Setting up your costs Answer 33 of 46 Updated

Where do EPR rates come from?

From your own scheme contract. EPR means extended producer responsibility: you pay a recycling fee for the packaging you send into a country. You enter the rates per country and per material. nouz keeps no table of rates, because schemes quote privately and change their prices every year.

Open Logistics and click Packaging EPR. Under Fee per kilogram of packaging, click Country for each country you ship to. Countries you ship to without a fee come first, under You ship here, no fee set. Each material is a column, in your currency per kg: click Material to add one. Copy the numbers from your scheme contract or your last invoice.

An example: paper costs €0,177 per kg in a country, and a parcel carries 200 g of cardboard. The fee on that parcel is about 3,5 cents. nouz keeps such fractions of a cent and rounds only once a day, so nothing gets lost.

Once Packaging EPR has rates, a country you ship to but have not listed is flagged, never quietly charged zero: a banner names it, says how many parcels carried no fee, and has a button to add it. A country outside the EU, like Switzerland, can be listed with no rates. It then sits under No fee here. That says you owe no EU packaging fee there, and nothing is flagged.

The fee is charged per parcel, on the materials its packaging declares, by the country it goes to. It lands in Logistic Costs on the day of the order. The table shows each country's parcels and its fee of the last 30 days, and fee since says when a country started to carry one. For your scheme's declaration, use the Packaging EPR report in Settings, Data export. It adds up the kilograms per material and country, and the fee they carried.

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