Lets say you import 1 item.
The item costs you £100 (yes, I know, if I use foreign trader I can do it in Euro or Dollar or whatever, I'm just using £100 to make it easy to get my point across.
And to ship that item to me also costs £100.
I create a new purchase order.
I add the item price as £100 (or Dollar, Euro, whatever)
As I'm a good boy I go to the footer tab and I enter the shipping cost of £100 in there too.
I send my PO.
Supplier gets the PO, sends me an invoice, I pay it and the goods get to the UK.
Now the goods are in the UK at customs then they calculate the import duty, the import VAT and any disbursement the courier charges to sort all the paperwork faff out.
I pay the customs charges, they release the goods and they arrive.
Brill, I get all giddy, book the parts in so I can sell them and I then go and open the product page from the products module and the cost price of said part is only £100!
That item has cost us £100, the shopping another £100, maybe 6% duty, VAT (which we'll get back, why we have to pay that to only get it back is beyond me) and probably a £15 disbursement fee.
Joy.
So, in actual fact the product has cost to us more like £221 yes Sage only lists it as £100.
What I would like to see is Sage have a section to add a disbursement field, a duty field and to take these into account along with the shipping cost to calculate a real world "Last Cost Price"
Also, other things to consider are bank charges for making said foreign payment.
I can't be the only one.
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