eIS Canada coming October 2025

[cottagewoman]

https://community.ebay.ca/t5/Announcements/eBay-International-Shipping-is-coming-to-Canada-this-fall...

[palmerstonpicks]

I was wondering about this, should I start adding weight and dimensions to my listings? Is this the information ebay needs when charging/estimating a buyer for shipping? Currently I do not, as I use a flat rate shipping charge. 
Also curious as to when eBay factors the HTS and COO of the item on our listing into the buyer's cost, will we need to add both of those into the listing? Maybe eBay will do that themselves? 

[marnotom!]

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@palmerstonpicks wrote:

I was wondering about this, should I start adding weight and dimensions to my listings? Is this the information ebay needs when charging/estimating a buyer for shipping? Currently I do not, as I use a flat rate shipping charge. 

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Yes, the eIS calculator goes by the information in the “package details” when coming up with its shipping rates. If you don’t have this information, the calculator will likely come up with an astronomical charge.

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@palmerstonpicks wrote:

Also curious as to when eBay factors the HTS and COO of the item on our listing into the buyer's cost, will we need to add both of those into the listing? Maybe eBay will do that themselves? 

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The US eIS takes care of that and I can’t imagine it being different for the Canadian version. It likely bases this information on the item’s category and details in Item Specifics unless the item is already in eBay’s catalogue.

[reallynicestamps]

let's wait to see if the mail system is actually used by eIS Canada to get items from Mississauga to Chicago.

To my mind it would make more sense to use the newer, less overloaded, Winnipeg plant for eISCanada.
Mississaugua gets backed up constantly.

And the union members are somewhat more militant.

It might also mean that the Winnipeg plant chooses a different international hub than the black hole that is Chicago.

I dream in Technicolor.

[reallynicestamps]

Great for items that Canadians have interest in,

DH just got off a Zoom meeting with other philatelists.

Based in Canada, but there are participants in the UK, USA, and South Africa. Occasionnally an Aussie drops in.

My market is international, which is why I list on dotCOM except on bulky items that need Calculated Shipping.

All online markets are worldwide.

And don't forget the Canadian diaspora.

[reallynicestamps]

devon@ebay 

Can you ask about whether a seller can ship a consolidated box of orders to the hub? Similar to how if you don't have a Chit Chats branch in your city, you consolidate orders into one single box and only pay one shipping price.

Post #110 from @ilikehockeyjerseys 

[reallynicestamps]

As in, maybe I need to change my price point to $5.99 BIN + $8.99 shipping.

Which is $15 with Free Shipping.

Am I missing something?

[ilikehockeyjerseys]

I think what people want to know is that if our cost to ship to the eIS is based on our domestic rate, could we have the eIS hub added as a separate option to the domestic rate table?

(Or have the option to stipulate a different domestic rate for eIS.)

The reason is, a lot of Canadians ship lettermail by default. Their domestic shipping prices are based on using lettermail, which most assume will not be tolerated for orders shipped to the eIS hub.

Lettermail is very common in the Canadian market. So it is normal for a seller to have their price structure based on being able to ship an item for $2-$4 CAD in postage. Where as shipping with tracking can cost anywhere from $6-$17 extra depending on where the seller is located relative to the hub. So if tracked shipping is required to the hub to maintain compliant with whatever performance standards eBay dictates to remain in the eIS program, there needs to be a way to set a different domestic rate for eIS shipping. Either a rate table, or a separate rate entirely. 

Without a separate rate table for eIS where sellers can assign a different domestic shipping rate for eIS orders, they are stuck in a spot where they can choose to either raise their domestic prices to account for the cost of tracked shipping or disable eIS because the domestic orders are more important and it isn't viable to charge domestic buyers $6-$17 extra for tracking.

[mandicrafts]

Everyone has access to Chit Chats or Stallion. Just consolidate and send your parcels in to them once or twice a week. Use CP/UPS/Purolator/ whomever, to ship your consolidated parcel to a CBS.
And if you don't want to use a CBS, CP shipping as specified in your listing with eBay Canada label discounts will apply, to get your EIS item to the Mississauga depot. It will be like selling domestically and eBay takes over the rest.
It's better than paying the tariffs yourself using Zonos and CP Snap Ship rates to the US vs eBay Canada labels discounted CP rates to get your items to EIS.
And even using Chit Chats with DDP to USA, the item must have a made in xxxx label and you must have the manufacturers address to use it. EIS won't require that to use for the USA. So you will be able to sell more items into the US again.

