Via Trading’s Buyer Tools are a series of widgets and calculators developed to help wholesale buyers run the numbers on liquidation merchandise, from converting currencies and spreading shipping costs across an order, to estimating potential revenue and profit on a customer return load. Each tool below includes an explanation of its purpose and how to use it. Feel free to call or email us with any questions, feedback or suggestions.
This tool allows you to convert one currency to another using the current exchange rate. Via Trading accepts payments in US Dollars. If you are an overseas customer, please convert US Dollars to your local currency to get an idea of the cost of the merchandise and/or shipping in your currency.
Enter your zip code to check whether your location qualifies for SoCal shipping.
The shipping cost per SKU calculator is to be used when you are purchasing an assortment of products and would like to allocate (spread) the shipping cost across all products. This helps determine the landed cost on each item in your order.
The widget uses the cost of the merchandise as a basis to distribute the shipping cost.
We often recommend shipping more than one case or pallet in each shipment. Couriers and freight companies often charge the largest fee for the initial box or pallet they pick up, and a much smaller fee for every box and pallet added to the shipment thereafter.
Combining lots and shipping them together is a great way to lower your landed costs.
This calculator allows you to compare an initial quote you receive for one lot with a second quote for two or more lots. Simply enter the cost of the merchandise and shipping in the appropriate spaces, and the savings section will display how much you are saving in dollars and as a percentage when shipping multiple lots at once.
The first and second fields in this simple profit calculator allow you to enter the price you paid in goods and in shipping in order to determine your total landed cost.
The third field allows you to estimate or enter the sales you will or have generated on the purchase in order to calculate your gross profit and gross profit margin.
The calculator automatically returns your landed cost (Goods + Shipping: $400 + $125 = $525), Profit (Sales − Landed Cost) and your Profit Margin (Profit / Sales).
The calculator automatically returns your landed cost (Goods + Shipping: $2,000 + $250 = $2,250), Profit (Sales − Landed Cost) and your Profit Margin (Profit / Sales).
The potential revenue calculator can be used to estimate the potential return you can expect on a customer return load.
In its simplest form, you estimate the percentage of the value of the goods that you will be able to sell. As a second step, you estimate what you believe you can sell the goods for as a percentage of their value.
The graded potential profit calculator is a more complex tool that can assist you in estimating your potential returns on a customer return load. It is intended for more experienced buyers who have worked with these types of customer return loads in the past and know more or less what constitutes different grades of products based on condition and category.
The calculator is flexible and allows you to “grade” a load by various factors and estimate your potential return based on each factor. The most common way to segment and grade a load is either by Product Category or by Condition:
Please note: the calculator assumes % of the load as a % of the value of the load, not % of the load in terms of quantity. For example, if your total load is $1,000 in value and includes 1 TV worth $800 and 4 radios worth $50 each, and the TV is sellable but the radios are all unsellable, then the sellable value would be 80%.
The Liquidation Load Profit Estimator combines several widgets into one, taking into account your landed cost and allowing you to calculate your estimated profits using either a Simple Calculation or a Graded Calculation.
To begin, simply enter the total retail or wholesale value of the load, as well as what percentage you paid for the load. Enter the shipping cost (if applicable) in the Shipping field, and the tool automatically calculates your Landed Cost.
You are prompted to enter the % of the load that is in decent salable condition, and the % of the load that is in poor or unsalable condition. You can then enter the % of wholesale or retail value you either estimate to receive, or have already received, for these items.
Like the Graded Revenue Calculator, this option allows you to grade the load by various factors, most commonly by Product Category (premium electronics, clothing, kitchen appliances, toys, food, etc.) or by Condition (100% New, Like New, Out of Box, etc.), and estimate your potential return based on each factor. The tool then returns your gross sales, landed cost, gross profit and gross profit margin.
Please note: the calculator assumes % of the load in terms of dollar value, not quantity. For example, if your total load is $1,000 in value and includes 1 TV valued at $800 and 4 radios valued at $50 each, and the TV is salable but the radios are all unsalable, then the salable value would be 80%.