Magento offers a number of features to help you sell more to international shoppers, but Magento shipping options are very limited.
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Magento itself, handles around $100 billon of sales across its platform proving it’s a trusted and useful tool for eCommerce, especially as it’s free to get started.
That being said, as a self-hosting eCommerce platform, getting set up can be tricky if you don’t have the technical knowledge needed, but if you have a developer supporting you then you can really make the most of its customisable options.
Features for selling internationally on Magento
One big benefit for users of Magento’s platform is that it does help you to appear local to your audience, wherever they are in the world.
This includes options such as:
- Automatic tax calculation with VAT for customers in EU member states
- Automatic currency changes based on your shopper location,
- Managing local tax rates from country to country.
- You can also configure the platform to list the countries that you ship to, which, of course, will be the biggest factor in your global expansion.
Sadly, the costs of Magento can increase quite quickly as you add on more features, so it does pose an expensive option for a lot of SMEs.
It’s therefore best for larger companies with a lot of resources to make the most of its feature-rich options inhouse, which may be too complex for most small start ups.
Meanwhile, Magento does give you access to things like large product catalogues, native product bundles and groups, cross-selling and upselling features. With all the extensions and addons, you can customize your eCommerce website with almost whatever you need, but you will need a developer to make the most of these options and keep them updated.
Magento shipping options
Like all other e-commerce platforms, Magento has limited shipping solutions built in, only currently supporting US delivery logistics. So, if you’re based elsewhere in the world, you are going to have to find a third party Magento shipping solution. Make sure your chosen Magento shipping supplier can:
- Integrate their shipping platform (labeling/tracking tools) with Magento easily.
- Provide a range of international Magento shipping solutions to meet your customers expectations i.e. low cost services (slower) and premium (quicker) services. Plus services that are common to them i.e. in some countries home delivery is less popular than delivery to a locker or collection point.
- Provide Delivery Duty Paid shipping options (where your shoppers on your Magento store can see how much customs charges will be and pay for them upfront).
- A returns service that suits the shoppers in the countries you are shipping to from your Magento store.
Asendia's fulfilment and international shipping services for Magento stores
We handle the fulfilment and shipping of international orders for some of the biggest etail brands in the world and many smaller online stores too. Some of these are on Magento, Shopify, BigCommerce and enterprise platforms.
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