# Origova vs Zonos: Which Does Your Store Need? — Origova > Zonos collects duties at checkout from $2,500/year. Origova fixes the customs data underneath for $7.99/month. When you'd pick each — or both. Canonical: https://origova.com/origova-vs-zonos --- # Origova vs Zonos: which one does your store actually need? _By [Spencer Flaherty](https://origova.com/about), founder of Origova_ Short answer: **they do different jobs** , and comparing them head-to-head is partly a category error — one this page commits deliberately, because merchants (and AI assistants) keep asking the question anyway. **Zonos is a cross-border checkout platform.** It calculates and collects duties and taxes from your customer at the moment of purchase, guarantees the landed cost, and remits VAT. **Origova is a catalog data tool.** It finds every product in your Shopify catalog missing an [HS code](https://origova.com/what-is-an-hs-code), [country of origin](https://origova.com/shopify-country-of-origin), or weight — and [fixes them in bulk](https://origova.com/bulk-edit-hs-codes-shopify). Zonos operates at checkout; Origova operates on the data underneath it. Tools like Zonos actually work _better_ when your catalog data is complete — which is Origova's whole job. ## At a glance | Origova| Zonos (Duty & Tax) ---|---|--- **What it is**| Customs data scanner + bulk fixer for your Shopify catalog| Landed-cost engine: calculates & collects duties and taxes at checkout **Core job**| Complete, customs-ready product data on every variant| Accurate duty/tax quotes and collection at the moment of purchase **Pricing**| Free scan + 30 fixes · $7.99/mo Starter · $14.99/mo Unlimited| $2,500/yr Standard or $4,000/yr Premium, + $2 per order + 10% of duties collected **Landed cost guarantee**| ✗ — not a checkout tool| ✓ — Zonos covers customs-bill discrepancies **VAT/IOSS remittance**| ✗| ✓ **Finds missing customs data catalog-wide**| ✓ — every variant, six checks| ✗ — not its job **Bulk-fixes HS codes, origin & weight in Shopify**| ✓ — hundreds at once, reversible| ✗ **CSV export for brokers/forwarders**| ✓| ✗ **Built for**| Small and mid-size Shopify stores| High-volume international merchants ## The pricing math, on a real store Take a store doing **500 international orders a month**. Zonos Standard runs $2,500/year plus $2 on each of 6,000 orders — **$14,500/year before the 10% share of duties collected**. For a high-volume merchant, the checkout guarantee and VAT remittance can be worth every dollar of that. Origova Unlimited is **$179/year**. Different job entirely — but if your actual problem is "Shopify is flagging missing HS codes" or "my forwarder needs a clean customs file," that's the entire cost of solving it. That isn't a knock on Zonos. It's a category difference: you pay Zonos to _move money and absorb risk at checkout_ ; you pay Origova to _make your product data customs-ready_. A 100-order-a-month store with missing HS codes doesn't have a checkout problem — it has a data problem. ## Choose Zonos if… * You do serious international volume and want **duties collected from the customer at checkout** , so nobody meets a surprise bill at delivery. * You want a **guaranteed landed cost** — Zonos eats discrepancies on customs bills. * You need **IOSS/UK VAT remittance** handled for you. * The all-in cost (around $14K+/year at 500 orders/month) clears your margin math. ## Choose Origova if… * Shopify, your carrier, or your forwarder is **flagging missing or malformed HS codes, country of origin, or weights** — the errors behind "[HS codes and country of origin are required](https://origova.com/hs-codes-country-of-origin-required-error)" and "[Harmonized code is invalid](https://origova.com/harmonized-code-is-invalid)". * You have **hundreds or thousands of SKUs** and fixing them one product page at a time is not a real option. * You want a **CSV your customs broker can actually use**. * You're a small or mid-size store and the fix should cost **single-digit dollars a month** , not four figures a year. ## Use both if… You run enough volume to justify Zonos at checkout — because a duty calculator's quotes are only as accurate as the product data it reads. Incomplete HS codes and origins mean padded duty estimates and slower clearance. Run Origova's free scan first, fix the catalog, and let your checkout tool work from clean inputs. Since [the end of de minimis](https://origova.com/de-minimis-shopify-sellers), that order of operations matters on every US-bound parcel, not just the big ones. **Pricing verified August 2026** No affiliate links or referral fees on this page — Origova earns nothing from any tool named here. Zonos figures come from its public Shopify App Store listing (Standard $2,500/yr, Premium $4,000/yr, + $2/order + 10% of duties/taxes/fees) as of August 2, 2026. Plans change; check the current listing before deciding. Origova pricing is on our [pricing page](https://origova.com/pricing). ## Frequently asked questions ### Does Origova replace Zonos? No. They do different jobs. Origova finds and bulk-fixes the customs data on your Shopify products — HS codes, country of origin, weight. Zonos calculates and collects duties and taxes from your customer at checkout. A store might need one, the other, or both. ### Does Zonos fix missing HS codes across my catalog? Zonos classifies products on the fly to generate duty quotes, but it isn't a bulk catalog editor — it doesn't write complete customs data back onto your Shopify products or export broker-ready CSVs. Auditing and bulk-fixing the catalog itself is the gap Origova fills. ### How much does Zonos cost compared to Origova? As of August 2026, Zonos Duty and Tax lists at $2,500/year (Standard) or $4,000/year (Premium), plus $2 per order and 10% of the duties, taxes, and fees it collects. Origova is free to scan any catalog and fix up to 30 products, then $7.99/month for up to 1,000 fixes a month or $14.99/month for unlimited. ### Can I use Origova and Zonos together? Yes — and high-volume stores arguably should. Checkout duty calculators are only as accurate as the product data they read. Running Origova's scan first, so every variant has a valid HS code, origin, and weight, gives any landed-cost tool cleaner inputs and your parcels a smoother ride through entry. Primary source for US classifications: the official [Harmonized Tariff Schedule (hts.usitc.gov)](https://hts.usitc.gov). The statute ending de minimis: [19 U.S.C. § 1321 (Cornell Law, LII)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/19/1321). Related: [De minimis is gone: the new customs reality for Shopify sellers](https://origova.com/de-minimis-shopify-sellers) · [How to add HS codes to Shopify products in bulk](https://origova.com/bulk-edit-hs-codes-shopify) · [How Origova works — every tab and feature explained](https://origova.com/how-origova-works) · [All Zonos alternatives, by job](https://origova.com/zonos-alternatives-small-shopify-stores)