eBay sellers can now ship to 195+ countries and territories at rates up to 30% lower than the existing Global Shipping Programme, with every parcel cleared for export by Easyship fulfillment infrastructure in the UK, Canada and United States.
NEW YORK, Sept. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Easyship, the global shipping software and API platform trusted by more than 100,000 eCommerce merchants, today announced the expansion of the cross-border export infrastructure behind eBay International Shipping into the United Kingdom.
It's the program's third global market, following its initial launch in the United States in 2022 and its expansion to Canada in 2025, highlighting the success and growth in demand from international marketplace buyers. Easyship has supported eBay's cross-border shipping services since 2019 and runs the fulfillment and export infrastructure that allows eBay sellers to grow their sales and ship to more than 195 countries and territories worldwide.
For many UK merchants, the expansion removes a common barrier for small businesses and online sellers, many of whom previously switched off cross-border sales rather than dealing with the complexity of international shipping.
Delivering cross-border growth for a global marketplace
The cross-border shipping conversation is overwhelmingly about imports: duties, taxes, landed costs, customs clearance and tracking. The harder half is the export infrastructure. Before a parcel can legally leave a country, someone has to determine whether its contents can be shipped at all, whether they are safe to move by air or by road, whether the buyer is a party anyone is permitted to sell to, and which of a fragmented pool of carrier services should carry it.
An individual seller can work that out for one parcel with some manual effort. Doing it across hundreds of thousands of transactions at once is a different problem, which is why so few platforms offer international shipping natively, and why most leave it to the sellers themselves, who quickly conclude it is too hard and revert to domestic markets.
To unlock global growth, Easyship delivers hub processing, bulk label generation, compliance screening, carrier integrations, and customs documentation, all built for high-volume marketplace order flow rather than individual merchant shipments. The same infrastructure underpins Easyship's multi-carrier shipping software and API suite, which pairs export expertise with the import side of the same movement: fully landed costs, multi-carrier label generation, global tracking, import tax and duty calculation, and HS code classification, all from one vendor.
In this way, Easyship removes the constraint on sellers through three layers of international shipping infrastructure for marketplaces.
The export infrastructure behind eBay International Shipping
Centralised export hubs: Easyship operates export hubs in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, built for high-volume inbound and outbound parcel throughput. These are cross-docking facilities, not traditional fulfillment warehouses, and the difference decides who can actually use the service. The traditional fulfillment model only works for sellers willing to send stock overseas in advance and wait for it to sell. Cross-docking asks nothing of the seller until the sale happens: a parcel arrives on an inbound truck, is processed, and leaves on an outbound truck within hours. Nothing is stored, picked, or packed, which lets a long tail of individual sellers and small businesses fulfill their first international order the day it comes in.
Automated screening and multi-carrier routing: In those few hours, Easyship's platform clears each parcel for export and decides how it travels. For every shipment it runs four checks: whether the contents can lawfully be exported, whether they can travel by air or by road, whether dangerous goods rules apply, and whether the buyer can lawfully be sold to. Easyship's routing algorithm then selects a service from a global network of 550+ options, weighing roughly 30 data points per shipment, including destination, dimensions, weight, declared value, Incoterms and HS code. eBay International Shipping can optimize that selection for best overall value, lowest cost, or fastest service, while holding strict carrier performance and reliability standards. The seller doesn't need to choose a carrier, it's sent with the service that best fits it.
A connected shipping integration ecosystem: The third layer is everything Easyship is already connected to, so a platform does not have to be: marketplace and storefront integrations, global carrier integrations, third-party duty and tax providers, and other business, compliance, and payment integrations. One central shipping API integration that connects all the systems.
What this means for UK sellers shipping internationally
eBay International Shipping opens to both private and business sellers as it replaces the Global Shipping Programme. Sellers ship domestically to a UK hub. From that point, customs documentation, duty and tax calculation, international delivery, carrier rate management and post-sale support are all handled by eBay, with no extra international selling fees and buyer reach expanding from 105 to 195+ countries and territories. Enrolment is automatic and sellers are notified, with full details in theeBay Seller Centre.
"For too long, selling cross-border has meant that every seller is solving the same export problems on their own, one parcel at a time," said Augustin Ceyrac, Co-Founder of Easyship. "And marketplaces have watched enormous international demand go unmet because there was no economic way to solve it at scale. Most people who buy or sell on eBay will never see Easyship, and that is by design. What they see is international shipping that just works. Exactly as it should for merchants of every size and scale."
"Anyone can rent a warehouse. Anyone can generate a shipping quote. Anyone can check one package for compliance by hand. It is the scale that creates the complexity," said Paul Lugagne-Delpon, Co-Founder and CTO of Easyship. "Doing all three across millions of parcels, while maintaining compliance, in hours rather than days. That is the part our international export infrastructure solves."
*Rate savings of up to 30% based on eIS rates across the top 10 shipping lanes in the UK where GSP is available, for items up to 3kg, compared with GSP rates as of June 2026.
About Easyship
Easyship is a leading global shipping platform trusted by over 100,000 eCommerce merchants to reduce shipping costs, automate fulfillment, and simplify cross-border growth. The company provides instant access to 550+ courier services, discounts of up to 91% off retail rates, real-time tax and duty calculations for 200+ countries and territories, and smart automation that accelerates fulfillment by up to 5X. Available as both a no-code shipping app (set up in 3-5 minutes) and enterprise-grade API (99.9% uptime), Easyship enables businesses of all sizes to compare rates and carriers, display transparent calculated rates at checkout, protect profits with shipping insurance, and reduce "Where Is My Order?" inquiries by up to 63% with branded tracking and post-purchase updates.
Learn more at www.easyship.com
Media Contact
Augustin Ceyrac, Easyship, 44 7724256658, [email protected], https://www.easyship.com/
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