You can use Shippit to deliver goods around the world with delivery duty paid (DDP), or delivery duty unpaid (DDU/DAP), using Smart Routing International, or a range of international carriers.

This article shows you how to turn on DDP in your Shippit account, and discusses creating orders with DDP enabled.

Delivery duty paid (DDP) offers you smooth customs clearance. We handle all customs procedures, and pay the import duties and taxes on your behalf, so that you get a seamless clearance at the destination. Because DDP ensures that customs formalities are taken care of in advance, you can minimise delays caused by clearance processes, meaning that your customers get their orders faster.

Thanks to our international shipping partners, Shippit offers a landed cost guarantee for DDP Shipping when you ship with FedEx International, or Seko. That means that as long as you provide accurate product and parcel information required by customs to calculate taxes and duties, then we can guarantee the provided upfront quote. No extra charges or nasty surprises later on for you, or your customers.

Delivery duty unpaid (DDU), sometimes referred to as delivered at place (DAP), gives you more control over the final delivery costs, because your customers are responsible for paying the import duties and taxes. DDU/DAP shipping can be a cost-effective solution for businesses and customers, especially when dealing with low-value or duty-exempted goods.

DDU/DAP also helps to reduce complexity. Shippit assists with necessary documentation and provides guidance to ensure a smooth customs process for your shipments.

If you are using BYO carriers, and you have negotiated DDP rates with them, you can continue to ship DDP with those carriers, as long as your contractual arrangement permits it. You can use Shippit to provide estimates of duty and tax and give you an idea of what the total landed cost could be. This can help you compare your BYO rates with other quotes, and allows you to use live quoting at checkout for supported e-commerce integrations.

If you are using Shippit to provide quote estimates for DDP, it does not change your contractual arrangement with your carrier. If you have agreed to DDU with your carrier, then the shipment is still booked as DDU, meaning any duties or taxes levied by customs are still payable by your customer.

You can enable DDP as your default preference for international shipments.

It is possible for you to ship to some countries even if you don't have a registered tax ID for the country you want to ship for. Shippit has partnered with Zonos to allow you to ship to the United Kingdom, European Union, and Norway using the Zonos tax ID. This allows you to take advantage of Shippit's partner rates and landed cost guarantee to ship DDP to more regions across the globe.

If you already have your own tax ID for a region, you can add it in your Shippit account. However, if you want to take advantage of Shippit's partner rates, enable the Zonos Tax ID.

When you create an international order, you can choose how you prefer taxes and duties to be handled. Shippit defaults to your selected settings, but you can also manually change individual orders to be either DDP or DDU/DAP.

From the New Orders page, select an international order to see and edit the International Shipping details. For DDP orders, click the See breakdown caret to expand the total fees, and see what customs and duties have been calculated for this order.

For DDU orders, there is no breakdown of the fees. Instead, the order is marked as "Paid by receiver (DDU)".

If you are using Shopify live quoting, there is no need to manually adjust the Shipping cost to recipient field. All Shopify live quote orders use the carrier quote. If you use flat rate shipping, you might want to adjust this setting to Flat fee instead. This is especially useful if you are shipping to a country that calculates duties and fees on a CIF (cost insurance and freight) basis, which includes the shipping costs in the calculation, such as Canada.

Manifests, labels, and commercial invoices for international orders reflect the incoterms for the shipment, and specify if the order is DDP or DDU.

For more information about incoterms, see the Understanding incoterms article.

Import fees are levied to cover the cost of additional handling by the carrier. They can vary by carrier, and are subject to change. Smart Routing International calculates import fees on DDP orders as a maximum of 3% of duties & taxes, with a minimum of US$1. Where duties and taxes are not charged, Smart Routing International does not charge import fees.

For more information about import fees, check with the individual carrier.

If you have Shopify integrated with your Shippit account, you can display DDP quotes at checkout for your customers. For more information about modifying your Shopify account for international orders, see the Integrating Shopify article.