answer, rather than reading a general explanation and doing the translation yourself.
- Import duty on garments
Read the base duty your garment faces in each market, next to what each market actually charges duty on. The bases are not the same.
- Unit values by product
Find your own product family rather than the category average, and see what is actually being paid per piece into that market.
- Seven supplier countries, side by side
Compare Pakistan, India, China, Bangladesh and the rest on wages, power reliability, currency, cost of money and the tariff they face, each figure stamped with its own year.
- Box rate to cents per kilo
Read your quoted box rate down the side and your realistic load across the top, and take the freight cost per kilo off the grid.
Spreadsheets to download
The underlying numbers as spreadsheets, each one carrying its own explanation sheet and its source. Yours to keep, rework and attach to an internal mail.
- EU27 apparel imports by supplier Excel
Value, weight and euro per kilogram by supplying country, latest month against the same month a year before.
- UK apparel imports by supplier Excel
The same picture for Britain, which has to be read separately because it is no longer inside the EU27 figures.
- Country cost indicators Excel
Take the whole origin comparison away as a sheet, with a reference year in its own column against every figure.
Ask a person
When the answer is not published anywhere, which for a real quotation it never is. Every one of these is free to send and gets a reference number back.
- Start a brand sourcing enquiry
Describe the product and the quantity and get an honest answer on whether it is workable, before you spend anything.
- Register as a brand
Not starting today? Tell us what you make and how you buy, and we come to you when a checked factory matches.
Every spreadsheet here has live formulas and arrives with our own figures left out, because your conversion cost is not ours and a sheet full of somebody else's numbers is worse than an empty one. What is worth having is the shape: which lines exist, in what order, and what each one does to the total. All of them are on the downloads board as well, shelved by what you buy.
Start with this one
If you only open one thing on this page, open the garment costing template. It turns the fourteen steps into a number you can put beside a quotation.
Take it with you a costing template for a garment: a calculator with live formulas , with its sources, its licence and a sheet explaining every column inside the file.