[SOS] How To Add A Fixed Amount Of Tariffs

Accounting & Taxes
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Topic summary

Small e-commerce businesses are seeking ways to add a fixed $15 tariff fee to US orders due to changing trade policies, while keeping product prices unchanged to remain competitive.

Key Requirements:

  • Display the $15 fee separately at checkout (similar to shipping fees) for transparency
  • Prevent the fee from being discounted by coupons or store credits
  • Maintain original product pricing

Current Obstacles:

  • Shopify’s native features don’t support custom checkout fees without a Plus subscription
  • Apps like “Magical Fees & Tariffs” require Shopify Plus to enable location-based fees
  • Tech support suggested overriding tax rates, but this lacks transparency and would misleadingly show inflated taxes

Status: The discussion remains unresolved with multiple merchants expressing the same need. Participants are frustrated by the lack of a simple “custom fee” option that could be applied as either a flat rate or percentage with clear labeling for customers.

Summarized with AI on October 27. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Hi,

The ever changing tariffs has really left us with no choice but adding a tariff to every US order. But instead of passing on the entire duties to the customers, which might push the price to an insane level for small brands like us, we like to just add a flat rate duties of $15 to each order to maintain a competitive price and absorb any outstanding amount as revenue loss.

I have read through every docs available on Shopify but haven’t find any useful instruction. I also tried apps like Magical Fees & Tariffs, but it would require Shopify Plus subscription :person_pouting: to enable the location based fees as stores on other plans have no access to edit checkout :anxious_face_with_sweat:

Is there anyone having the same trouble? Could someone advise me on how to achieve the following:

  1. The price of all our current products remain unchanged to maintain the perceived price competitiveness
  2. While a flat rate duties of $15 is displayed and collected at checkout ( like the shipping fees ) to the actual increase of amount paid understandable, predictable and acceptable
  3. The $15 flat rate duties could not be discounted by any types of coupon or store credits.

Thank you

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would love to know this too. These tariffs suck. Cants sustain business and store like this unless the consumer pays for some of it.

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Yes, this is my exact question. I just chatted with tech support and they said I could edit my tax rate by overriding that but it would just look like the taxes went way up and I want it to be transparent that this is a different fee. They had no other solutions. I would think it would be pretty simple for Shopify to add a “custom fee” option that could be added to orders in either a perecentage or flat fee that could be labeled so customers can see this is a tariff fee. How can there be no answers to this?