Key features
- Precollect customs charges: Integrate Prepay into your systems to provide accurate and guaranteed duty and tax calculations to your customers upfront.
- Boost satisfaction and loyalty: Eliminate unexpected charges to enhance the customer experience under your brand. Offer Zonos' streamlined DDP experience to all of your customers.
- Simplify compliance management: Offload the complexity of managing post-collection payments and international tax compliance.
How Prepay works
A Prepay integration consists of three main components:
- Your platform’s billing system
- Your platform’s or partner's fulfillment system
- Zonos API
When a client books a shipment in your system, call Zonos' Landed Cost API to bill them a full landed cost instantly. Complete the order to Zonos, and we become the only party to settle duty and tax with from that point on. Call Zonos for the label, use our dashboard to fulfill, or ship with a certified partner, and Zonos will be billed for the actuals post-clearance.
Use cases
Prepay is designed to support a wide range of logistics use cases:
- Shipping carriers: Use the API to bill clients' duties and taxes as early as needed.
- Freight forwarders: Collect duties and taxes from your shippers at the time of fulfillment to increase cash flow.
- 3PLs and consolidators: Enhance your service offering by incorporating Zonos' tax IDs, allowing your clients to ship everywhere without compliance headaches.
- Postal services and logistics providers: Leverage the API to develop your own DDP program and compete with the express carriers.
Design an integration
- Sign up: Speak with our sales team to create an account.
- Implement Zonos API: A Zonos solutions architect will be with you every step of the way. View our user guides below to get familiar with the required workflows.
Get started with Prepay
Boost your cash flow by collecting customs charges before export.
Zonos Prepay is a billing solution tailored for the supply chain industry, enabling the precollection of duty and tax on international orders and completely mitigating the negative cashflow and risk associated with these shipments. Prepay enables shipping carriers, freight forwarders, 3PLs, consolidators, postal carriers, and other logistics providers to accurately bill duties and taxes during the fulfillment process and prior to export.