Crossborderit IOSS and DDP

What started out as the earliest solution to IOSS reporting, which worked really well seems to have now deteriorated in to a non-functional service. My integration stopped working in April 2024, in early September 2024 they alerted me to this (I should have noticed sooner, but the whole process is meant to be automated and it just slipped through my radar). They claimed it was because my version of the app wasn't updated and I needed to update permissions... which I can't do. The app developer has to push app updates, and they already had full permissions.
They were reviewing the problem... one month later I log in to pay my invoice. The app still isn't syncing data. A week later, still nothing, and no update from Cross Border IT. I'd been collecting VAT from my customers for months, and sending them off with my IOSS number, relying on CBIT to perform the service for which I was paying them €110 a month.
I finally give up, find a new provider, uninstall their app, and it's taken a further month for them to manually process the data so I can fulfil my tax obligations. I can only hope they fulfil their side of the contract and do declare the payment?
But basically avoid, there's more economical services out there for small business, who also provide a service which actually works, with timely customer service.

At the start, when everyone was running around like chickens with their heads cut off, along came Crossborderit with a simple(ish) solution. Yay!

We signed up at the very outset.

It wasn't always too clear what we were actually being charged and we put in a lot of work trying to reconcile our charges with what we had sold. We even had a letter from the Swedish tax authorities saying we'd possibly underpaid an item.

But hey-ho, it was still a solution!

Now I get an increase of 4 - or is it 500% in the charges?

I don't think so!

This would make our meagre sales into the EU actually cost us money. It wouldn't just reduce our profit, it would actually cost us money to sell into Europe.

I notice that Crossborderit say that they only have 2 negative reviews out of 400 daily users. I wonder when they made their count of 400? I wonder how many of those 400 are biding their time until the price-hike hits.

We will certainly be jumping ship for a more cost-effective solution.

Crossborderit just raised our monthly rate, so we're dropping to look for a more economical solution. I appreciate their support team, and we've worked together for about 2 years now, but the product/pricing match is just not there anymore.

Our store doesn't do enough EU volume to pay this premium for tax convenience, and other companies continue to provide a pay-as-you-go model.

Been Ok for 12 months but they've pushed the price to $99 per month, no options for small businesses. You need to be sending a lot to warrant this price and there are still better options. We now use EAS, way better value for us.

Some of my orders weren't showing up in Crossborderit. It took 6 weeks and a lot of back and forth with support before the developer finally discovered that there was a bug in their Shopify integration. The developer seems to be very uncommunicative and slow to find and resolve bugs -- the support team told me that the developer was unavailable for an entire month, and then it took another full month after they returned to resolve the bug. They seem to only have one developer so there's no redundancy if he's on vacation.

In combination with them increasing their prices to 99 euros/month, I definitely wouldn't recommend this service.