Having worked with a number of ecommerce businesses engaging in cross-border shipping, one thing became very clear. Maintaining the balance between shopper UX, international shipping demand, and profit, is a difficult task for a business of any size. Either you sacrifice shopper UX (and most likely revenue in the form of returns) and ship internationally without much forethought, only to discover the shipment was never delivered due to the customer not paying their duty and tax invoice. Or, you spend half your ecommerce budget on an integrated enterprise solution via a logistics partner. You could always try to do this yourself, but the problem here is the barrier to entry. Finding the correct commodity code for your product within a 5,000 page tariff. Understanding whether your shipment exceeds minimum thresholds, and calculating the totals based on the import country's published formula. Not to mention all of this will differ depending on the countries that the product are shipped from and to. There has to be a better way of doing things right? That's what we thought. So we designed Dutify, a web application that allows someone to calculate exactly how much duty and tax would need to be paid on a shipment. Dutify has been designed from the ground up to be used by people with no experience in logistics or customs procedures. In 4 steps, you can get an accurate duty and tax calculation along with the complete commodity code to provide to your courier and detailed compliance restriction messaging. We also have API solutions available for ecommerce businesses, which let shoppers see exactly how much duty and tax they'll have to pay (and even pay it at the time of checkout), without breaking the bank. We offer free calculations to anyone that signs up, so go and give us a shot and we'd love to get some feedback from likeminded product makers and hunters within the community here!

Dutify

Simplify import duty & tax

Simplify import duty & tax