TrueCost Pro
The whole container, not one product at a time
TrueCost Pro is the working version of TrueCost: every product in the shipment, saved to your account, allocated properly, reconciled against what you were actually charged, and exportable as a report you can hand to a partner or a bank.
Launch price · US$29 · one-time payment
See Pro in action
Rather than take our word for it, open the workspace. The demo is the real Pro structure filled with an illustrative container of three products, and the sample report is exactly what a project prints.
Illustrative demo — not customer data
The read-only Pro workspace
- Three products in one 40ft container
- Project and product names, references and SKUs
- HS code with HS 2022 description, source and verification date
- Freight, insurance and clearing allocated by purchase value
- Per-product landed cost, cost per unit, profit and margin
- Side-by-side comparison of every product
- Reconciliation variance against illustrative actuals
- Freight scenarios and the full printable report
No sign-in, nothing saved. Saving and deleting are disabled in the demo, and the figures and rates are invented for demonstration.
Why we show this instead of testimonials
Cardinal Toolworks is new. We publish no customer quotes, logos or usage figures, because we have none to publish honestly. What we can show you is the working product, the arithmetic behind it and the report it produces.
The Liberia and South Africa worked examples show the same method applied step by step.
If you want to judge the arithmetic first, read how shared freight and clearing costs are split between products and our calculation methodology.
What Pro adds
Each capability below is in the demo you can open above.
Multi-product shipments
One project holds every product in the container. Each product carries its own name, internal SKU, HS code, duty rate, quantity, weight, volume, selling price and target margin.
Shared cost allocation
Freight, insurance, clearing and delivery are allocated across products by purchase value, quantity, weight or volume — so your per-product cost reflects reality.
Meaningful HS fields
The HS code is normalised and split into chapter, international six digits and national extension, with the official tariff description, source URL and verification date recorded on the report.
Unlimited excise and levies
Add as many rules as the destination requires, at shipment or product level: percentage, specific per item/kg/ton/litre/gallon, or fixed, each with optional minimum, maximum and VAT-base treatment.
Scenarios and comparison
Test a freight increase or a different exchange rate, and duplicate a project to compare two suppliers or shipping options side by side.
Reconciliation
After clearance, enter the actual invoice and customs assessment figures and see the variance against your estimate, product by product.
Cloud saving
Projects are stored against your account. Sign in on another device and your work is there — and nobody else can read it.
Reports and export
Export a full CSV including every intermediate figure, or print a clean report to paper or PDF.
How Pro works
One paid account holds as many shipment projects as you need. Each project is one shipment, container or supplier quotation, and can hold as many products as travelled in it.
1. Shipment setup
Destination, origin, currency, freight, insurance, container, allocation basis and tax rules — for that shipment only.
2. Products
Add every product in the shipment with its total supplier cost, units, HS code, duty and expected selling price.
3. Compare
See how shared costs were allocated and which products are actually profitable.
4. Reconcile
After arrival, enter the real invoices and customs assessment and see the variance against your estimate.
5. Scenarios
Test a freight rise or a different exchange rate without overwriting your saved base figures.
6. Report
Download the CSV or save a neutral, professional landed cost PDF for that shipment.
Read the full step-by-step guide or open the read-only demo.
Inside the workspace
Five tabs, one project. Nothing decorative.
Shipment setup
Destination, origin, freight, insurance, container, allocation basis, duty base, tax base and shipment-level levies.
Products
Add, name and reference every product. HS code with chapter, six-digit and national breakdown, tariff description, source and verification date.
Compare
A dense table of landed cost, per-unit cost, profit, margin and each product's share of shared costs.
Reconcile
Actual landed cost, customs assessment and invoice reference against your estimate, with variance.
Report
Full per-product working plus shipment totals, ready to print or export.
Scenarios
Freight percentage changes and exchange-rate conversion without disturbing your base figures.
Questions
See also our refund policy and terms.