Experience with selling/shipping from US to Canada?

Anyone have experience and care to share any tips?

Any issues with taxes, shipping, customs, etc?

We have a client considering selling to Canada from US.
Thanks in advance.

RCC wrote:

Hello-

We frequently sell to Canadian customers. There are no special tax requirements, and the shipping rates computation methods such as USPS, Fedex and UPS can each be configured to retrieve and display international rates, so no problems there either. You MAY encounter customs issues depending on your types of products, but if you use a 3rd party system like ShippingEasy, any customs requirements are dealt with as the shipment is created. I highly recommend ShippingEasy.

I thought GST and provincial taxes were required when shipping to Canada (?)

Only if the sale actually originates within a Canadian province are you required to collect and send tax revenue. So, unless your actual business is located in Canada, or your website is hosted in Canada, you are exempt from collecting the tax revenue.