Dutycalculator Blog http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:12:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 DutyCalculator signs Avenue32 as customer! http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/dutycalculator-signs-avenue32-as-customer/ http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/dutycalculator-signs-avenue32-as-customer/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:12:39 +0000 andre http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/?p=2155 Avenue32

Hi All -

We are excited to announce that we signed the high end fashion retailer Avenue32 as customer.

Avenue32 makes use of DutyCalculator managed product classification services and DutyCalculator API to embed accurate import duty & taxes calculations within the checkout, to offer a Duty Delivery Paid (DDP) service to their customers.

Happy calculating!

Andre & The DutyCalculator Team

]]> http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/dutycalculator-signs-avenue32-as-customer/feed/ DutyCalculator signs Christian Louboutin as customer! http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/dutycalculator-signs-christian-louboutin-as-customer/ http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/dutycalculator-signs-christian-louboutin-as-customer/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:12:18 +0000 andre http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/?p=2145 DutyCalculator signs Christian Louboutin as customer!

Hi All -

We are excited to announce that we signed Christian Louboutin, designer of luxury shoes and bags, as customer.

Christian Louboutin will integrate the DutyCalculator API into their Magento ecommerce platform, to accurately calculate import duty & taxes in the checkout. Christian Louboutin customers will then be able to pay any import duty & taxes upfront, creating an optimal customer experience. Customers will be able to make confident purchase decisions, knowing that there are no additional costs and that their shoes will sail through customs clearance without any hiccups.

Target launch date is set for early 2012.

Happy calculating!

Andre & the DutyCalculator Team

]]> http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/dutycalculator-signs-christian-louboutin-as-customer/feed/ Free import duty & tax calculator plugin for eBay listings http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/free-import-duty-tax-calculator-plugin-for-ebay-listings/ http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/free-import-duty-tax-calculator-plugin-for-ebay-listings/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:30:50 +0000 andre http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/?p=2138 Free duty calculator plugin for eBay listings

Hi All -

We just launched a free import duty & tax calculator for eBay listings.

As eBay seller, you can add the free DutyCalculator eBay plugin to your eBay listings so your international customers can estimate any import duty & taxes due with one click.

Your international customer will be able to make informed purchase decisions with the eBay plugin and avoid any unpleasant surprises. For you as an eBay seller, there will be less queries, less negative feedbacks and less returned items.

The DutyCalculator eBay plugin collects automatically all relevant information from your listing to make an accurate estimate. DutyCalculator covers over 45 countries, and more are added every month.

The DutyCalculator eBay plugion is free. Just copy paste the HTML code from here into your eBay listing.

We hope you like it!

Andre & the DutyCalculator Team

]]> http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/free-import-duty-tax-calculator-plugin-for-ebay-listings/feed/ Many more countries added to DutyCalculator! http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/many-more-countries-added-to-dutycalculator/ http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/many-more-countries-added-to-dutycalculator/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:19:25 +0000 andre http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/?p=2134 Hi All -

Hope you are well.

Just a quick note to let you know that now you can calculate import duty & taxes for many more countries. We have added as ‘import to’ countries:

  • Australia
  • Brazil
  • Chile
  • India
  • Japan
  • New Zealand
  • People’s Republic of China
  • Philippines
  • Singapore
  • South Africa
  • Switzerland
  • Turkey
  • United Arab Emirates

The calculation results include duty, sales tax and any additional taxes due. Any minimum thresholds are included in the calculations. Premium and Pro account holders will receive the correct 10 digit HS code with the calculation results as well.

We will update the DutyCalculator API version 2.0 and the Checkout Widget in the next days. Customers with customized APIs will not be impacted by this update.

We are working on adding many more countries, to be launched in the new year. You can find the roll out schedule here.

If you have any feedback or ideas, just drop me a line at andre@bundletech.com.
Happy calculating!

Andre & The DutyCalculator Team

]]> http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/many-more-countries-added-to-dutycalculator/feed/ Release DutyCalculator API Version 2.0 http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/release-dutycalculator-api-version-20/ http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/release-dutycalculator-api-version-20/#comments Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:01:27 +0000 andre http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/?p=2131 Hi All -

Just a quick note to let you know that we released DutyCalculator API version 2.0 yesterday.

Key updates include:
- Supports Canada as import to country with Canada provinces and names for local sales taxes (HST, GST, PST) and additional taxes such as excise
- Supports USA as import to country, with new input parameters such as pairs, piece and additional taxes such as Internal Revenue Tax and Merchandize Processing Fees.

You can find the documentation here. API version 1.8 is still supported.

We are working on adding many more countries and you can keep track of our progress here.

Happy calculating!

Andre

]]> http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/release-dutycalculator-api-version-20/feed/ Hello USA, you can use the DutyCalculator now! http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/hello-usa-you-can-use-the-dutycalculator-now/ http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/hello-usa-you-can-use-the-dutycalculator-now/#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:33:38 +0000 andre http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/?p=2125

Hi All -

We have just added the USA to the DutyCalculator, so now you can calculate any import duty & taxes due when importing something into the USA from anywhere in the world.

Happy calculating!

Andre & the DutyCalculator Team

]]> http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/hello-usa-you-can-use-the-dutycalculator-now/feed/ eBay integrates the DutyCalculator! http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/ebay-integrates-the-dutycalculator/ http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/ebay-integrates-the-dutycalculator/#comments Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:05:22 +0000 andre http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/?p=2111 DutyCalculator integrated on eBay

Hi All -

eBay just launched the DutyCalculator API integration! Now buyers can see the estimated import duty & taxes on the Product View Item Page so they can make informed purchase decisions and avoid unpleasant surprises. Benefits for eBay merchants are fewer customer queries, fewer returned items, fewer unpaid import duty bills and fewer negative feedbacks.

Russia is the first market that eBay launched the feature for.

Exciting news from the DutyCalculator team, we are working hard to have more news for you soon

Andre

]]> http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/ebay-integrates-the-dutycalculator/feed/ Italian VAT increase to 21% http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/italian-vat-increase-to-21/ http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/italian-vat-increase-to-21/#comments Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:25:40 +0000 andre http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/?p=2113 Following the publication into the Official Gazette, the VAT rate increase from 20% to 21% is  effective from September 17th.

]]> http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/italian-vat-increase-to-21/feed/ Hello Canada, you can use the DutyCalculator now! http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/hello-canada-you-can-use-the-dutycalculator-now/ http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/hello-canada-you-can-use-the-dutycalculator-now/#comments Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:40:21 +0000 andre http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/?p=2105

Hi all -

We have added Canada to the DutyCalculator. Now you can calculate import taxes when importing goods into Canada or exporting goods to Canada.

Happy bundling

The DutyCalculator Team

]]> http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/hello-canada-you-can-use-the-dutycalculator-now/feed/ Freebord adds the DutyCalculator Checkout Widget to its site http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/freebord-adds-the-dutycalculator-checkout-widget-to-its-site/ http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/freebord-adds-the-dutycalculator-checkout-widget-to-its-site/#comments Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:21:58 +0000 andre http://www.dutycalculator.com/blog/?p=2095 Freebord just added the DutyCalculator Checkout Widget to their site. Now international Freebord customers can make confident purchase decisions with accurate estimates of import duty & taxes displayed at checkout.

Go here for an example.

Freebord A-team in Austria: The Out-of-Towners from Freebord Mfg. on Vimeo.

Freebord uses a Yahoo store and the widget was added with little effort. Thanks to Istvan of YTimes Yahoo Store Development for helping us with this.

Happy bundling!

Andre

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