Passport Shipping

I heard about Passport from my 3PL when I was looking for international shipping, and my experience with Passport could've hardly been any better. All duties are taken care of when shipping to Europe from my American warehouse. The ability to not be bothered with taxes and import fees frees up so much time. It also takes care of reporting since it's Passport's details that get logged with border customs teams. Love it.

The only reason I deducted 1 star is due to some of their last-mile partners (the local delivery companies that work with them) have horrible online reviews and unfortunately the same has been communicated by my customers. I would say the successful delivery rate is close to 95% with almost all issues pertaining to the delivery company and not the customer. I'm completely at peace with a 95% delivery rate and it doesn't bother me, but a better customer experience in the cases where they didn't get the package or the local delivery company was uncooperative would've definitely been ideal. But I reckon all logistics companies dealing with independent last-mile delivery companies are facing this issue, so I won't hold this against Passport. Definitely recommend.

Passport makes international shipping possible for brands who aren't otherwise ready to expand in that direction. The shipping speeds are not the fastest (hence the 1 star knockdown), but that's really what makes the service affordable. I would definitely recommend for anyone looking to slowly test the international waters. Their customer service is super helpful, as well.

Very easy to set up, and support is active. It does seem to take ages to get to the customer internationally though. We have some orders that take about a month and then we can't file a claim because it eventually shows up.

Overall Review: Is Passport 100 percent perfect and on autopilot? No, I wouldn't say that. But they do allow/enable us to ship internationally all over the world to many customers that we wouldn't have been otherwise able to.

Biggest issues are typically when stuff gets lost or there are issues with final mile carriers/customs. Much harder to deal with those issues than with US based, domestic carriers. Of course that is to be expected but it still seems like this could be streamlined a bit. Also, handoffs between Passport CS and our own CS can sometimes be a bit clunky. Also probably to be somewhat expected as they can't know 100 percent everything about our brand.

They're open to being held accountable and have also been open to giving more regular custom reporting to help us evaluate effectiveness of the partnership. Be prepared to spend some time vetting and evaluating the successfulness of opening up international options-this is not an autopilot type of situation all the time.

Good solution for cross-border orders, but I think the services have room to improve delivery times.

Passport shipping is good with communication regarding shipping updates and any news regarding delays if any. The customer service team responds promptly. Competitive rates and easy checkout processes. Country-specific automized currency conversion for customers would be a great enhancement. Canadian shipping could be faster. Easy to integrate with the Shopify store. Overall good experience.