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Manufacturer & import ​

Order from your overseas factory the way the relationship actually works — deposit-and-balance, multi-month lead times, customs as a stage, and landed cost reflecting duties, freight, and brokerage automatically.

The spreadsheet problem ​

If you import from factories abroad, you already know that domestic PO software wasn't built for you. A real manufacturer relationship has stages — deposit paid, in production, ready to ship, on the water, at port, in customs, released, received — that no off-the-shelf tool tracks. So you build a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet has 23 columns. Half of them are dates that get updated by hand. The other half are dollar amounts in two currencies. Nobody but you can read it.

And the costing? That's the worst part. Your factory invoice says $4.20 per unit FOB Shenzhen. Then ocean freight is $9,800 for the container. Then the broker is $1,200. Then duties at 7.5% on the declared value. Then drayage from the port. By the time the boxes land in your warehouse, the real per-unit cost is $5.83 — but your inventory system still thinks it's $4.20. You're selling at margins you don't actually have, and you only find out when the year-end P&L comes in worse than the spreadsheet promised.

Most resellers operate this way for years before realizing it. Most never realize it.

What Rilk does ​

Importing is a first-class workflow, not a square peg jammed into a generic PO form. Manufacturer POs have payment terms broken into deposit and balance, lead times in months not days, and a status pipeline that mirrors how international shipments actually move.

  • Deposit and balance payment terms — e.g. 30% deposit on order, 70% on bill of lading. Each payment is its own tracked event with date, amount, and method.
  • Multi-month lead times with realistic expected dates at every stage, not just "receive by".
  • Customs as a workflow stage: Order placed → In production → Shipped → In transit → Customs → Released → Received. You always know exactly where the shipment is.
  • Landed cost on every unit automatically — duties, ocean freight, brokerage, drayage, insurance, and any additional charges allocate down to the line items.
  • Volume-weighted cost spread on multi-line POs so a heavy SKU absorbs more freight than a light one, and your per-unit margin reflects reality.
  • Multi-currency support with locked exchange rates per PO, so an FX swing after you placed the order doesn't quietly rewrite your cost basis.
  • Document attachments — commercial invoices, packing lists, bills of lading, certificates of origin — all stored with the PO they belong to.

How it changes your day ​

Before: You'd ping your freight forwarder for an update. They'd reply 36 hours later with a vessel name. You'd Google the vessel, find a marine tracking site, screenshot the position, paste it into your spreadsheet, and update the ETA column. Then a week later the container would clear customs and you'd have no idea — until your broker emailed an invoice. Then it'd sit in the bonded warehouse for three more days because nobody told the trucker.

After: You open the PO in Rilk and see exactly which stage it's in. When your forwarder or broker updates the status, the PO updates. When duties post, they're already allocated across the line items. When the container arrives at your warehouse, you receive it like any other PO — except by then the real per-unit landed cost has already been calculated.

Before: Quarter-end. You sit down to figure out the real margin on the SKU you imported in March. You open the factory invoice. You open the freight invoice. You open the broker invoice. You open the duty calculation. You build a spreadsheet that sums it all up, divides by units received, and produces a per-unit landed cost. Then you compare it to the average sale price. Then you realize the spreadsheet has a row missing and you do it again.

After: You open Rilk, navigate to the SKU, and the per-unit landed cost is right there. So is the average sale price across every channel. So is the realized margin after fees and shipping. The whole exercise that used to take half a day is the page you already had open.

What's included ​

  • Manufacturer/factory vendor profiles with payment terms, lead times, and contact info
  • Structured deposit/balance payment workflow with per-payment tracking
  • Stage-based PO status: Order placed, In production, Shipped, In transit, Customs, Released, Received
  • Document storage on the PO: commercial invoices, packing lists, BLs, certificates
  • Landed cost allocation across line items (by volume, by weight, by value)
  • Multi-currency support with locked FX rates per PO
  • Customs-clearance event tracking
  • Receive workflow with partial-receipt support
  • Per-unit cost basis reflecting the full landed cost, automatically propagated to the per-unit profit and loss

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