[mrdutch1001]

Sorry, but Good Luck with that! > I am am NOT a volume seller and would never have enough pkgs in a month to "consolidate"! and shipping to Ontario is already costly. For within Canada, I use Oversize lettermail rates for some items, occasionally use CP Expedited Parcel (via eBay labels), but for other items, I find it cheaper to use CP Extra Small and Small size Flat rate boxes as I never have need for anything larger nor ever have anything over 5 Kg. No thanks...I am not participating in any shipping schemes that have added costs & fees Plus I will no longer ship to the USA> I won't participate in the Trump Administration's manipulative extortion process for revenge tariffs...

[reallynicestamps]

Everyone has access to Chit Chats or Stallion.

Tell me you live in urban Canada without saying you live in urban Canada.

Even in the capital city of British Columbia there is no ChitChat or Stallion office.

send your parcels in to them once or twice a week.

Which costs?

And how much does it slow down entering the mailstream?

[doc_scribe]

With the eIS hub located in the GTA,  it's déjà vu all over again for Western Canadians.  I opted out on the lopsided expense of it alone.

What's next..a reintroduction of the Crow rate?   🙄

[lotzofuniquegoodies]

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@chicweb wrote:

Tracking is not mandatory from seller to hub ?

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@chicweb sorry I was just responding to the domestic price part - in the US program it goes by whatever domestic shipping method you have set up on the listing.

However, you have to have a delivery scan showing it was received at the hub to benefit from any of the protections involved with EIS so regardless of whether it's mandatory or not, I would say you definitely should use a tracked method.

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@valueaddedresource 

CP does does not have a similar type letter rate that is tracked (for international) compared to what is available in the USA. (Media mail or similar?) You could send as a registered letter with additional charge but then it is more than same rated by Expedited parcel rates. There is a lite version of Expedited that comes in at the 10.00 mark but limit is 200 grams and NOT bulky. Designed for most points except anything that is considered an airstage office.

In the scheme of things technically letter is domestic only and untracked. Not legal for anything with value to be exported. Therefore it is supposed to go using a parcel service...with tracking. There "are" sellers who send to the USA using basic untracked letter services currently but with all closer scrutiny going on by border officials there is a really good chance those items will be rejected and either returned to sender or disposed. As a thing, US buyers prefer the cheapest method of shipping possible to hit the buy button so sellers do what they feel "comfortable" with and let the cards fall where they may. Same reason you don't find US sellers shipping to Canada by letter rate. 

[reallynicestamps]

You could send as a registered letter with additional charge but

We have been warned by Canada Post that Registered Mail is not necessarily tracked outside of Canada's borders.

And it is an old saying in mail order circles that "Registered" is foreign for "valuable and worth stealing".

Works fine within Canada and can be legally used for "goods"  domestically.

[lotzofuniquegoodies]

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@reallynicestamps wrote:

You could send as a registered letter with additional charge but

We have been warned by Canada Post that Registered Mail is not necessarily tracked outside of Canada's borders.

And it is an old saying in mail order circles that "Registered" is foreign for "valuable and worth stealing".

Works fine within Canada and can be legally used for "goods"  domestically.

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@reallynicestamps 

Re: Registered option.

For using to an eIS hub in GTA. Really not an economical backup as a required tracked method. 

[rroader41]

Coming in October.  It's only been 10 days in October we have been waiting and yet one phone call to eBay I reached a lady who seemed to know a bit about EIS and said 45% of those eligible have the program and the remainder would see it that week; which is bygone and still haven't seen it.  Obviously this is not a question.

[marnotom!]

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@rroader41 wrote:

I reached a lady who seemed to know a bit about EIS and said 45% of those eligible have the program and the remainder would see it that week; which is bygone and still haven't seen it. 

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I think an explanation is right there. You may need to get a few more sales under your belt before you're considered "eligible".

[rroader41]

Very possible, although she reviewed the requirements to give me a positive answer.

Possibly 25 years selling on eBay.com didn't hurt but still of the opinion small volume sellers are low priority in all ways.  Long service doesn't get you discounts.  LOL

[ilikehockeyjerseys]

I don't think they are going by volume. I have 15k+ sales over the last few years. I received the initial e-mail a few weeks back, but I wasn't activated on the 8th when they started adding sellers. I've seen sellers with much lower volumes already added and I've seen other high volume sellers who haven't been added yet too.

[flipistics]

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@ilikehockeyjerseys wrote:

I don't think they are going by volume. I have 15k+ sales over the last few years. I received the initial e-mail a few weeks back, but I wasn't activated on the 8th when they started adding sellers. I've seen sellers with much lower volumes already added and I've seen other high volume sellers who haven't been added yet too.

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Yeah, I haven't been yet either and should qualify. As long as other people are in the same position I'm not too worried about it. I'm sure it'll happen next week sometime, if not sooner.

[canadian_horse]

I think the Ebay EIS program will be useful to us as it gets going and matures in 2026. It might take some time, but I am looking forward to being able to sell to Australia.