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Happy August from Yakit! Last month, we talked about conversion optimization and how Yakit helps boost your top-line revenues with our international shipping platform. Shipping costs are a big swing factor in selling to customers globally. Having the right/low shipping rates can make or break your sales.... Yakit has your back when it comes to managing your shipping costs. Not only do we have the lowest rates in the industry for duties paid shipping, but we also have the best destination coverage, multiple service levels and AI driven tools to help you optimize your costs further. Check out this blog to see how Yakit can lower your shipping costs and boost your bottom line. Happy merchandising! Jaggi Ayyangar CEO, Yakit https://hubs.ly/H0dfV_10

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The holiday season is here! Online merchants see huge traffic at this time from their overseas customers. The average order values of these cross-border customers is higher than that of a domestic order. And yet, we see disclaimers on international shipping pages leading to shopping cart abandonment and unhappy customers. Yakit has you covered. Our guaranteed duties & taxes paid service combined with full insurance and end-to-end tracking ensures that your customers always return to your site for international shipping. Chat with us today @ www.yakit.com and we’ll show you how.

You do not have to find a French ‘platform’ in my opinion. What you need to do is find a drop shipper that will utilize technology and believes that shipping to other countries in a DDP fashion is best. No matter where you ship from, when a parcel leaves a facility and the final duty and taxes have not been addressed, it means that the Drop Shipper’s choice of carriers to deliver that international parcel is going to be involved in the duty and tax collection in some format. ...If the final mile delivery agent is a postal authority, they will leave a card or make a collection payment at the time of the delivery. If it is a ‘big box’ carrier such as FedEx or UPS, they will contact the customer and request payment of duty and taxes plus an ancillary fee or fees for processing the shipment through their customs agent. Either way, the costs are an unknown to the end buyer of your product and many times this is the point where the buyer says ‘I refuse the shipment ‘ in which case it is sent back to you’re Drop Shipper with high return fees potentially. The ability now exists through the use of Yakit, International shipping platform for Ecommerce for your Drop Shipper to include the duty and taxes up front along with the shipping costs and provide one all inclusive rate for delivery to the door of the end consumer. Yakit is secure with complete end to end tracking, and full insurance coverage included on every shipment. Shipping in a DDU scenario is unpredictable and leaves way to many loose ends for end consumer, whilst Yakit takes those ‘loose ends’ out of the equation and secures a stable and happy delivery outcome for the end consumer and the Drop Shipper.

THIRD PARTY FULFILLMENT ( 3PL) SHIPPING WITH YAKIT During their growth phase, online merchants may begin to consider using a Third Party Fulfillment (3PF) house to handle their warehousing, pick/pack, shipping and order processing including returns....Continue reading

Yakit is changing the way 3PF ( Third Party Fulfillment) companies can relate to their clients for international shipping. If you are involved in the fulfillment industry and want to b e able to help your customers ship in a duty and tax prepaid environment, please reach out to Yakit to learn more. www.yakit.com.

No Hassle International Shipping for Shopify Merchants. Guaranteed duties and taxes along with shipping cost in your shopping cart. Learn how to setup Yakit app for your #Shopify account > http://bit.ly/1Wkp58c

SELF SERVE INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING IS HERE! More and more data driven organizations are enabling potential customers to come into their site, find what they want and make a purchase. From home loans to hotel rooms, exposing data to buyers and allowing them to choose what direction to take or buy is now the norm these days. Data and technology have impacted our world in many positive ways and the days where you may have had to ‘make big decisions’ on which ‘big box carriers’ ...to use for overseas shipping are coming to an end. Online merchants, drop shipping guru’s and expanding Marketplaces’ are all about one thing, making the sale and getting it delivered. For all of you online merchants out there who have gone to the trouble of ‘wording’ your website around the fact that your international customers are going to have to deal with the extra hassles of paying duties and taxes once the shipment arrives to their home country, the time is now to start editing those websites. Yes, you can ship your parcels in a duty and tax prepaid platform. Yes, you can print labels and master box your orders to geographic hubs, and Yes, you can take advantage of data driven technologies to send your shipments duty and taxes prepaid, insured, and with full tracking. The service is here, it is easy to sign up for, and the best part is https://www.yakit.com/ does not tie you down to a contract or minimum shipment count to achieve great rates. You heard that right, freedom from being tied to one carrier. Self Serve International Shipping is here. Imagine your website stating the following: XYZ company provides international delivery and will calculate your duties and taxes along with your shipping charges, when you check out of the shopping cart. More sales, less hassles for overseas consumers, and straightforward pricing transparency will help decrease your lost sales due to shopping cart abandonment. Yakit makes all of this possible. Think of how important it will be to your business, to be able to ship your products within an environment where your customers are able to literally ‘complete the full transaction’ without any loose ends. Yes, the package will be delivered and there will not be any further payment required of your customer, this is the world of Yakit.

POSTED ON QUORA TODAY: There are many thousands of reliable products that are available for starting or continuing or growing your drop shipping business. It is important to do your homework though and make sure that the products you are selling are actually the products you are advertising. It only makes good business sense to do this. From a logistics perspective, as a drop shipper who owns no product nor owns a fulfillment center, but only 'owns' the sale/customer...you sh...ould think about what type of delivery experience you want to offer your clients. Most drop shippers do not think about the cost of customer acquisition...yes that cost that occurs when people click on your product but do not buy, or they have bought and in particular with foreign transactions, now have to pay duty and taxes on the item you had sent to them. Think about folks, if you were buying something online and you pay the price but then have an 'unknown' charge still to contend with, is this really a great business model? If I could counsel drop shippers on one thing, it would be 'control the delivery experience' and offer shipping that includes the duty and taxes. You can do this very easily now days, just check out International shipping platform for E-commerce and organize a demo of their services. Your future drop shipping profits and customer acquisition costs will be impacted positively if you do.

Any item over about 15.00 dollars USD will have duty and taxes added onto it by your delivery partner. If you use the USPS and think that packages just go through duty and taxes free, that is not the case either. Canada Post does collect 'fees' for inbound international shipments. When your customer has to deal with an open ended situation like duty and taxes and has to pay another company to complete the delivery process, it can create negative feelings about the transaction... and potentially your product. I highly suggest using a service like International shipping platform for Ecommerce to send parcels to Canada, that way the duties and taxes are prepaid and all your customer has to do is sit back and receive their parcel right to their door. The lifetime value of a happy customer is why Yakit is a great service for those companies that want to grow their overseas client base.

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