One place to hold the product data your U.S.-bound shipments depend on
Shipping to the U.S. increasingly depends on what you can say about the product itself, not just the parcel. Zonos partnered with Royal Mail to provide Verified Accounts so their shippers have somewhere to keep that information.
Duty prepayment and product data are two separate things
Duty prepayment works as it always has: Royal Mail collects the duty on your U.S.-bound parcels, and you do not need a Zonos subscription or account for that.
A Verified Account is how you supply the product data the U.S. asks for on certain goods. It sits alongside your Royal Mail duty arrangement rather than replacing any part of it.
For Royal Mail shippers, a Verified Account is a free Zonos account that stores your product data. It is not used for duty billing—Verified Accounts with some other postal operators are, but that is not how Royal Mail uses them. You sync or upload your catalogue once, Zonos flags the items that need more detail before they can ship to the U.S., and you fill in the gaps — answering product-specific questions and uploading documents such as certificates of origin.
Here's how it works:
Sign up for a Verified Account via the Royal Mail referral link, so your account is connected to the post automatically.
Get your products into Zonos by connecting a store for automatic syncing or uploading a CSV.
Review the items that need more information to ship to the U.S.
Add the missing details and documents so they travel with your shipments.
Connect your shipments to your catalogue, so the goods in each parcel are matched to the data you added.
The agencies that control what is allowed in, such as the FDA and CPSC. Their review reaches postal shipments on October 22, 2026, and can start applying to your shipments before then.
The tariff programs that decide what you pay, such as Section 232 on steel and aluminum, which asks where the metal was originally made — the country of melt and pour for steel, or smelt and cast for aluminum.
Free trade agreements, which can reduce duty on qualifying goods under $2,500 USD when the supporting documentation travels with the shipment.
Verified accounts
Verified Accounts for Royal Mail
One place to hold the product data your U.S.-bound shipments depend on
Shipping to the U.S. increasingly depends on what you can say about the product itself, not just the parcel. Zonos partnered with Royal Mail to provide Verified Accounts so their shippers have somewhere to keep that information.
Duty prepayment works as it always has: Royal Mail collects the duty on your U.S.-bound parcels, and you do not need a Zonos subscription or account for that.
A Verified Account is how you supply the product data the U.S. asks for on certain goods. It sits alongside your Royal Mail duty arrangement rather than replacing any part of it.
What is a Verified Account?
For Royal Mail shippers, a Verified Account is a free Zonos account that stores your product data. It is not used for duty billing—Verified Accounts with some other postal operators are, but that is not how Royal Mail uses them. You sync or upload your catalogue once, Zonos flags the items that need more detail before they can ship to the U.S., and you fill in the gaps — answering product-specific questions and uploading documents such as certificates of origin.
Here's how it works:
What the U.S. asks for
The requirements reach both sides of U.S. entry:
Next steps
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