6. Settings
Classification
Auto-approve high-confidence codes — off by default.
With it on, codes scoring 90% or above are approved and written to Shopify automatically. Lower-confidence results are never auto-approved, your own overrides are never touched, and every code is validated against the official HTS before any write.
Turn it on once you have reviewed enough of your catalogue to trust the high-confidence band for the kinds of products you sell. Leave it off if you are in a regulated category or if duty errors are expensive for you. Turning it on does not retrospectively approve the existing queue.
Duty estimates
Default origin country — used for products that do not carry their own origin. This matters more than it looks: surcharge programs such as Section 301 are resolved by origin, so without it the app can give you a base rate but not a complete stack.
Shipping mode — Commercial (formal entry) or Postal. Postal shipments can fall under a flat simplified regime instead of the full commercial duty stack, and the two produce materially different numbers. Set it to match how you actually ship.
Sample customs value — default $100. The per-unit value used to turn percentage rates into sample dollar amounts on product pages. A display aid for comparing products; it is not a declared value and changing it changes no rate.
Alerts
Notification email — where tariff-change alerts go. Leave blank to use your shop email. At most one digest email per day, so a busy week in the schedule cannot flood you.
Weekly summary digest — off by default. Turn it on if you would rather get a weekly all-clear even when nothing changed. Useful if silence makes you nervous; unnecessary if you trust "no email means no change".
Plan and usage
Shows how many classifications you have run this month and roughly what they cost, with a Manage plan link through to Shopify.
There is no monthly fee and no catalogue limit — you are billed per product classified, and the first 25 each month are free. The figure shown here is DutyLookout's own estimate; your Shopify invoice is the authoritative amount.
Billing is handled entirely by Shopify — DutyLookout never sees your card.
What DutyLookout stores
Worth knowing, and short:
- Product data — title, description, type, vendor, tags, materials — is stored so classifications can be re-checked and audited.
- Classifications — code, confidence, rationale, and who decided — are your audit trail.
- No customer, order or payment data is read or stored. The app never requests those permissions.
- Your Shopify access token is encrypted at rest.
- Uninstalling clears your data within 30 days, and immediately on request.
The shared classification cache is keyed by a one-way hash of product text, so identical products match across stores without your descriptions ever being exposed. No shop identifier is stored on a cache entry.
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