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Recommended: Dutiful AssistMake your advisors instant experts on personal effects for any country
Students and expats moving abroad need to know what they can ship, what's restricted, and what paperwork is required. Your advisors can answer those questions confidently - for any destination - with Dutiful.
The personal effects gap
The challenge
Personal effects rules are scattered, inconsistent, and nobody has aggregated them
Every country has different rules for personal belongings-ownership requirements, prohibited items, duty-free thresholds, biosecurity rules. Your advisors piece this together from websites in multiple languages every single time.
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No tool exists for this
Zonos calculates duties. Easyship generates labels. Nobody answers the question your clients actually ask: 'What can I bring and what do I need to do?' Dutiful is the first tool built for this.
02
Scattered information
Australian biosecurity rules are on one website. UK Transfer of Residence relief is on another. UAE attestation requirements are somewhere else entirely. Your advisors hunt across dozens of sources per client.
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Your credibility is on the line
When a student's belongings are held at customs because your advisor missed a restriction, it reflects on your organisation. Accurate guidance isn't optional-it's your value proposition.
How Dutiful helps
Every advisor, every country, verified answers from day one
Type 'What does a student need to ship personal belongings from the UK to Australia?' and get the complete picture-documents, restrictions, duty-free conditions, and biosecurity rules-with source citations.
Built for personal effects
Dutiful is the only platform that covers personal effects and household goods as a first-class data category. This is our launch vertical-not an afterthought.
20+ countries at launch
The top destination countries for international moves-all included in every plan. Your advisors cover the routes your clients actually travel.
No expertise required
Advisors ask questions in plain English. Dutiful returns structured, sourced answers they can share directly with clients. No customs training needed.
Required Documents
Duty & Tax
The difference
How your workflow changes
Same scenario. Completely different outcome.
Before Dutiful
- Student asks 'Can I bring my laptop and clothes to the Netherlands?'
- Advisor searches Dutch customs website-it's in Dutch
- Finds a broker blog from 2019-might be outdated
- Gives a best-guess answer with low confidence
- Student's belongings are flagged at customs-missing Verhuisboedel form
- Student blames your service-justifiably
With Dutiful
- Student asks the same question
- Advisor types it into Assist-answer in 30 seconds
- Full requirements: documents, duty-free conditions, timing rules
- Source cited-Dutch Customs authority, verified 15 days ago
- Advisor shares the answer and the source link with the student
- Student arrives with everything in order. Your service looks expert.
The value
1-3 hours
Research time per unfamiliar destination
£198/mo
Dutiful Assist (2 advisor seats)
Expert from day one
Every advisor, every country, immediately
A service handling 30 student moves per month saves 30-90 hours of research time. But the real value is in credibility - accurate guidance builds trust and referrals.
Other use cases
Dutiful works across the logistics chain
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