The actual costs incurred by overseas warehouses include warehouse rent, logistics, labor, equipment depreciation, consumables, etc. From the seller’s accounting perspective, you have to pay for the first leg, tariffs, warehouse rent and handling fees, local delivery fees, etc., as well as inventory losses. In the early days, in order to improve the operating efficiency of overseas warehouses, many service providers provided refined services and billing systems, including warehousing fees, pallet fees, delivery fees, document fees, inspection duties, return fees, etc.
With the development of competition in the industry, overly complex billing items are gradually consolidated and simplified, especially those that require sellers to deliver goods on their own, plus a promotional rent-free period. In the end, only operating fees, delivery fees and individual items are involved. Value-added services. Large sellers can also adopt a monthly subscription method of renting a fixed area or storage space. The number of SKUs of a single product has become a key factor in the complexity of the operation, and is gradually being included in the quotation system by overseas warehouse merchants.
Because seasonal factors are too prominent, they have also become an aspect of billing adjustments. For example, FBA will uniformly increase the delivery fees, monthly inventory storage fees, inventory allocation and other service fees in the fourth quarter, as well as goods damage and slow-moving inventory. There will also be long-term storage fees. In order to ensure a healthy financial system, overseas warehouses require customers to prepay taxes and fees. The logistics costs of each order are clear at a glance, so that actual deductions can be made immediately.