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    ePAL Cross Border Calculator

    N/AN/AePAL Global’s “Cross Border Calculator” is an API plus a WooCommerce plugin & a Shopify plugin that automates the calculation of ‘fully landed cost (VAT, customs duties and all related costs), and the Customs product classification for international shipments. Integrated into the WooCommerce checkout, as a Shopify pre-checkout plugin,or a custom web store, it displays fully landed costs to customers, preventing surprise fees and package refusals. Automated Product classification…N/A

    Floship

    Score1 out of 10
    N/AFloship is a logistics technology company that provides end-to-end global fulfillment and logistics solutions for eCommerce brands and large-scale crowdfunding campaigns, offering cross-border logistics, with international warehousing, global shipping and returns management, and multi-brand management.N/A
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    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsePAL “Cross Border Calculator” is free to download & install or integrate with. It comes pre-loaded with credits for €5,000 worth of cross border transactions. After that, ePAL charges 1.5% of basket value with a cap of €1. This includes all calculations, compliance checks, shipping options and customs documentation. No additional charges. No mandatory subscriptions. No minimum contract or spend.
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    ePAL Cross Border CalculatorFloship
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    1.0
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    User Testimonials
    ePAL Cross Border CalculatorFloship
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    ePAL Global
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    Floship
    I feel you should AVOID FLOSHIP AT ALL COSTS - in my experience, we have a USD 137,978 loss and counting; they have charged my card for $10,000+ without consent multiple times. I personally recommend AVOIDING THEM AT ALL COSTS. I was originally approached by Floship to provide fulfillment services for a Kickstarter campaign. After being provided a full cost simulation and in-person advice, it was my experience that all support disappeared once fulfillment should have begun. In my experience, our clients have been severely inconvenienced through ineffective and late shipping practices. I feel we have burned a significant amount of time and money in correcting this; to the extent that we will look forward to just shipping ourselves and/or using better alternatives such as Easyship in the future. I feel they do not provide any visibility to their costs which I believe are entirely inflated (e.g. more than $50 USD quoted as import tax for a $3 shipment). It is my experience that they need to provide receipts for their services charged. [...] In my experience, having not dealt with Floship for several months, they have now attempted to charge a card we removed from their website. I believe this implies that they keep your payment details stored separately and record your CVV and other sensitive information. I have since canceled the card since they haven't stopped, and we do not owe them any money. [...] I feel that Floship's complete hostility at the suggestion of any wrongdoing indicates the awful experience I feel you will also have if you work with them. It is also my belief that their responses do not attempt to address our concerns [...]. I feel our prior requests for support, transparency regarding postage receipts, and general work orders have been largely ignored until I spoke out publicly. [...]
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    ePAL Global
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    Floship
    • I believe that all costs were hidden with 0 visibility. For example, I was charged a 3% transaction fee and 3% card fee with no other payment options. Shipping costs are provided to you up to 3 months later, but in my experience, no receipts are provided.
    • I feel that customer service is non-existent. In my experience, my emails went unanswered unless they are actively soliciting.
    • In my experience, additional services such as pick packing inflate costs drastically making our costs 60% underquoted.
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    Usability
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    Floship
    I give Floship a one out of ten because there is no functionality, and I believe costs are deliberately hidden to obfuscate.
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    Support Rating
    ePAL Global
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    Floship
    I feel that Floship support is hostile, and did not regularly answer emails.
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    Alternatives Considered
    ePAL Global
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    Floship
    Easyship is a much better alternative; we selected Floshi, I feel, as a costly mistake.
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    Return on Investment
    ePAL Global
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    Floship
    • Negative: Cost to us of over 130K USD
    • Negative: Shipments and packages delayed by more than 28 days
    • Negative: Complete loss of trust and goodwill for customers
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    Screenshot of Example basket showing the basket-level tax & customs duty calculationScreenshot of Example basket showing the optional product-level tax & customs duty calculationScreenshot of ePAL portal showing the Product Classification screenScreenshot of ePAL portal showing the merchant's transactions and feesProduct screenshotScreenshot of ePAL portal showing the multi-level (default and fallback) multi-provider configuration