Localise pricing, shipping, and checkout from the visitor's first page view — one API call, under 50ms, no permission prompt.
Your store already knows what a shopper is viewing. IP geolocation tells you where they are — so the currency, shipping options, tax, and checkout all adapt before they click "buy." No reload. No pop-up. Just the right experience, instantly.
Six high-leverage jobs, each driven by fields in a single lookup.
Detect the visitor's country the moment they land, read the local currency from the response, and render prices in money they recognise — no dropdown, no guesswork.
Visitor from Berlin → 46.228.x.x
country: Germany · currency: EUR (€) → store shows €49, not $49
Use country and timezone to pre-select the right locale, format dates and delivery estimates correctly, and greet returning visitors in their own context.
Visitor from Tokyo → 126.0.x.x
timezone: Asia/Tokyo → 'Order in the next 3 hrs for same-day dispatch' in local time
Resolve country and region on page load, then show only the carriers and rates that actually serve that location. Filter ineligible products before they reach the cart.
Visitor from Sydney → 1.159.x.x
country: Australia · region: NSW → surfaces AU couriers, hides US-only freight
Populate country, region, and dialling code before the shopper types anything. Fewer fields means fewer abandoned carts — and they can still override whatever's wrong.
Visitor from Toronto → 99.239.x.x
country: Canada · region: ON · dial_code: +1 → address form pre-filled on load
Country and region drive VAT, GST, and sales-tax logic, plus EU-status flags for consumer-rights and consent requirements — resolved before checkout renders.
Visitor from Paris → 92.184.x.x
country: France · is_in_eu: true → applies 20% VAT + EU consent banner
Compare the IP-derived country against the billing address and ASN. A mismatch isn't proof of fraud, but it's a useful signal to feed your existing risk stack before capturing payment.
Billing: US · IP country: NG · ASN: hosting provider
country mismatch + datacentre ASN → flag for review, don't auto-decline
Every one of these ships in the standard response — no add-ons, no tiers.
country / countryCode Currency, shipping rules, tax logic, compliance flags currency Native-currency pricing and multi-currency checkout region / city Regional shipping zones, state-level tax, store locators timezone Accurate delivery estimates and sale countdowns is_in_eu VAT handling and EU consumer-rights / consent rules connection (ASN) A supporting signal in checkout risk review A single IP lookup returns the visitor's country, region, currency, and timezone, letting a store show local-currency pricing, route the right shipping options, apply correct tax rules, pre-fill checkout fields, and add a geo signal to fraud checks — all before the shopper interacts with the page.
No. IP geolocation resolves server-side from the request IP with a median response under 50ms, and needs no browser permission prompt — unlike GPS-based browser geolocation.
Country-level accuracy is very high and reliable for currency selection, tax jurisdiction, and shipping rules. Always let the shopper override the detected country at checkout, since some fields like city or region can be null for certain IPs.
Free tier: 2,000 lookups/day, no card. Paid plans from $2.50/month. One call per visitor, under 50ms median response.