Proxy and cross-border platforms
Turn more overseas visitors into buyers, and deliver with no payment at the door. Partner with Outpost to get more payments approved, collect tax and duties at checkout, and leave customs to us.
Proxy and cross-border platforms
More payments approved, parcels delivered with nothing to pay at the door, and no tax work as you add countries.
Increase your approval rate abroad, convert the demand you already have, and lower the cost of each sale, so more overseas visitors become buyers.
Duties and import taxes are included in the price at checkout, so your customers pay nothing on delivery, accept their parcels, and order again.
We collect the VAT at checkout, file and remit it, classify your products, and deal with customs for you, so you can ship to new countries without new paperwork.
Payments
When you sell cross-border, your buyer’s bank doesn’t recognise you, so good payments get declined, and higher card fees and currency conversion costs reduce what you keep from each sale.
With Outpost as the legal reseller in the countries we cover, your customers’ payments are treated as domestic, so 25 to 40% more are approved.
Customers pay in their own currency, the way they pay at home, so more of them buy.
Your payments are treated as domestic, so card fees are lower, and you choose the currency you’re paid in.
Shoppers buy when nothing is added at the door
41%
of shoppers who don’t buy from abroad say customs, duties or taxes are what stops them.
DHL report44%
of cross-border shoppers abandon their cart rather than risk paying import duties on delivery.
Customs
Your customers pay the full price at checkout, so their parcels arrive with nothing more to pay and they order again.
We calculate the duties and import taxes for each order, so they’re in the price your customers see and they pay once, at checkout.
We settle the duties and import taxes with the carrier, so parcels arrive with nothing to pay on delivery.
We assign the tariff (HS) code to each product, which sets the duty rate for each order.
Tax
The rate isn’t the hard part. The liability is. As your local reseller, Outpost is the taxpayer on the sales we cover, so the tax office deals with us.
We’re already registered in the countries we cover, so you don’t have to be.
We calculate the VAT or sales tax on each order, and file and remit it on time.
If the tax office contacts us about those sales, we answer, so audits don’t land on your team.
Benefits
One partner that takes on the liability, provides you with a payment set-up of your own and works with the payment provider you already use.
We face the audits, compliance and tax reviews for you, and pay any fines if we get something wrong.
We isolate payment risk for each client with dedicated merchant accounts and a merchant category code (MCC).
Keep your own payment provider, or we plug directly into your orchestrator. No payments integration required.
Setup
Your customer pays one price at checkout, Outpost settles the duties, VAT and fees, and you get paid in your own currency.
The party legally responsible for importing goods into a country. Outpost acts as IOR in the countries we cover.
IOR covers the import. Merchant of record covers the sale and the payment. You can use one, or both together.
Accurate product data, including description, origin and value, and making sure your products meet the destination country’s rules.
Tell us where you want to ship, and we’ll confirm what’s live.
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