Zonos Duty and Tax , 162 reviews

Overall rating
4.9
Counts per rating level
  • 90% of ratings are 5 stars
  • 4% of ratings are 4 stars
  • 1% of ratings are 3 stars
  • 2% of ratings are 2 stars
  • 4% of ratings are 1 stars
What merchants think

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Merchants highly recommend this app for its user-friendly approach to international shipping, simplifying duty/tax calculations and providing transparency. Many appreciate the easy setup and dedicated customer service. The app has been praised for aiding in international business expansion and improving the customer journey by presenting customs information upfront. It also assists in creating shipping labels and documents, saving merchants time. It's seen as a transformative tool in international shipping, offering full control over costs.

September 1, 2021

I rarely leave a negative comment. I was so excited about this app. I tried to install it and I had a question about something. I sent an email to support team. Almost 24 hours later I called because I did not receive any response to email. This makes me worry because if I need to get in touch with the support team for an important issue, I do not know how long that will take. We use a lot of apps for our store and every single one of them provides excellent customer service. I really would love to use this app because it looks like this is the only app that is available on Shopify. I understand it may take more than 24 hours to respond sometimes but they should have sent an acknowledgement email at least. There is no chat option, you can’t reach out to support through the number they provide… I hope things get better so that we can use the app. If that happens, I will be sure to modify my review here.

Broccati
United States
3 months using the app
June 9, 2021

Hands down, a must have. There's nothing worse than shipping to a customer overseas and receiving hate mail in return because, unbeknownst to them, they have to pay their local taxes and duties to get their order released and delivered to them. Zonos took all of the guess work out of international shipping for us the seller, and more importantly for our customers. It's ability to provide transparency to our customers of their final cost is priceless. We saw an increase in conversions internationally once the app was deployed. It also saved us on the administrative side trying to determine shipping and duties for international orders in advance in order to hold our customers hands and walk them across their purchase. Their support has been awesome. Setup and configuration was relatively straight forward and their support team was rock solid when we ran into any hang-ups.

Tackform
United States
3 days using the app
Edited July 20, 2020

Update: It still doesn't work for us, but customer service made a good effort to try & resolve it. I will upgrade my review for that. Totally a good service if your products are standardized. Our product sizes are simply too large and complicated for Zonos. We will have to continue to use Advanced Shipping Rules and give a warning for Int'l customers.

The landed cost did not work for us. We have a store with extensive items, many package sizes and weights, with different rules, tags, and more. This was all set up in ShipStation and Advanced Shipping Rules before I joined the company. I really, really wanted this app to work and spent a lot of time & effort trying to make it work. Perhaps it would, for a company with a simpler & more standardized catalog. It may partially be our fault, that sizes & weights are not stored on the product themselves, but on the product tags. I would give it 5 stars if it integrated with ShipStation and was able to pull data & tags from them. Hoping for this feature in the future.

Luxe Auto Concepts
United States
About 2 months using the app
May 27, 2022

Zonos has been a huge help in fulfilling international orders. We can't thank Shawn R. enough for his assistance in getting us started and being so accessible via email or Zoom calls to guide us through the process and help with answering questions.

The Reading League Shop
United States
About 1 month using the app
Zonos replied June 13, 2022

Thank you for your honest feedback. Shawn is great and we are glad he make your onboarding experience easier. We look forward to assisting you as you continue to ship cross-border.

Edited July 20, 2021

Started off a little rough as we installed Zonos Duty & Tax setup to comply with new EU rules effective 7-1-2021, but the team was able to work with us and get us through some obstacles. We are still going to give it some time to see if the app is effective in accomplishing our needs, but we are optimistic.

Affliction Clothing
United States
21 days using the app
August 26, 2022

We bought this AP and it didn't work. I contacted support and they said I needed a special API from Shopify which only comes with the top-end Shopify plan or $20 a month. I got the $20 a month API and it still didn't work. I contacted support and I got the below response. I would not recommend this AP to anyone. Typically with new stores we have an initial call, to see if Zonos would be a good for your international initiatives. Then we would get you in contact with our onboarding team to make sure everything is integrated accurately to avoid any complications. We don't provide any support for self-installs unfortunately. We do have a pricing agreement in place that all of our customers sign when integrating our services. We charge $1,000 for the initial setup fee, and then our pricing is transactional based after that. I wouldn't be able to provide you with any technical support, but I'm happy to get an agreement in place so we can get our onboarding team involved. They would be able to run through the configurations and do some tests to ensure everything is working properly.

T.E. Inc
United States
8 days using the app
Zonos replied August 29, 2022

We appreciate your feedback. We understand your frustration and would love to see if we can find a solution that would work for you. We apologize for the negative experience you and will work to improve that in the future.

September 21, 2021

Horrendous and confusing 3 weeks of trying to get this app set up- there is nothing easy or straight forward about it as advertised. Waste of time.

The Wild Horse Club
United Kingdom
5 days using the app
Zonos replied November 2, 2021

Thank you for your feedback and for providing us an opportunity to resolve the issues you had with your installation. When we last heard from you everything was set up and working as intended, please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any additional concerns - we're here to help!

December 4, 2020

WORST experience I have ever had. First, the only "support" you receive is on how to get charged an additional $150 on top of the monthly fee and transaction fees, to assist you during the setup. Once I had everything set up correctly and launched my boutique, I lost 90% of conversions at checkout because the ZONOS app was calculating the WRONG fees for VAT and Duties, showing customers 4 to 10 times the actual amounts which resulted in abandoned carts and most probably forever lost customers. I usually do not take the time to write reviews when they are negatives, but this time I wanted to prevent other entrepreneurs to lose so much money and effort to a defective product and terrible customer service.

H Y P A N E S E
United States
5 days using the app
Zonos replied December 28, 2020

We appreciate you providing us an honest review, and we take all feedback we receive seriously. As a result, we are no longer charging customers the installation fee. We recognize and apologize that you did not receive the assistance you needed in a timely fashion. We hope you will give us a second opportunity to have our Technical Support team work with you to configure your store correctly so that customers are seeing accurate duty and tax calculations. Best wishes and take care.

Edited December 5, 2020

Couldn't install app and all support does is bill your account, they don't help with anything other than asking if you read the documents.

Lake Superior Linen
United States
About 17 hours using the app
Zonos replied December 28, 2020

Thank you for your honest review. We reached out via email and phone to help configure your account further without additional fees but you expressed that you were no longer interested. We're sorry your first impression was not satisfactory, but we're happy to assist should you change your mind and decide to give us another try.

August 25, 2022

Shawn and the Zonos team got everything up and running quickly and with ease. It was a pleasure to work with them and would recommend them for anyone looking for assistance with international shipments.

DisposableGowns.com
United States