How does it work?
The Full Landed Cost Calculator provides a clear overview of the total cost of a cross-border e-commerce purchase after making sure that complies with the destination market’s import regulations. As the e-buyer selects a product and proceeds with the checkout on an e-seller’s website based in another country, the buyer can then indicate the country of delivery. The IPC Full Landed Cost Calculator will complete the payment overview with information that includes any additional fee or surcharge applied in the destination country, giving the shopper a clear overview of the total cost of their purchase. In one easy transaction, the consumer pays for the goods, as well as the shipping costs, the taxes and the customs duties if they wish.
Benefits
For consumers:
- Full visibility while making a cross-border e-commerce purchase, all costs – taxes, duties and surcharges – are calculated and shown at checkout
- Hassle-free cross-border e-commerce as one transaction covers all costs
- Enhance delivery experience with shipments going through Customs quicker and no further notifications demanding additional payments or provision of commercial invoices.
For e-sellers:
- Improved customer experience, thereby increasing customer retention and boosting sales
- Fully compliant with future regulatory changes
- Guaranteed payment for e-sellers as money will be immediately transferred from the payment platform
- Easy API implementation, giving e-sellers and major webshop owners an easy plug-in
- Possibility for e-retailers to continue using their bespoke arrangements as PDDP solution design is giving some freedom to choose the implementation that better suits their needs.
For posts:
- Better response to cross-border e-commerce consumer and e-retailer expectations
- Stronger service offering to boost competitiveness in a market where large integrators and other delivery operators are already offering similar solutions
- PDDP solution design allows to launch the service with very limited IT work needed from the post
- More data at hand is increasingly required by authorities (Stop Act, ICS2, etc)
More information
To find out more about IPC's PDDP, contact us via e-mail at [email protected]