How do I estimate the real landed cost before I promise a delivery date and price?
The short answer
Landed cost equals product cost plus international freight plus destination duty (driven by your HS code) plus local VAT/sales tax, model all four before you set a price, not after. Use a free calculator (Zonos, or your courier's built-in tool) to estimate duty and tax by destination and HS code, and remember de minimis thresholds mean some low-value orders skip duty entirely, which changes your math by country. Get this wrong and you find out a market is unviable only after your first month of orders, when it's much more expensive to fix.
A quick summary to orient you. The real value is below: the resources worth your time, from people who've actually done it, not us.
Here are the resources
Hand-picked from around the web, each with a note on why it earns your time. India-specific ones carry a badge.
Why we picked it
Explains how showing the full landed price (product plus duty plus tax) at checkout, not just a converted product price, protects both conversion and margin per market.
Why we picked it
A practical support-doc-level explainer of how duty calculation actually plugs into Shopify Markets via a third-party shipping app, useful once you're troubleshooting real checkout numbers, not just reading concept guides.
Why we picked it
Pricing for a market only makes sense once you know the landed cost, this free calculator estimates product plus duty plus tax plus shipping by destination and HS code before you set a price.
