One World, One Border · US ↔ EU

Sell to the world.
Buy from anywhere.
Without the cross-border guesswork.

37+Validation Datapoints
US↔EUBidirectional Corridor
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Industry View
"Many businesses… hesitate to expand internationally due to uncertainty around costs, regulations, and market requirements."
Samarah Gemaque · Industry Perspectives →
What's Happening
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Accuracy Proof Initiative - Now Open
We're inviting active US↔EU sellers to run their next shipment through our calculator, then share the actual customs invoice. We compare, document the gap, and publish the result publicly. No commitment, no signup, just real data making cross-border estimates more trustworthy for everyone.
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May 2026
Partners
Early Design Partners - Now Open
We're working with a small group of distinctive brands to shape GlobeCart before launch: early access, direct founder input, and priority onboarding. Collaborate now, sell when we go live. A handful of founding spots are open.
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2026

Real progress, in the open.

37+ validation conversations
Sellers & operators
US ↔ EU corridor defined
Bidirectional
Landed cost calculator launched
Live & free
Accuracy Proof Initiative open
Now running
Seeking 10–15 design partners
Spots open

One marketplace, both sides protected.

GlobeCart is built for the two people every cross-border order depends on: the brand selling it, and the buyer receiving it.

For Brands & Sellers

Sell into new markets, keep more margin.

  • Keep 88 to 92 percent of every sale, not 65 to 75 percent
  • Know your true landed cost and real margin before you list
  • Replace the Shopify, carrier, and broker patchwork with one platform
  • Reach buyers who want distinctive products they can't get at home
  • Trust and protection built into every transaction, so the risk isn't yours alone
For Buyers

Shop the world, with zero surprises.

  • Discover unique, proven products you can't find at home
  • One honest final price at checkout, duties and taxes included
  • No surprise fees at the door, no refused-package headaches
  • Every order protected, with clear resolution if anything goes wrong
  • Cross-border shopping that finally feels as safe as buying local

Where cross-border breaks.

Follow a single order across the border. Trust breaks at every stage, for both the seller and the buyer.

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01
Listing & Pricing
The seller can't see true landed cost, so they guess. Margin is at risk before anything even ships.
02
Checkout & Border
The buyer is hit with surprise duties and VAT at delivery. Refused packages cost the seller shipping both ways.
03
Delivery & Tracking
No visibility across the border. Neither side knows where the order is, or who is accountable when it stalls.
04
Returns & Resolution
A return costs more than the product. Disputes drag on with no structure. Trust collapses on both sides.

Five tools, no one accountable. The barrier was never cost, it's uncertainty.

Uncertainty is expensive.

It doesn't show up as one line item. It shows up as the growth, and the trust, that never happened.

The Cost of Uncertainty Itemized
Expansion delayed months of ground lost to rivals
Margin eroded profit you never priced for
Plans abandoned markets left on the table
Customers lost first orders that never repeat
Buyers drop off shoppers who stop crossing borders
Operational drag time no one ever gets back
Total The growth, and the trust, that never happened.

Loss is tolerable. Uncertainty is not.

The same global reach. None of the guesswork.

What changes when trust is built into the marketplace, instead of left for you to figure out.

Current platforms GlobeCart
What you keep 65 to 75 percent, after a 25 to 35 percent all-in cut 88 to 92 percent, full stack included
Who carries the risk You do, when an order breaks at the border Protected on both sides
How many tools Four to six, reconciled by hand One marketplace that owns the outcome
When something goes wrong No one is accountable, disputes drag on Structured resolution at every step
For the buyer Surprise duties and fees at the door One honest price at checkout

Six trust layers, one living system.

Every order runs through all six. Together they are the trust infrastructure at the core of the marketplace, the part other platforms never built.

The Trust Layers
Duty VAT Ship + FX One price $165.60
01
Pricing
The full landed cost, calculated upfront. Duties, VAT, shipping, and FX, so the seller knows their margin and the buyer sees one final price.
HS code Cleared
02
Compliance
Customs, HS codes, and country rules handled automatically. No manual classification, no unexpected duty charges at the border.
Pre-ship At delivery
03
Product
Condition verified before shipping and at delivery. A clear evidence chain means fewer disputes and far less fraud.
US EU Live tracking
04
Delivery
Real-time tracking across every border. Both sides see exactly where an order is, and who is accountable at each step.
Return Keep + refund Local hub
05
Returns
Structured, scenario-based resolution instead of a margin drain. Returns become a decision the system handles, not a loss.
Buyer Seller Held until delivered
06
Protection
Payment held until delivery is confirmed. Every transaction is protected, for the seller and the buyer alike.
Tap any layer to explore it. Tap the core to auto-cycle.

See your real cost before you sell.

Duties, VAT, shipping, and FX, in one clear breakdown for US ↔ EU. Watch it work, then try it yourself. Free, instant, downloadable.

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Product categoryHome & Decor
DestinationGermany
Order value$120.00
Duty$5.40
VAT$23.90
Shipping$14.20
FX & fees$2.10
Landed cost$165.60
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Unprompted feedback from real sellers What sellers are saying

Consistently 8 to 12% lower than what we actually paid.

Seller, US

Calculator said 15% duties. Customs hit me with 23%.

Seller, US ↔ NL

Your calculator sounds like a good tool for that.

Seller, US

Whoever solves predictability wins, not whoever is cheapest.

Seller, US ↔ EU

Start free.
Grow with us.

Current platforms take 25-35%. We take 8-12%. Full cross-border stack included. Pay only when you sell.

