If you’re looking to grow your ecommerce business, expanding beyond your borders could be a great next step—but that means you need to figure out how to ship internationally.

To do international shipping right, you’ll need a strategy that works for you and your business. You don’t need to know everything about shipping, but you do need to understand the available options, and find an approach that will work again and again.

There are a lot of reasons you might not be shipping internationally right now. Maybe you’re just starting to consider it as an option. Or maybe you’ve even tried once or twice and you’d rather stick to your local or domestic market.

Selling beyond your borders can be an important growth area for your business, even if you only ship some products internationally, so it’s worth tackling the logistics head-on. Consider these figures:

• According to Oberlo, one out of every four people you see is an online shopper.
• Statista reports that retail ecommerce sales is going to grow from $3.53 trillion USD to $6.54 trillion USD in 2022.
• Statista has the average order value of an international sale at $147 USD. That’s 17% higher compared to an average domestic sale.
• Retailers who offer premium international shipping grow 60% times faster than those that don’t.

These figures show that online shoppers have come to expect international shipping, and ecommerce businesses are increasingly meeting that expectation. Shipping internationally creates an opportunity for stores like yours to sell to a larger audience.

Here’s what we’ll cover in this post so you can make better ecommerce shipping decisions and expand your business on your terms.

• Building an international shipping strategy
• Shipping internationally through Shopify
• What to charge international customers for shipping
• Finding country regulations
• Preparing packages
• Working with multiple carriers
• Pricing out your shipping