Show your international customers the full landed cost — duties, taxes, and shipping — before they buy. Reduce cart abandonment from unexpected customs fees.
Duties, taxes, and shipping calculated in real time at checkout.
Country-specific tariff schedules for accurate duty estimates worldwide.
Customers see the full price before they buy — no surprises at delivery.
UPS, FedEx, and DHL rates combined with duty estimates for the total landed cost.
Landed cost is the total price a customer pays for an international order — including the product price, shipping, import duties, and taxes. It's the true cost of getting a product from your warehouse to the customer's door, with all fees prepaid.
The formula is: Product + Shipping + Duty + Tax = Landed Cost. For example, a $120 pair of leather shoes shipped to Germany with $25 shipping, 8% duty ($9.60), and 19% VAT ($29.37) has a total landed cost of $183.97. The customer sees this total at checkout and pays nothing more.
Without landed cost transparency, international customers face surprise customs charges when their package arrives — leading to refused deliveries, disputes, and lost sales. Showing the landed cost at checkout is the foundation of successful cross-border e-commerce.
Shipping leather shoes ($120) to Germany:
The customer sees $183.97 at checkout. They pay $183.97. No surprise charges at delivery.
International cart abandonment rates are 20-30% higher than domestic — primarily due to unexpected shipping costs and duties at delivery. When customers don't know the full price until the carrier demands payment, they feel deceived and often refuse the package.
Showing landed cost at checkout solves this. Customers make informed decisions, disputes drop, and conversion rates increase. Merchants who implement transparent landed cost pricing typically see 15-25% improvement in international checkout conversion.
Landed cost is the total price a customer pays for an international order — including duties, taxes, and shipping. It's the amount they would pay if the goods arrived at their door with all fees prepaid.
RateTell combines your product's HS code classification, the destination country's tariff schedule, live carrier rates, and your declared product value to estimate the full landed cost at checkout.
Landed cost figures are estimates. Final amounts are determined by customs authorities at the time of import. Well-classified products with complete data produce the most reliable estimates.
Landed cost = Product + Shipping + Duty + Tax. Duty = product value × duty rate (from HS code). Tax = (product + shipping + duty) × VAT rate. RateTell automates this calculation at checkout.
RateTell integrates directly with Shopify, providing landed cost estimates at checkout.
Landed cost is the calculation (product + shipping + duty + tax). DDP (Delivered Duty Paid) is the shipping term meaning the seller pays all those costs. RateTell calculates landed cost to enable DDP shipping.
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Learn more: Landed Cost 101 · DDP Shipping · Duties & Taxes