# Do Overseas Orders Cover Their Costs?

> Compares what overseas customers pay for shipping with a suggested country handling fee, so you can decide if a fee is fair.

- Job: [Reporting & insights](https://storeagent.ai/mcp-recipes/job/reporting/)
- What it does: Read only: looks, never changes anything
- Time saved: ~45 min vs doing it by hand
- Requires: StoreAgent (free plugin, MCP on every plan) + Extra Fees for WooCommerce
- Works in: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and any MCP client connected to the store through StoreAgent MCP
- Web page: https://storeagent.ai/mcp-recipes/extra-fees-international-check/

## The prompt

```text
Check if my international orders pay their way. Get the fee suggestions for my store and pull out any country handling fees. For each of those countries, look at my orders from the last 90 days. Show the order count, the average order value and the average shipping charged, next to the same numbers for my home country. Then tell me for each country if the suggested fee makes sense, should be lower, or should be skipped. Do not change anything.
```

## What happens when you paste it

You: Check if my international orders pay their way…

Assistant: 1 country fee came back: a $3.50 handling fee for Canada, which is 14% of your orders. Canadian orders average $58 with $9.80 shipping charged. Home orders average $52 with $6.20. Calling: `wcpfc/suggest-best-fit-fees`, `woocommerce/orders-query`.

Assistant: Canada already pays $3.60 more for shipping per order, so a full $3.50 fee on top may cost you sales. Try $2.00 and look at the numbers again in 30 days.

## Abilities this recipe calls

- **Suggest extra fees** (`wcpfc/suggest-best-fit-fees`, read only, from Extra Fees for WooCommerce): Looks at your recent orders and products and suggests up to five extra fees, with the reason and a revenue estimate for each.
- **Find orders** (`woocommerce/orders-query`, read only, from WooCommerce): Finds orders by status, customer, email or date, with the items in each order.

## Variations

Add one of these to the end of the prompt. Swap anything in [brackets] for your own details.

- Also show refunds and cancellations per country.
- Only look at orders over $100.

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