Nidhi Import Costing — Landed Cost Software for Indian Importers

You buy from overseas suppliers

If your purchase orders go out in dollars or euros and the goods come in containers, you need the order, the bill and the stock value to agree in rupees. That is what this app does.

Freight and duty are a big share of your cost

If charges add 15–30% on top of the supplier's price, valuing stock at invoice price overstates your margin by that much. Landed cost puts those charges on the items that carried them.

You need to know what is still at sea

If your buyers plan cash and your shed manager plans space around arriving containers, the goods-in-transit register answers "what lands in the next fortnight, and what is it worth".

You buy only from Indian suppliers

Rupee purchases with GST invoices do not need an FX or landed-cost layer. Nidhi Books and Nidhi Inventory cover purchasing and stock — do not pay for this app to leave it empty.

You want customs filing or live exchange rates

This app does not file your bill of entry, connect to ICEGATE, or pull rates from a live feed. You record the bill of entry number and the rate yourself. Your customs broker still files with customs.

You need a full import ERP

Import Costing covers foreign-currency purchasing, consignments, landed cost and goods in transit. It does not write import IGST into your GST returns, and stock is valued at weighted average, not FIFO. If you need letters of credit, import licences or multi-company consolidation, a full ERP such as SAP Business One will fit you better.

The sheet is not your stock value

A costing sheet tells you what a container cost, but stock in the books stays at the supplier's price unless someone re-enters it. In Nidhi Import Costing the allocated freight, duty and clearing join the stock valuation directly.

Late bills mean re-doing the sheet

When the clearing agent bills a week after arrival, the sheet has to be reworked by hand. Here you book the charge against the consignment and every line is re-costed, with the change in the audit history.

Nobody has to remember the rate

The exchange rate on each purchase order comes from your own rate register, with who set it and from which date. A sheet holds whatever rate was typed into that cell.

Tally spreads costs inside one voucher

TallyPrime can add freight or other costs to a purchase voucher and appropriate them by quantity or by value, per its help pages. Its additional-cost documentation does not describe re-costing goods when a separate bill from another party arrives later.

A container, not a voucher, carries the charges

In Import Costing a consignment holds lines from one or several purchase orders, with its vessel, container number and bill of entry number. Freight, duty and clearing are booked against it and split by value, quantity or volume.

Keep Tally for the books if you like

Import Costing reads purchase orders and bills from Nidhi Books (₹399 + ₹399 = ₹798/month). If your accountant files from TallyPrime, moving the accounts is a separate decision.

Zoho costs a bill, Nidhi costs a shipment

Zoho Inventory's landed cost feature allocates charges to the items on a bill by value or quantity, and a freight bill can be applied to another bill, per Zoho's help article. Nidhi Import Costing allocates across every purchase-order line in a container, including lines from two different orders.

Goods at sea have their own register

Nidhi's goods-in-transit register lists every consignment in transit or at customs, with its expected date, destination warehouse and value so far. Zoho's landed cost article does not describe a register of goods still at sea.

Choose Zoho if one bill is the whole story

If every import arrives on one supplier bill and you only add freight to it, Zoho Inventory's bill-level landed cost may be all you need, especially if you already run Zoho Books.