The solution for customs compliance of your alcoholic beverages: DFI Excise Plug-in
Nightmare with customs and taxes?
Do sales involving shipping your alcoholic beverages to private customers abroad keep you from sleeping peacefully?
Whether it’s from your e-commerce or following a tasting at the point of sale, there are strict regulations that burden the seller, whether selling within the European Union or outside the EU.
For this reason, it is essential to rely on a partner who can transparently comply with all the fiscal and customs regulations.
Direct from Italy has developed the solution to make your sales to private customers practical and compliant: DFI Excise Plug-in.
Nightmare with customs and taxes?
Do sales involving shipping your alcoholic beverages to private customers abroad keep you from sleeping peacefully?
Whether it’s from your e-commerce or following a tasting at the point of sale, there are strict regulations that burden the seller, whether selling within the European Union or outside the EU.
For this reason, it is essential to rely on a partner who can transparently comply with all the fiscal and customs regulations.
Direct from Italy has developed the solution to make your sales to private customers practical and compliant: DFI Excise Plug-in.
Countries served
How it works?
Plug-in DFI Excise allows you to be in control over customs charges and document management to sell directly to your private customers abroad.
You will be able to sell abroad while complying with customs and tax regulations, either through YOUR E-commerce and from your point of sale, without using intermediaries.
Don’t give away your margins to others, become INDEPENDENT!
The system provides real-time quotes:
How it works?
Plug-in DFI Excise ti allows you to be in control over customs charges and document management to sell directly to your private customers abroad.
You will be able to sell abroad while complying with customs and tax regulations, either through YOUR E-commerce and from your point of sale, without using intermediaries.
Don’t give away your margins to others, become INDEPENDENT!
How does the process work?
The variations of the system
Choose the DFI Excise Plug-in license that best suits you:
BASE
For small businesses: everything you need to create your direct sales network to private customers abroad, in full legality and autonomy.- Excise/duty management for one type of alcohol of your choice between wine, spirits, and beer.
- 15% maintenance fee, applied only to the taxable amount of the product sold
- Integration on a single e-commerce platform
PRO
For medium-sized businesses: a step up for the complete autonomous management of flows to private customers abroad, no more limits.- Excise/duty management for one type of alcohol of your choice between wine, spirits, and beer.
- 8% maintenance fee, applied only to the taxable amount of the product sold
- Integration on a single e-commerce platform
- Integration into the most popular CMS or via API access for customized e-shops
- Add the management of all types of alcohol: wine, spirits, and beer, for only €29/month more
ENTERPRISE
For large businesses: ideal for multi-store operations with a high need for scalability and custom integrations.- Excise/duty management for ALL types of alcohol: wine, spirits, and beer
- Scalable maintenance fee based on the revenue threshold reached
- Multiple installations on both e-commerce platforms and physical points of sale
- Perfect integration with complex management systems and customized corporate e-commerce platforms
- Multi-VAT number management
Don't have or don't want an e-commerce?
Use our point-of-sale solution: Direct from Producer
We have a cloud solution, for exclusive internal use, specifically designed to meet requests from your point of sale or via email, phone calls…
With just 349 euros for setup and the DFI Excise Plug-in license of your choice, you can meet the D2C requests of your foreign customers visiting after a tasting. Don’t miss out on point-of-sale opportunities just because you don’t know how to handle customs paperwork.
Use our point-of-sale solution: Direct from Producer
We have a cloud solution, for exclusive internal use, specifically designed to meet requests from your point of sale or via email, phone calls…
With just 349 euros for setup and the DFI Excise Plug-in license of your choice, you can meet the D2C requests of your foreign customers visiting after a tasting. Don’t miss out on point-of-sale opportunities just because you don’t know how to handle customs paperwork.
COMPATIBLE CMS:
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Frequently Asked Questions - FAQ
The DFI Excise Plug-in is installed directly in your proprietary E-Commerce or Wine Club; it is completely transparent and activates only for the customs duty quoting phase at checkout.
Alternatively, if you do not have an E-Commerce, you can use our software for the point of sale. Discover now: Direct from Producer, or request a quote for building an E-Commerce that will then be yours
The DFI Excise Plug-in enables you to be completely independent in managing your direct-to-consumer sales to private customers abroad.
The system allows you to easily and automatically manage: customs paperwork, calculations of tax and customs duties, and shipping costs for your alcoholic beverages. This way, you can open a direct sales channel to your customers without needing importers or tax warehouses at the destination.
Excise duties, tariffs, and VAT at destination (according to OSS regulations for the EU) will no longer be an obstacle to your sales, as they will be quoted directly in your e-commerce cart and clearly presented to your end customer. The system will connect you directly to customs and integrated logistics.
Certainly, you can choose in which countries to sell among the countries we manage.
You won’t need to establish customs relationships with each individual country you want to target, nor handle customs clearance because we will take care of it for you.
This way, in addition to saving a lot of time and resources, you will have made the entire process practical and automatic.
From your online e-commerce from your customers, on your foreign Amazon storefronts (only for Sellers in the EU), but you can also transform your e-commerce into a system to receive orders directly at the winery with payment on-site!
Potentially, you can use it on any device that has an internet connection, and it can also be used by the customer (for example, by providing them with a tablet).
The payment comes from the customer directly to YOU, without any type of intermediary, already including all customs, tax duties, and shipping costs.
You are free to manage the sale and payment using your preferred methods.
If the customer orders online, you will receive the payment according to the payment methods you have already set up. If you also use the system at the point of sale, you can receive payments directly in cash or via POS from your customer.
NOTHING! Everything remains the same; the DFI Excise Plug-in integrates completely transparently and will only activate at the checkout phase to show your customer the quote for excise duties, tariffs, VAT (at destination according to OSS regulations), and shipping costs.
You can choose how to display costs and customs duties; whether aggregated in a single item or separately.
Wine, beer, spirits, intermediate products, food items, juices, oil, gadgets, merchandise, special boxes, bundles—sell what you want, where you want, and without limits on quantities.
Do you need to manage all types of alcoholic beverages simultaneously? Request the PLUS version or the ENTERPRISE version.
You won’t have to manage any customs bureaucracy or contact any courier.
All you need to do is properly pack the box with certified packaging and apply the shipping label that you will automatically receive via email from our integrated logistics.
All documentation will indeed be managed by our system along with logistics.
By default, we organize direct pickup at the winery, with no additional cost.
Alternatively, you have the option to request outsourcing and picking packing through the logistics connected to our system with the PRO, PLUS, and ENTERPRISE versions.
For sales abroad, it is used exclusively for sales to private customers D2C (direct-to-consumer).
If you sell in Italy, you can target both businesses and private customers.
Yes, you can sell special bottles, wooden boxes, cartons, cans, gift packages; the system adapts to your needs.
You can request a personalized consultation by filling out the request form at the bottom of the page.
We are compatible with basic E-Commerce platforms such as WordPress (WooCommerce), Shopify, Magento, TS Commerce, and Prestashop.
Alternatively, if your E-Commerce is custom, we will provide you with the APIs for integration.
The courier is automatically assigned by the system based on the destination selected by your customer.
Instructions for pickup and shipping label will be automatically sent to you via email after you place your order.
We have a turnkey solution for your point of sale as well, which is not accessible externally to the public but can be used by staff in the winery or directly by visiting customers. This way, you will have the opportunity to expand the wine tourism revenue of your winery. With this system, you can also enter orders received via email from the customer.
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