Australia Pricing — FY 26/27

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Warehousing, pick & pack and value-added services from our Sydney and Brisbane hubs. Tell us how many orders you ship each week and see your 3PL cost in seconds.

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Compass · Australia 3PL pricing

Pricing, in plain language.

Enter your orders, stock and services. The estimate updates as you type and uses the published rate card, so storage and picking step down as your weekly orders grow.

1 · Your volume

Orders shipped per week

Units per orderAverage across your orders.

Return rate (% of orders)Each return is charged at the returns rates.

Rates step down automatically as your weekly orders grow. Tiers: .

2 · Warehouse

AustraliaSydney and Brisbane hubs. One rate card, AUD ex GST.

3 · Storage

Average amounts held across the week. Storage is billed per week.

Pallets stored

Reserved (empty) pallet spacesHeld empty for you at half rate.

Hanging garment positions

Floor pallets, premium placement

Pick-faces

Small pick-faces37 × 23 × 40 cm.

Medium pick-faces27 × 80 × 40 cm.

Large pick-faces55 × 80 × 40 cm.

Pick-faces held empty

Empty small (hold)

Empty medium (hold)

Empty large (hold)

4 · Inbound & returns

Labour is billed by the person-minute. Enter hours per week.

Receiving, compliant deliveries (hours)

Reworking non-compliant deliveries (hours)

Reworking returned items (hours)

Stock put-away (hours)

Returns assume each return is a whole order: the first item at the first-item rate and the rest at the additional-item rate.

5 · Outbound extras

First pick and additional picks come from your orders and units above. Add only what applies. Quantities are per week.

Heavy items, 3kg+ (units)

Heavy items, 7kg+ (units)

Heavy items, 12–22kg (units)

Fragile items (units)

Extra promo inserts (beyond first)First insert per order is free.

B2B order fulfilment (hours)Palletised and 20+ item orders.

Complex packaging (orders per week)

Ribbon tying

Short handwritten noteUp to 5 words.

Long handwritten note6 to 20 words.

Tissue paper wrapping

6 · Account & extras

Connected sales channelsFirst channel at the full admin fee.

Manual labour / special requests (hours)

Integrations specialist (hours)

Batch / expiry tracked SKUs

Pallets purchasedStandard pallet sent with an outbound.

Pooled pallet-days (CHEP / Loscam)Pass-through rental.

Picks of non-barcoded items

Example inputs are loaded so you can see how an estimate looks. Replace them with your own figures.

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Estimated 3PL cost per month

–per order

–per week

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Where the money goes

Cost per order by weekly volume

Your other inputs held constant. Fixed costs spread across more orders and rates step down at each tier.

Every line in this estimate (per week)

Estimate only, ex GST. Excludes carrier and freight costs, pooled-pallet pool fees and other pass-through costs, which are billed separately at cost. Overtime (+20%) and urgent (+25%) surcharges, onboarding and items quoted on application are not included. A month is 52 ÷ 12 weeks.

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Australia 3PL rate card

Every charge the calculator uses, ex GST in AUD. Tiered rates highlight the tier your weekly orders fall into ().

Our hubs

Australia · AUD ex GST

Sydney · Brisbane

Two Australian hubs on one rate card. Domestic carrier costs depend on your ship-from hub and are billed separately.

Billed separately at cost

Carrier and freight charges, pooled-pallet pool fees (CHEP, Loscam) and other pass-through costs are billed separately at cost. Carrier rates exclude fuel surcharges, which vary monthly.