Our Solutions
Hurricane provides the most complete suite of solutions to meet today’s challenges and opportunities
Named after Preseli Bluestone – the stone used to build Stonehenge and believed by some to be the first sign of AI in that it could predict the sunrise on the solstice.
Bluestone is our deep-learning AI that drives our auto classification function.
Knowing that a product has the right description and HS6 code has never been more important.
Take shoes as an example where classifying and assigning a commodity code can be a real pain depending on whether it has a combined leather and tweed upper and part rubber/part leather sole that is less than 24cm in length but not intended for sporting use.
With over 100 billion lines of English text read and understood, Bluestone was built to understand detailed product language and nuances to identify descriptions and match them against the most appropriate customs commodity description and subsequent HS6 code.
Confirmed classifications are constantly fed back into the system to improve the accuracy of Bluestone and future classifications.
These confirmed classifications are also used by Zephyr as part of its genome-based search algorithms.
Aura is the API that covers duty and tax calculations, prohibited and restricted goods screening and denied party screening.
Named after The Titan Goddess of the fresh, cool, morning breeze bringing change, Aura was developed to improve data and compliancy to improve any businesses value offering and grow their business.
Aura can match products using a client’s HS6 code and product description, simplifying the process which used to require a unique code from Hurricane’s Bluestone solution.
An API call via Aura is very fast with throughput tested at 640 transactions a second equating to 55 million a day.
One single call can perform the 3 critical cross-border functions (duty and tax calculations, prohibited and restricted goods screening and denied party screening) and present the data back in real-time.
Our solution ensures a seamless performance that won’t affect the efficiency of the checkout process.
The name comes from the light, fast, agile wind, that carries us between continents, epitomising the speed and ability of the API.
Designed from the ground up to be lightning quick and based off algorithms used in Gene research, our Zephyr API takes a new approach to a real-world problem.
It allows the efficient checking and completion of cross-border shipment pre-advice data submitted to Postal Authorities by customers (retailers/marketplaces).
Zephyr checks that the HS6 code and descriptions are validated and, if not, will return a status code indicating where the issue is.
It will provide suitable clearance information including a valid description, a most likely HS6 and 8 and 10-digit export and import codes. It’s easy to integrate and blisteringly fast.
We liken Zephyr API to the tributaries of a river, validating and assigning consignment data to provide the necessary customs clearance information allowing the bulk of items to flow into the river in rapid time.
Zephyr is a game-changing solution where the volume of parcels being shipped around the world increases exponentially every year.
Our Duty, Tax and Compliance extension on the Magento® marketplace enables retailers to use the 4 core pillars of Aura to improve their cross-border offering:
- Calculate Duties & Taxes
- Classify products
- Screen for Prohibited & Restricted items
- Screen for Denied Parties
Our extension can be found here on the Magento Marketplace, or here on the Adobe Exchange.
The Duty, Tax & Compliance extension is simple to use, easy to customise, light-weight and blisteringly quick.
Our extension gives retailers the tools to successfully navigate cross-border eCommerce, by reducing the risk of parcels being delayed in customs, as well as avoiding unnecessary costs.
We help retailers provide cost transparency towards their customers, reducing returns and abandoned carts.
Gives customers a seamless cross-border experience, increasing the number of sales and returning customers.
