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Tell a guarantee from an estimate
Shipping DDP solves the customer's problem. Whether it also protects yours depends on one thing: whether the number shown at checkout is a projection or a commitment.
Coverage
What a guarantee covers that an estimate doesn't
What separates a guarantee from an estimate: coverage beyond duties and taxes, who carries liability on the customs declaration, and what it takes to hold a price from checkout to doorstep.
Liability
Which providers actually absorb the risk
Ten questions to put to any DDP provider before you sign — what is actually guaranteed, who carries the risk when a calculation is wrong, and where coverage stops.
Accuracy
How a DDP price keeps up when duty rates change
Duty rates, thresholds and fees change without notice, and a DDP price is only as good as the rates behind it. How the Landed Cost Engine recalculates against current rates for the destination.
Where DDP actually gets switched on
Account settings, platform requirements, and how the handful of markets that cannot accept DDP are handled for you.
