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The cost of using ShipEngine depends on the plan you choose and the services you use. ShipEngine offers three plans: Free, Advanced, and Enterprise. The Free plan allows you to access discounted carrier rates and essential API features, but has a limit of 50 shipments per month. The Advanced plan lets you add your own carrier accounts and use the complete API features, and charges you based on the number of shipments you make per month. The Enterprise plan is customized for large-scale businesses or partners that need more than 25,000 shipments per month, and offers additional benefits such as dedicated account management and branding options. You can see the pricing details and compare the plans on their website.

ShipEngine handles customs and duties by providing you with the necessary information and tools to create international shipments. You need to include the required customs declarations data in your Create Shipments request, such as the contents, value, weight, and harmonized tariff code of each item in the package. ShipEngine also tells you the estimated duties and taxes for each shipment, based on the destination country and the terms of trade code. You can choose to pay the duties and taxes yourself (DDP) or have the recipient pay them upon delivery (DDU). For more information, please see their documentation on international shipments.

Yes, you can use your own carrier account with ShipEngine. ShipEngine supports connecting your own accounts for USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL Express, and many other carriers. You can also use ShipEngine's discounted rates for USPS and UPS if you don't have your own accounts. To connect your own carrier account, you need to go to the Carriers settings page in your ShipEngine dashboard and click on the Add a Carrier Account button. You will need to provide your account credentials and other information depending on the carrier. For more details, please see their documentation on setting up carriers.

Some of the most popular carriers on ShipEngine are USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL Express, and Canada Post. These carriers offer a wide range of domestic and international shipping services, such as priority mail, ground, express, and economy. ShipEngine also supports many regional and specialty carriers, such as OnTrac, LaserShip, LSO, APC, and GlobalPost. You can see the full list of carriers and their features on their website.

Yes, they do offer international shipping. ShipEngine allows you to ship to more than 200 countries and territories around the world. You can use any major carrier that ShipEngine supports, such as USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL Express, and Canada Post. You can also use GlobalPost, a modern and economical way to ship internationally from the US. ShipEngine provides you with the necessary information and tools to create international shipments, such as customs declarations, estimated duties and taxes, and electronic customs submission. For more information, please see their documentation on international shipping.

You can track your shipments with ShipEngine by using either the Label ID or the Tracking Number. The Label ID is a unique identifier that ShipEngine assigns to each label that you create via ShipEngine. The Tracking Number is the identifier that the carrier assigns to each package. You can use the Track a Package endpoint to get real-time tracking events for any package, even if you created the label outside of ShipEngine. You can also use the Track by Label ID endpoint to get tracking information for labels that were created via ShipEngine. For more information, please see their documentation on tracking.