Frequently Asked Questions
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Have a question about how LandedCost.io can help your business? We’ve compiled answers to the most common questions we receive about global shipping costs, HS codes, and API integration.
Frequently Asked Questions
Have a question about how LandedCost.io can help your business? We’ve compiled answers to the most common questions we receive about global shipping costs, HS codes, and API integration.
LandedCost.io is a JSON-based landed cost calculator API that provides accurate landed cost calculations for over 220 countries. Our API is a useful solution for online businesses interested in selling merchandise internationally.
A landed cost calculator API calculates the “landed cost” of shipping merchandise from one country to another. The landed cost includes customs duties, taxes, and fees by taking input data such as the product cost, product weight, product quantity, HS Code, shipping details, and destination country.
The LandedCost.io is owned and operated by Vine Global Solutions, Inc., a Delware USA corporation founded in 2008. Vine Global Solutions, Inc. is headquartered in Midvale, Utah, USA.
Yes, our API can be integrated with various e-commerce platforms to provide accurate landed cost calculations during the shopping cart and checkout process. We also offer a Woocommerce plugin that is pre-integrated with our API.
To get started, you can sign up for an API key on by clicking on this link.
Yes, we offer a 7-day trial period for testing our API.
We offer technical support to assist with any issues or questions you may have regarding our API. You may reach out to our support team by emailing us at admin@landedcost.io.
We strive for 100% accuracy for each landed cost calculation. We run hundreds of daily automated tests against our landed cost calculator API to verify data accuracy and performance requirements are met. The data sourced in the calculator comes from a variety of commercial sources and publicly available sources.
The duty rates updates are checked every 15 days for new updates for our supported countries. In most cases, duty rates do not change very often, but our automated collection service continuously scans updates. When updates, our data experts review the data before its published to the API for public usage.