Ref. Dropship.EU

Sell It Before You Stock It, From Inside Europe.

We connect your store to suppliers already holding stock inside the EU, then route every paid order to them without you touching it. Your customer gets the parcel in days, at the price they agreed at checkout, with nothing waiting at the door.

Consignment EB-DS-4471

Origin

Destination

Lane

Customs Entry

Duty At Border

Transit

REF. EB-DROP

10+ STORES OWNED & OPERATED
27 EU MARKETS REACHABLE
0 UPFRONT STOCK REQUIRED
ICDL ECOMMERCE CERTIFIED
ICDL DATA PROTECTION CERTIFIED
10+ STORES OWNED & OPERATED
27 EU MARKETS REACHABLE
0 UPFRONT STOCK REQUIRED
ICDL ECOMMERCE CERTIFIED
ICDL DATA PROTECTION CERTIFIED

Ref. Border.2026

Two Identical Parcels. One Of Them Now Stops.

For years a cheap item posted from outside the EU slipped through duty free as long as it stayed under one hundred and fifty euro. That door closed on 1 July 2026, and the cost lands on whoever is standing closest to the customer.

Consignment A

Shipped From Outside The EU

DUTY
APPLIES

Duty relief under €150

REMOVED

Flat customs duty per item

€3.00

Import VAT

FROM €0.01

EU handling fee

EXPECTED NOV 2026

Declaration and HS code

REQUIRED

Typical door to door

10 TO 25 DAYS

Full tariff schedule

AROUND 2028

MARGIN EXPOSED

NO. EB-A / IMPORT

Consignment B

Shipped From Inside The EU

EU
ORIGIN

Duty relief under €150

NOT RELEVANT

Flat customs duty per item

€0.00

VAT

DOMESTIC OR OSS

EU handling fee

DOES NOT APPLY

Declaration and HS code

NOT REQUIRED

Typical door to door

2 TO 5 DAYS

Full tariff schedule

DOES NOT APPLY

MARGIN PROTECTED

NO. EB-B / INTERNAL

Drawn from the Council of the European Union agreement of 13 November 2025 and the regulation applying from 1 July 2026, which removes the €150 customs duty relief and applies a flat €3 duty per item on business to consumer parcels arriving from outside the EU. This is general public information rather than customs or tax advice, and your own position should be confirmed with a broker or an accountant.

Ref. Cost.Landed

What Is Left Once The Parcel Arrives.

Most people price a product against the supplier cost and stop there. The docket below shows what actually reaches your account after VAT, shipping and the border have taken their share, worked through on a typical order.

Your numbers

Your Price, VAT Included

€39.90

What The Supplier Charges

€14.50

Shipping You Pay Per Order

€4.20

Customer Country VAT Rate

IRELAND, 23%

Where The Stock Ships From

INSIDE THE EU

Landed Cost Docket

EU LANE

Selling price

€39.90

VAT collected

-€7.46

Net revenue

€32.44

Product cost

-€14.50

Shipping

-€4.20

Customs duty

€0.00

Handling estimate

€0.00

Left with you

€13.74

Margin on net revenue

42.4%

Workable margin

Duty applies at three euro per item on parcels arriving from outside the EU. The handling estimate covers the EU fee expected from November 2026 and is an assumption rather than a published rate. Payment processing, returns and advertising sit outside this docket, so treat the result as a planning estimate.

Ref. Trace.Order

What Happens After Somebody Clicks Buy.

None of this needs you at a keyboard. It is the sequence we wire up once, on the day the store goes live, and it runs the same way on order four as it does on order four thousand.

T + 0m

ORD-RCV

Order lands in your store

Payment clears and the customer sees a confirmation carrying your branding. Nothing about the supply side is visible to them, then or later.

T + 2m

SUP-ALLOC

Routed to the supplier holding that stock

The item is matched to whoever has it, with address, variant and shipping method attached. Where two suppliers carry the same line, the one closest to the delivery country takes it.

T + 3h

PICK

Picked and packed in an EU warehouse

The stock is already inside the customs union, so nothing waits on an import declaration. Packing can carry your own inserts where the supplier supports it.

T + 5h

LBL-GEN

Label generated, tracking pushed back

The tracking number writes itself into your store and into the customer notification. You are not copying reference numbers between two browser tabs.

T + 1d

DEP-HUB

Leaves the dispatch hub

Onto a domestic or intra EU service. No broker, no duty line, no message asking your customer for a payment before release.

T + 2 to 5d

DLV

Delivered

Stock counts adjust and the order closes. Returns route back to the supplier’s EU address under the fourteen day withdrawal right your buyer has by law.

Not sure your category has EU supply behind it?

Tell us what you want to sell. We will come back with the suppliers that exist for it inside the union, or say plainly that they do not.

Ref. Lane.Transit

Where The Stock Sits, And How Long It Takes.

