Duties at checkout: the post-purchase surprise that kills repeat orders
Collecting duties at checkout costs you conversion once. Not collecting them costs you the customer, the parcel and the support ticket.
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International posts
Everything we have written on international, 9 posts, newest first.
9 posts on international
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Duty-paid pricing and the markets it opens
DDP is usually discussed as a checkout setting. It is really a pricing decision, and it decides which countries are worth selling into at all.
Localizing content without duplicating your catalog
The instinct is to clone: a second store, or a second product record per country. Shopify separates availability, price and language from the product itself so you do not have to.
Multi-currency rounding and the prices that look wrong
How Shopify rounds converted prices, why rounding cannot set the right price, and when to set local prices yourself for your top markets.
Multi-store governance on Shopify Plus
Shopify gives you the organization layer: users, billing, reporting. Everything that actually drifts between stores is yours to govern, and drift is what makes the fifth store cost more than the first four.
Payment methods by market, and the conversion they unlock
A local payment method only appears when the customer is in a supported country and the currency is eligible. That one rule means your pricing decision quietly decides which methods your buyers ever see.
Tax registration thresholds, and when selling abroad gets complicated
A threshold is a date in your future, not a permission slip. The question is which of your markets has one you are about to cross, and which never had one at all.
Translation and localization beyond currency
Switching the currency is the first ten percent. The rest is menus, metafields, notification emails, size guides and the tags your filters are built on.
Shopify Markets or a store per country?
One storefront serving every market is the right default. Only a short list of things justifies the alternative.
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