US-based Zonos has partnered with Floship to offer an ecommerce fulfilment solution for presentation, payment, and collections of duties and taxes on cross-border ecommerce shipments. Manual and tedious processes, such as handling duty and tax calculation and collection, are an unavoidable part of buying, selling, and shipping goods internationally.

By joining forces, Floship’s and Zonos’ comprehensive solutions enable ecommerce retailers and logistics service providers to reduce late or rejected shipments by automating many of these labour-intensive processes. Augmenting ecommerce logistics In a competitive ecommerce fulfilment environment, consumers need to have full visibility over duties and taxes owed on their orders. Shipments arriving on time and international DDP billing/shipping make a large impact on the consumer’s delivery experience–they get their orders quickly with no surprise fees upon delivery.

Floship and Zonos realized that combining their efforts to create a solution generates a competitive synergy for the ecommerce market, delivering a collective value unavailable anywhere else. Officials from Zonos said that consumers have long felt frustrated with the inadequacy of retailers being able to provide an accurate landed cost and not offering consumers the option to pre-pay duties and taxes. If both transparency and the ability to pre-pay the landed cost were provided, then a seamless delivery experience is achieved.

They are happy to announce their integration capabilities with Floship and provide this joint offering to their retailers and customers worldwide. This inclusive cross-border enablement solution pairs landed cost transparency with customisable logistics options. One of the initial advantages of the partnership is that ecommerce retailers can create a smooth experience for collecting and paying duties and taxes by syncing their Zonos Landed Cost guarantee service with their Floship account through a robust suite of APIs.

Going digital for cost-efficiency According to a recent trade digitalisation study by McKinsey and Company, companies could save up to USD 6. 5 billion in direct costs while enabling 40 billion USD in global trade by digitising trade documentation—a traditionally physical paper, time-intensive, and resource-consuming process. Moreover, automating prepayment and the standardisation of digitised documentation globally creates a new facet of efficiency and productivity to the normally cumbersome process.

Floship’s representatives stated they’re always fine-tuning their technological offerings to enable brands to have a competitive edge whilst ensuring that their customers have the most optimal delivery experience possible. By partnering with Zonos, they have digitised traditionally manually intensive and time-consuming processes of the supply chain, which has propelled both their organisations forward towards achieving the goal of redefining the traditional linear supply chain. .