The Popular Postal Union (UPU) has chosen Storm Commerce’s unique Kona API to attend vitality global trade for postal operators.
Storm is a member of the UPU’s prestigious Consultative Committee and its recordsdata validation product Zephyr has been readily available in the market to contributors during the UPU’s Customs Declaration Machine since 2021.
Now, following a rigorous delicate job, Storm has been chosen to offer its Kona API to contributors.
Kona is basically sport-altering for perilous-border trade, holding the serious areas of recordsdata validation, accountability and tax calculation, prohibited and restricted goods screening and denied occasions screening in a single API call.
On account of its modular nature, customers can settle the solutions they most urgently need, whether or no longer that is one or all of Kona’s capabilities.
David Spottiswood, Co-Founding father of Storm Commerce, mentioned: “Storm is already established because the main provider of perilous-border recordsdata solutions to the postal sector with over 30 posts right during the globe the usage of our correct AI-pushed products and extra foremost announcements to utilize in the arriving weeks.
“We are therefore overjoyed that the UPU is continuous to make on our already longstanding relationship with the adoption of our most smartly-liked product, a basically unique innovation in perilous-border eCommerce.
“We are also proud to be a gold sponsor of the UPU’s Consultative Committee, having fun with a pivotal role in providing contributors with recordsdata and idea leadership.
“We now glimpse ahead to extra embedding our prolonged-term partnership with the UPU with the adoption of Kona, at the side of to the suite of products already readily available in the market to its membership.
“The integration of Kona into the UPU’s CDS ability that every the benefits of Storm’s tech are readily available in the market to contributors in a single API call at the side of recordsdata accuracy and hotfoot, improved operational efficiencies, regulatory compliance and delicate customs clearance.”
Storm’s postal customers encompass Royal Mail, Australia Post, An Post, Canada Post, Hong Kong Post and Bpost.
Cyril McGrane, Director of Pricing, Global and QOS at An Post, a longstanding Storm buyer and UPU member, mentioned: “The future success of perilous-border trade hinges upon the adoption of a digital-first ability, underpinned by automatic technologies. Handiest through such innovations can stakeholders be definite that the seamless provision of recordsdata, able to handling the ever-increasing volumes linked to world transactions.
“As perilous-border eCommerce continues to flourish, stakeholders must remain vigilant in navigating the evolving regulatory panorama. Embracing digital transformation and leveraging automatic solutions will seemingly be imperative in sustaining progress and fostering a thriving global eCommerce ecosystem.
“Storm is a global-leader in the provision of perilous-border recordsdata and a strong-valued partner to An Post in supporting our possess largescale programme of digitisation.”