Starter
For sellers testing cross-border for the first time
$0 /mo
Free for 2 months · then $29/mo + 12% per transaction
  • List products on GlobeCart marketplace
  • Full landed cost calculator (duties, VAT, shipping, FX)
  • Buyer sees one final price - no surprises
  • Up to 50 transactions/month
  • Basic compliance automation
  • Email support + onboarding guide
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No credit card required · 2 months free
Brand
For brands going global through GlobeCart
$249 /mo
+ 8% per transaction · min $15K GMV/mo
  • Everything in Growth
  • Branded storefront on GlobeCart
  • Multi-corridor support (US↔EU, UK, Asia)
  • Custom API integrations
  • Dedicated account manager
  • Advanced compliance workflows
  • White-label options
  • SLA guarantee
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Best for brands doing $15K+/mo across corridors

Built for sellers who want clarity.
Built for buyers who want truth.

For Sellers & Brands

Stop losing margin to guesswork.

  • See your real profit per SKU, per country - before you sell
  • Weekly margin packets: know exactly why margin moved and what driver caused it
  • Scenario planning: remote vs localized EU fulfillment, side by side
  • Smart returns: automated keep-it / ship-back decisions by SKU value
  • Expand to new markets without rebuilding your entire ops stack
  • DDP made accessible - reduce the multi-party coordination burden
  • Seller protection built into every transaction
For Buyers

Shop globally. Pay exactly what you expect.

  • Full price shown at checkout - duties, taxes, shipping, everything included
  • No surprise charges at delivery. No customs holds. No refused packages.
  • Easy returns - clear process, fair refunds, no runaround
  • Buy from international sellers with the same trust as local brands
  • Buyer protection built into every transaction
  • Track your order from checkout to doorstep, across every border

Starting with US ↔ EU,
then the world.

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United States
● Wedge
🇩🇪
Germany
● Wedge
🇳🇱
Netherlands
● Wedge
🇫🇷
France
● Wedge
🇦🇪
UAE
○ Expansion

From listing to delivery.

LISTProduct live
01
List your products

Sellers and brands list products on GlobeCart. Set your price - our system handles duties, VAT, shipping, and FX automatically.

Product$26.00Duty + VAT + Ship$12.50$38.50Zero surprises
02
Buyer sees the real price

Full landed cost at checkout - duties, taxes, shipping, everything included. One price. No surprises at delivery.

VerifiedDeliveredLIVE
03
Verified & shipped

Product condition verified before shipping. Real-time tracking across borders. Buyers know where their order is.

OKInspect$PaidSettleEveryone protected
04
Protected delivery

Second inspection at destination. Product delivered. Everyone is protected.

Built on real evidence.

Not assumptions - validated patterns from real cross-border operators, brands, and sellers across multiple ICP segments.

37+
Seller & Buyer
Datapoints
8
In-Depth
Interviews
28
Evidence
Signals
#1
Pain: Pricing
Uncertainty

What sellers actually said.

From 37+ conversations with real cross-border operators, brands, and sellers.

It's just scary for small and new business to mess up anything that has the word duties or taxes in.
Early-stage seller · US
It is death by small percentages layered on top of each other.
FBA seller · US ↔ EU
Data exists. Reconciling it is the pain.
Cross-border operator · mid 5-figures/mo
Cross-border works great when tax is boring and invisible. It falls apart when it becomes the customer's problem.
Ecommerce operator
EU has not been so great experience... unclear what gonna come next. Loss is tolerable. Uncertainty is not.
Multi-million dollar international seller
Refused deliveries are brutal - you eat the shipping cost both ways and often lose the product too.
EU seller · IOSS operator
My return rates hit 20% in Canada before I switched away from DDU.
International dropshipper
600 packages returned... warehouse was non-compliant. Carrier didn't notice for about a year.
Mid-scale ecommerce operator
Not possible to handle by themselves. It's a team work. That's why there are forwarders in the world.
Logistics operator

What the experts are seeing.

Perspectives from sourcing specialists, trade advisors, logistics operators, and ecommerce professionals on the problem we're solving.

We're actively speaking with experts across sourcing, customs, tax, logistics, and ecommerce.

What We're Learning

Across conversations with sourcing specialists, operators, and trade professionals, a consistent theme keeps emerging: businesses don't just need cost estimates, they need confidence in those estimates before committing to international expansion. This is one of the reasons GlobeCart is built around transparency, validation, and trust on every cross-border order.

Prasad Reddy, Founder and CEO of GlobeCart
Prasad Reddy
Founder & CEO

I started GlobeCart because I lived the problem.

It started with something that should have been simple. I wanted to order a few products that weren't available in India, found them after a long search on Amazon Global, and then the seller couldn't deliver to my address. I tried other products, other platforms. Same wall every time. I couldn't trust the seller, the quality, or whether it would even arrive. So I gave up on the order. Then I started hearing the same story from people around me, and I realised this wasn't my problem. It was everyone's.

I've always been wired this way: when something's broken, I can't leave it alone until I understand why. So I went and talked to 37+ sellers, operators, and logistics professionals across the US and EU. The thesis became clear:

The problem isn't cost. It's uncertainty. And the trust layer that fixes it simply didn't exist.

So I started building it. I've taken GlobeCart from that first frustration to a validated thesis, a full architecture, and a live product, from the ground up. I believe the most valuable infrastructure of the next decade won't move goods or data. It'll move trust.

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Investor
Angel, VC, or strategic partner
Buyer
Shopping internationally, want transparency