Know what the border costs
before each order ships
Across the Canada and US border, your customer can be asked for duty, tax and fees before the parcel is handed over. Othermile checks every order before it ships and holds the costly ones for your OK.
Free for 100 orders a month. No card needed.
What would your customer pay when the parcel arrives?
Pick what you sell and where it ships. The estimate appears here.
The problem
What one order across the border can cost
Your store charges the customer one price. Then your printer or carrier charges you for shipping, and the governments charge duty and tax. Most stores only see these costs after the order has shipped.
$11.40
Lost on one order. The store charged $9.99 for shipping and the printer charged $21.39 to ship it.
$18.32
Paid by a Canadian customer when a $35 shirt arrived by mail. By courier it would have been $0.
3
Changes to US tariffs on Canadian goods between August 22 and September 29, 2026.
700+
US products that Canada put extra tariffs on, starting September 8, 2026.
What happens to an order
Every order checked in seconds
- 1
The order comes in
From your store, your printer or the API. For example, a $35 shirt going to Calgary, with $9.99 charged for shipping.
- 2
Each way to ship it is priced
Your printer by mail, the same printer by express, and a printer in Canada if you use one, each with what the shipping really costs.
- 3
Duty, tax and your limits are checked
For each option, Othermile adds the duty, tax and carrier fees, then compares the result with the limits you set.
- 4
The best option is used
Here, the printer in Canada. You make $11.14 more, your customer pays nothing when it arrives, and the decision is saved.
How it works
Set up in three steps
Connect your store or printer
Shopify, WooCommerce, Printify, Printful, BigCommerce and more connect in a few clicks. Anything else works through Zapier, Make, a spreadsheet or the API.
Set your limits
For example: the most you will lose on shipping, the lowest profit you accept on an order, and the most a customer should pay in duty and tax.
Approve the exceptions
Orders within your limits go out as usual. The others are sent to your phone, with each way to ship them and its cost side by side.
Try it now
What will this parcel cost at the border?
The same engine that checks orders. Free, with no sign up.
Your estimate appears here.
Pick a product and price, then check.
Not a store?
The same estimates, for manufacturers, shoppers and developers
Manufacturers and importers
See what tariffs cost you over a year, product by product, and what a proposed change would do before it starts.
See the scanner
Shoppers
Find out what you will pay at the door before you order from across the border. Free, with no account.
Check a purchase
Developers and AI agents
Get border estimates and order checks in your own software, through a REST API, SDKs, or a server for AI assistants (MCP).
Read the docsPricing
Start free, pay when it saves you money
Start free. No card needed. Cancel anytime.
Free
$0 a month
- 100 orders checked a month
- One workspace with every connection
- Phone approvals
- Records kept 30 days
Seller
$19 a month
- 1,000 orders checked a month
- Checks keep running past your plan
- Email, text and push alerts
- Records kept one year
Growth
$49 a month
- 5,000 orders checked a month
- Three workspaces
- Your whole team as approvers
- Records kept three years
Agency
$149 a month
- 25,000 orders checked a month
- Ten client workspaces
- Your brand in the app
- One bill for every client
Prices in USD, before tax. Checks over a plan cost $4 per 1,000, and extra workspaces $12 a month each. Have a promotion code? Enter it at checkout. Compare every plan
Questions
Common questions
Is this customs advice?
No. Othermile gives estimates from official rules and applies the limits you set. You stay the importer or exporter of record, and a licensed customs broker should confirm anything you are unsure about.
Where do the rules come from?
From the governments that set them: the US and Canadian tariff schedules, Canada's surtax orders on US goods and the Bank of Canada exchange rate, updated every morning, so a change reaches your orders the same day. Each change is checked before it applies and listed on the Border news page, and every order decision is kept in a signed record.
Do I need to change how my store charges shipping?
No. Keep your flat rate or free shipping. Othermile compares what you charged with what the order really costs and tells you when they drift apart.
Which platforms work today?
Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Squarespace, Wix, Square, Ecwid and Whatnot connect directly, and so do the printers Printify, Printful, Gelato, Prodigi and Gooten, ShipStation, and the warehouses ShipMonk, ShipHero and ShipBob. Connect as many as you have. Anything else connects through Zapier, Make or n8n with the universal connection, a spreadsheet, or the API, and AI agents can use the hosted MCP server. Etsy, eBay, Amazon, TikTok Shop, QuickBooks and Xero are coming next.
Is my data safe?
Your connections are encrypted, each business's data is kept separate from every other, and everything is hosted in Canada. We never sell data.
What is a CUSMA claim?
Goods that qualify as made in Canada, the US or Mexico can cross with lower or no duty when the seller claims preference under the trade agreement. Othermile shows when a claim would save money and when a product is on a list where it no longer helps.