Nile Fulfillment

Invoice teardown

Send us one month of your 3PL invoice

We’ll help you understand the charges, separate fixed costs from order-related costs, and identify the details worth discussing with your provider.

Step 1 of 4

How big is the DTC side?

Annual DTC revenue
Parcels a month

Your order volume helps us put the costs in context and see whether our setup fits the work you need.

Step 1 of 4 · no email asked for until the last one

Have your rate card and a recent month of orders handy. They help connect the invoice to the work behind each charge.

What we look for

An invoice is only confusing while it stays in its own format

  1. 01

    The lines that are really one line

    Pick, pack, per-item, insert, box, dunnage. Billed separately, they look like six services. Rebuilt as a single cost per order, they usually tell you something different about what you are paying.

  2. 02

    The lines that are a rate card nobody read

    Storage billed by location rather than by volume, minimums applied per SKU, receiving billed by the hour against an undisclosed standard. These are the lines that grow while your volume does not.

  3. 03

    The lines that are someone else’s margin

    Carrier surcharges passed through with a markup, fuel adjustments applied twice, residential and DAS fees that should have been quoted into the base rate. A pass-through is only a pass-through if you can see the original.