Windows move by supplier and by carrier, so read these as the ranges we work to rather than a promise. What matters more than the exact day count is that every lane below starts inside the customs union.

Dispatch Region

Serving

Typical Transit

Customs Entry

Ireland

Republic of Ireland

1 TO 2 DAYS

NONE

Benelux

Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg

2 TO 4 DAYS

NONE

Germany

Germany, Austria, Czechia, Poland

2 TO 4 DAYS

NONE

France

France, Belgium, northern Spain

2 TO 4 DAYS

NONE

Iberia

Spain, Portugal

3 TO 5 DAYS

NONE

Italy

Italy, Slovenia, Croatia

3 TO 5 DAYS

NONE

Nordics

Sweden, Denmark, Finland

3 TO 6 DAYS

NONE

Great Britain

England, Scotland, Wales

3 TO 6 DAYS

DECLARATION

HOME & INTERIORSGARDEN & OUTDOORBEAUTY & PERSONAL CAREBABY & CHILDRENPET SUPPLIESDIY & TOOLSTECH ACCESSORIESFASHION & LIFESTYLE

Great Britain has sat outside the EU customs union since Brexit, so a parcel crossing that border carries a declaration in either direction. Food, supplements, medical devices and anything needing certification carry rules of their own, and we will tell you during intake whether a category is worth the compliance load before you commit to it.

Ref. Comply.EU

The Compliance Side. Nobody Puts On A Landing Page.

Selling to European consumers carries obligations that apply whether or not anybody has told you about them. Marketplaces have been enforcing several of these since 2024, and a listing that misses them can be pulled without much warning.

GPSR / EU 2023/988

Responsible person

Every consumer product placed on the EU market needs an economic operator established in the EU who is accountable for its safety. A seller sitting outside the union cannot fill that role personally, and the contact details have to appear on the listing itself rather than only on the box.

Covered In Setup

IOSS / To €150

Import VAT

The Import One Stop Shop lets VAT be charged at checkout and declared through a single monthly return, which keeps your customer from being asked for money at the door. It covers VAT only, so customs duty on non EU parcels sits on top of it.

Set Up With You

OSS / Union Scheme

Cross border VAT

Once you sell across EU borders past the distance selling threshold, VAT falls due at your customer’s rate rather than your own. The One Stop Shop return keeps that to one filing instead of a registration in every country you ship to.

Set Up With You

Consumer Law / 14 Days

Right of withdrawal

Consumers can return most online purchases within fourteen days without giving a reason. Your returns policy and your supplier agreement both have to survive that, which is a large part of why we prefer suppliers holding an EU return address.

Built Into Supplier Terms

Traceability / 10 Years

Product records

You need to trace a product back through the chain to whoever placed it on the market, and hold that record for ten years afterwards. Worth setting up on day one rather than reconstructing it under pressure later.

Documented Per Line

EPR / By Country

Packaging obligations

Extended producer responsibility for packaging and electricals is still handled country by country rather than centrally, so what you owe depends on where your customers are. We flag which markets trigger it before you start selling into them.

Reviewed Per Market

The General Product Safety Regulation has applied since 13 December 2024. Nothing here is legal or tax advice, and specifics get confirmed against your products and your markets during intake.

Ref. Query.Dropship

Questions We Get Before Anyone Signs.

Do I need an Irish or EU company before I can start?

Not in every case, though it makes the VAT and compliance side considerably simpler, and it is the cleanest way to hold the responsible person role yourself. We register Irish and EU companies as a separate service, so it can run alongside the store build rather than after it.

Can I still source from outside the EU?

You can, and for some products the maths still works. What changed on 1 July 2026 is that the duty relief for parcels under one hundred and fifty euro is gone, so three euro per item now lands on every direct to consumer parcel arriving from outside the union. On a low ticket product that can be most of the margin, which is why the docket further up this page exists.

What happens when a customer wants to return something?

EU buyers have fourteen days to withdraw from most online purchases without giving a reason, so the return lands with you whatever your supplier would prefer. We only connect suppliers who accept returns to an address inside the EU, because the alternative is asking your customer to post a parcel to another continent.

Which platforms do you connect?

Shopify, WooCommerce, Wix and BigCommerce for storefronts, plus marketplace listings on Amazon, eBay and Etsy. We run our own shops on the same platforms, so whether something is possible usually gets answered from having tried it rather than from a documentation page.

How long before the first order can ship?

For a store that already exists with products chosen, connecting suppliers and routing is a matter of days. Building from nothing takes longer, mostly because choosing what to sell deserves more time than people give it.

Do you hold the stock yourselves?

No. Stock sits with vetted suppliers who dispatch it, which is what keeps you out of warehousing costs. What we hold is the relationship, the performance record on each supplier, and the routing that connects them to your store.

Ref. Intake.Dropship

Ready to start dropshipping?

Tell us the category you want to sell into and where your customers are. We'll come back with the EU supply behind it and what the landed cost looks like.