Shipping & Delivery
Fulfillment, postage, and delivery costs.
Shipping & Delivery covers the cost of getting what you sell to customers — carriers, postage, and fulfillment. It tends to move with the number of units you ship.
Appears under Operating Expenses in the Foreqast table, as an expense. Ledger key: Shipping & Fulfillment.
What lands here
What to watch out for
Shipping moves with sales volume in almost exactly the way cost of goods does, so a flat projection has the same weakness: it is wrong in every month where volume changes, which for a shop is most of them. If you forecast units sold, forecast shipping from units — and note that the right formula differs depending on whether you pack the boxes or a 3PL does.
Planning this line properly is what Planning payouts is for.
How it's forecast
With the default setup — no extensions, no drivers, no custom projections — Shipping & Delivery is projected from your own booked actuals using the trailing 30-day average: the last 30 days are summed and divided by 30 to get a daily rate, which is carried forward flat and aggregated into each week and month.
daily rate = sum of the last 30 days of actuals ÷ 30
monthly forecast ≈ daily rate × days in monthFor Shipping & Delivery, €2,600 booked over the last 30 days gives €2,600 ÷ 30 ≈ €87/day, so a 30-day month projects to about €2,600. As new actuals import, the window rolls forward and the projection updates on its own.
Horizon: up to 24 months of history and 24 months forward. The table shows 12 months (or 13 weeks / 90 days) by default — scroll horizontally for the rest.
Want a different shape — a fixed cost, a growth trend, or a share of revenue? That's what the Custom Projection extension and driver-based forecasting are for. This page describes the default, historical-only behaviour.