Aura
Calculation and Compliance Engine (AC2E)
Successful global trade requires accurate data across three critical areas: duty & tax calculation; prohibited & restricted goods screening; and denied parties screening. These functions are integral within Kona v2 and accessed via that API.
What is it?
The Aura Engine covers three of Hurricane’s core cross-border services provided within Kona v2.
Duty & tax calculation, prohibited & restricted goods screening and denied parties screening.
Delivered Duty Paid Solution
These API services can be accessed individually or via a single combined API call within Kona v2.
Hurricane’s Kona API can be seamlessly integrated into any front end or back end.
A front-end integration allows carriers, retailers and marketplaces to offer their clients a landed cost calculation or Delivered Duty Paid solution (DDP), and also offers the possibility to flag prohibited and restricted goods and/or denied parties before shipping or even before the order is completed.
What does it do?
the ACCE provides the following solutions within Kona v2:
Manage international taxes and duties
Easy
Calculations
Calculates the duty rate, tax rate, duty payable and tax payable in the currency of the sending or receiving country.
Prohibited & Restricted Items
Denied
Parties
Why is is important?
Regulatory events including the EU’s abolition of the VAT exemption on low-value items, the introduction of the EU’s Import One-Stop Shop (IOSS) and the Import Control System 2 (ICS2), as well as the Type86 requirements in USA mean that accurate duty and tax calculations and rigorous compliance screening are requirements to succeed in global cross-border trade.
Key
Features
- A key and integral part of Kona
- Currency conversion
- Multi-lingual
- Speed – a single call can take as little as 100 milliseconds
- Real-time checking on prohibited & restricted items and denied parties
Key
Benefits
- Complete transparency of cost at checkout
- Avoid fines & other penalties for non-compliance
- Reduced returns
- Improved operational efficiencies
- Enhanced customer experience
What our
Customers say
Ed Ayyad, Director of International at EVRi, said:
“EVRi is committed to providing our customers with the best possible experience and a key part of this mission is ensuring parcels are able to move seamlessly on to their final destination.
“Achieving this requires the adoption of best-in-class technology and we are therefore delighted to announce that we have chosen Hurricane to be our global strategic partner for the provision of cross-border data solutions.”
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