Price analysis
See who is cheapest for each product, what it really costs landed and accept a supplier price as your cost.
Updated 23 September 2026
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- Why
- A margin is only honest when the cost under it is what you pay today.
- What
- Source compares supplier prices per product, works out landed cost and offers the best price as your cost.
- How
- Use the Suppliers' prices view in the Catalogue, the request comparison and each supplier's Performance tab.
Suppliers' prices
Open /app/catalog?tab=suppliers-prices. It needs Source on and a role that can see cost.
| Mode | What it shows |
|---|---|
| By product | The default supplier, the best active price and who gives it, suppliers quoting, lead time, your current cost and how far the best price sits from it |
| By supplier | Rows quoting, products covered, the active list, the last import and how many products they are cheapest on |
Accept a price as cost
- Step 1.
In By product, tick the products whose cost should follow the supplier.
- Step 2.
Choose Accept as cost. The best active price for one unit, in your currency, becomes the product's cost and the row is marked Cost basis. A price with no accepted exchange rate is skipped.
- Step 3.
Where a product has no default supplier, Set default supplier makes the supplier with the best price its default.
Nothing becomes cost on its own. Kabaido shows the drift; you decide. An admin can switch on Accept a price list as cost when it is activated in the Source settings, which accepts the prices that moved beyond the alert.
Landed cost
Landed cost adds the supplier's freight and duty to the goods and converts into your currency. The request comparison uses it for Landed cost and Award best landed cost.
| Freight | How it is added |
|---|---|
| None | Nothing |
| Per order | Shared across the lines on the order |
| Per line | Added to each line |
| Per cent of value | A share of the goods value |
| Per kg | Needs the product's weight; where none is known, no landed figure is shown rather than a guess |
Duty is a percentage of goods plus freight. A currency converts only at a rate an admin has added under Accepted exchange rates in the Source settings; without one a price shows No rate set rather than a guess.
Performance over time
Each supplier's Performance tab shows twelve months of purchase price variance (landed cost against the ordered price), spend, on time delivery and rejections, with the number of lines they rest on. See Suppliers.
Related
- Price listsImport a supplier's price list, match it to your catalogue and make it the price on offer.
- CostingKnow where the cost behind each margin comes from, and who can see it.
- Where cost comes fromKnow every place a cost enters the platform, what each one costs and what happens when a figure is missing.
- CatalogueFind where products, schemas, imports and pricing rules live, and which products bring each view.