Eight ways to ship duty-paid from the UK. One is free.
Most tools solve one piece, or take a cut of every sale for doing all of it. Teleship does the checkout, the paperwork, the tax representation and the delivery.
What it costs
Platform fees a year, for your volume.
Move the sliders to your store. Shipping and customs charges are left out: every option charges for its own.
Your saving with Teleship
Against Global-e, at 200 orders a month and £85 average order, before shipping.
£13,440–£26,880a year
How these figures are calculated
- Swap Global
- 4% × £85 products × 2,400 orders
- Shopify Managed Markets
- 3.25–3.5% × £112 full cart × 2,400 orders
- Zonos
- $2,500–$4,000 + ($2 + 10% × £17 duties and taxes) × 2,400 orders
- Global-e
- 5–10% × £112 full cart × 2,400 orders
2,400 orders a year. Full cart = £85 products + £10 shipping + £17 duties and taxes (20% of products) = £112; Shopify Managed Markets and Global-e take their percentage on the whole cart.
Platform fees only: shipping and customs charges are excluded everywhere. Swap from its published comparison, Zonos from its pricing page and Shopify App Store listing, Shopify Managed Markets from Shopify's international pricing page, Global-e as quoted to merchants, October 2026. Duties at checkout with Teleship need Shopify's carrier-calculated shipping rates (Shopify Grow or above).
3x international sales in six weeks
A UK sports retailer switched to Teleship from a duty-paid platform on 1 September 2026. By mid-October its international orders had tripled, 102 to 319 in six weeks: cheaper duty-paid options opened lower-value orders and markets it had switched off, with duties collected at checkout instead of at the door. Ask us for the detail on a demo.
The Teleship guarantee
Whatever we quote your customer at checkout is what you pay.
If customs charges more than we quoted, Teleship absorbs the difference. Your customer never gets a bill, and neither do you.
Quoted at the point of sale
Duty, VAT and the EU €2 fee are worked out per product, from its HS code and origin, before your customer pays.
Billed exactly that
The duties and taxes on your label are the duties and taxes on your statement. No customs surcharge after delivery.
Line by line
Base rate, duty, VAT and customs on every shipment in your Teleship account, ready for your accountant.
What you get
Eight things a duty-paid setup has to do. At a glance.
Click a name in the table for the full 1-to-1 comparison.
Landed cost management: duties and taxes shown and collected in your checkout
Nothing to pay at the door
EU IOSS and VAT: registration, filing, representation
Duty, VAT and customs charges: transparent, no reconciliation
Shipping labels included
Carrier choice: economy and express, duty-paid
Global duty-paid coverage
HS codes and import-document checks
Competitor details from their public pricing pages, documentation and Shopify App Store listings, 14 October to 2 November 2026; check them before deciding. Each head-to-head page has the full detail, including coverage, pricing and app ratings.
1-to-1 comparisons
Compare Teleship with the tool you use now. One page each.
Postal duty-paid service
Teleship vs Royal Mail PDDP
Royal Mail's postal duty-paid option on its International Tracked and Standard services, to 18 destinations; everywhere else Royal Mail delivers duties unpaid.
One speed, 18 duty-paid destinations, and you work out the duties yourself: the overseas authority sets the final figure, and Royal Mail invoices you weekly for the duty, the tax and a handling fee per item once parcels are delivered.
The full comparisonShopify + Global-e
Teleship vs Shopify Managed Markets
Shopify's partnership with Global-e: Global-e becomes the merchant of record for your international orders and handles duties, taxes and delivery, for 3.5% of every order.
3.5% of every order (3.25% on Plus) plus Shopify Payments and currency fees, with VAT added for UK stores; your international sales become B2B sales to Global-e; labels are DHL Express or FedEx only, and refunds are not yet available for UK stores.
The full comparisonLanded-cost software
Teleship vs Zonos
Landed-cost software: a duty and tax quote for your checkout, used on your own carrier accounts.
From $2,500 a year before the per-order fees, and you still bring and manage your own carriers.
The full comparisonMulti-carrier shipping app
Teleship vs Easyship
A multi-carrier shipping dashboard; duties at checkout are a paid tier.
Duties are estimates, not guaranteed; there is no IOSS service, so you register for your own number; duty-paid delivery only works with the express couriers that support it, and plans are billed in US dollars.
The full comparisonCross-border platform
Teleship vs Swap Global
A cross-border platform that guarantees duties and taxes at checkout and takes a percentage of every order; you stay merchant of record.
A flat 4% of product value on every order, billed in US dollars; Swap files the taxes under its own local tax IDs while you remain the merchant of record.
The full comparisonMerchant-of-record platform
Teleship vs Global-e
Global-e becomes the seller of record: its checkout replaces yours and it pays you out later.
5–10% of every cart, their checkout instead of yours, and the customer relationship goes with it.
The full comparisonEU VAT and IOSS compliance
Teleship vs EAS
EAS Project, an Estonian EU VAT compliance service: IOSS registration and monthly filing for your store and, since July 2026, a postal duty-paid route from the UK to the EU through Estonia.
A monthly IOSS plan plus per-order fees, billed in euros; duties are not added to your checkout; duty-paid delivery is one postal route to the EU only, with no express option and nothing for the US or the rest of the world.
The full comparisonSee it on your own store.
Thirty minutes with your products and your destinations: live rates, duties at checkout and a label from your admin.