PRICING
Pay for what Forto carries
Starter shows you what cross-border requires. Growth collects the landed cost at checkout. Pro makes Forto the taxpayer — it registers, files and pays. Enterprise takes the rest, and is set up with you.
STARTER
Free
Shipping first. Duties and tax handled when you grow.
Start freeFORTO HANDLES0 OF 2
- —Duties at checkoutCollected with the order, paid at the border
- —VAT under Forto's numberForto registers, files and pays
Your customers pay duties and tax at the door.
- Live rates in Shopify checkout (CCS)
- Forto carrier pool — economy services
- DAP shipping + label generation
- 50 labels / month
- HS codes on your customs paperwork, up to 500 variants
- Prepaid wallet — approve payments once
- —No BYOC carrier slots
- —No returns portal
- —No API access
- —No threshold monitoring
GROWTH
$39/mo
Landed cost collected at checkout
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- Duties at checkoutCollected with the order, paid at the border
- —VAT under Forto's numberForto registers, files and pays
You file your own VAT — Forto tells you where and when.
- Everything in Starter
- Threshold monitoring — Forto tracks the countries and US states with a registration threshold and tells you the month you cross one
- 1,000 labels / month
- 500 DDP labels / month
- Forto HS-classifies up to 2,000 variants
- 3 BYOC slots
- Branded returns portal
- Warehouse connections for 3PLs, set up on request
- Read-only API
PRO
$199/mo
Forto registers, files and pays the tax
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- Duties at checkoutCollected with the order, paid at the border
- VAT under Forto's numberForto registers, files and pays
Under Forto's number up to $25k of cross-border sales a month; past that line, your own.
- Everything in Growth
- Managed VAT — Forto as your IOSS intermediary, on approval
- 10,000 labels / month
- 10,000 DDP labels / month
- Forto HS-classifies up to 5,000 variants
- 10 BYOC slots
- Embedded returns portal + exchanges
- Full REST API
- Guided onboarding
ENTERPRISE
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Cross-border handled end to end
Book a demoFORTO HANDLES2 OF 2
- Duties at checkoutCollected with the order, paid at the border
- VAT under Forto's numberForto registers, files and pays
Under Forto's number on a coverage line set with your account team; past that line, your own.
- Everything in Pro
- Baked-in pricing: duties and taxes included in your product prices
- Unlimited orders
- Your whole catalog HS-classified by Forto
- Full REST API
- Onboarding with your account team
COMPARE
Every limit and every fee, in one table.
Capability
Starter
Growth
Pro
Enterprise
Monthly price
Free
$39
$199
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What Forto handles
Nothing — duties paid at the door
Duties at checkout
Duties at checkout + VAT filing
Duties at checkout + VAT filing
Orders / month (labels; own-carrier orders on Enterprise)
50 labels
1,000 labels
10,000 labels
Unlimited
DDP labels / month
—
500
10,000
Unlimited
Duties at checkout (DDP)
—
✓
✓
✓ + baked-in pricing
Variants Forto HS-classifies
500 · for customs paperwork
2,000
5,000
Whole catalog
Forto as taxpayer of record
—
—
Up to $25k / month
Negotiated line
Registrations in your own name
—
You file — Forto says where and when
Only sales outside the line — you file
Only sales outside the line — you file
Managed VAT — Forto as IOSS intermediary
—
—
Apply — on approval
Composed per deal
Labels
Carrier rate + $0.07 per label
Carrier rate + $0.07 per label
Carrier rate + $0.07 per label
Per order form
BYOC — your carrier account
—
3 slots · your rate
10 slots · your rate
Unlimited slots · your rate
Duty calculation fee (on duty + tax)
—
10%
9%
7%
VAT-carried fee (on VAT Forto carries)
—
—
4%
3%
Returns portal
—
Branded
Embedded + exchanges
Embedded + exchanges
API
—
Read-only
Full
Full
Carrier rate: what Forto charges for the carrier’s service on its own accounts, on the label before you buy. Duty and tax themselves pass through to carriers and tax authorities. The carrier’s own charge for clearing duties at the border is the same on every plan and is paid by your customer inside the duty-paid price at checkout, exactly as the carrier bills it; Forto’s calculation fee is never charged on it. Plans and Forto’s service fees are in USD: billed through Shopify when you install from the Shopify App Store, or by Forto through Stripe when you paid Forto first. Labels are paid from your wallet, in its currency. Yearly billing applies to plans Forto bills. Enterprise is invoiced by your account team.
LIMITS
What happens when you reach a limit.
Orders — labels
When the month's labels are used (50 on Starter, 1,000 on Growth, 10,000 on Pro), buying labels waits for the next month — or move up a plan. Checkout, tracking and monitoring keep working.
Variants classified
Nothing is billed. The rest of your catalog quotes at an estimated (high) duty, or uses the HS codes you set yourself — exact duties on a large catalog is what Enterprise is for.
Forto as taxpayer of record ($25k a month on Pro)
Never billed, never blocked. Coverage stops for the rest of the month and orders continue under your own VAT number or with duties paid at the door. More coverage means Enterprise, with wallet reserves behind it.
Countries and destinations
No limit on any plan — every destination Forto covers is open on every tier.
FAQ
Questions about pricing.
What does each plan make Forto responsible for?
Starter: nothing. Your customers pay duties and tax at the door. Growth: duties at checkout. You file your own VAT — Forto tells you where and when. Pro: duties at checkout and VAT under Forto's number. Under Forto's number up to $25k of cross-border sales a month; past that line, your own. Enterprise: duties at checkout and VAT under Forto's number. Under Forto's number on a coverage line set with your account team; past that line, your own. “Duties at checkout” means Forto collects duty and import tax with the order and pays it at the border, so nothing is due on delivery. “VAT under Forto's number” means Forto sells as the seller of record and registers, files and pays the VAT under its own number, so you need no registration there.
What is the $25k a month on Pro?
Where Forto holds the registration, it is the taxpayer of record on Pro: it charges, files and pays the tax, and answers to the tax office for it. Pro covers up to $25k of your cross-border sales a month; orders past that continue under your own number or with duties paid at the door. It is a limit, never a charge — like a credit line, it bounds how much tax Forto answers for on your behalf each month.
What is a quoted order?
A quoted order is a cross-border order Forto priced at checkout that shipped on your own carrier account. Only Enterprise contracts ship that way, so only they count quoted orders.
Do you charge per label?
Yes — $0.07 per label on every plan, on top of the carrier rate; the price is on the label before you buy, paid from your wallet. When the month's labels in your plan are used, buying labels waits for the next month or a higher plan; checkout, tracking and monitoring keep working. When your own carrier account wins routing, your carrier bills you your negotiated rate and Forto charges $0.07 per label on plans it bills; on a plan Shopify bills there is none.
What is the VAT-carried fee?
A percentage of the VAT Forto carries under its own registration (Pro 4%, Enterprise 3%). VAT filed under your own number carries no fee.
Why is Enterprise booked instead of self-serve?
Enterprise sets a coverage line backed by your wallet reserves and prices your whole catalog exactly. Pricing is standard — sized by your catalog's variant count, with the coverage line set with your account team at the size you need — but a person sets it up with you before you install, so your first screen is already Enterprise.
Can I switch plans?
Any time between Starter, Growth and Pro. Plan changes take effect immediately — Stripe prorates the difference on your next invoice, in both directions.
Is there a long-term contract?
Not on Starter, Growth or Pro: monthly or yearly billing, cancel any time, and you keep access until the period ends. Enterprise runs on a term agreed with your account team.