---
title: "Estimate order costs"
method: POST
path: "/orders/estimate-costs"
tags: ["Orders API"]
---

# Estimate order costs

`POST /orders/estimate-costs`

Calculates the estimated order costs including item costs, print costs (back prints, inside labels etc.), shipping and taxes

## Headers

- `X-PF-Store-Id` string

## Request body

- Order — unresolved $ref

## Response `200`

OK

- object
  - `code` integer — Response status code `200`
  - `result` object
    - `costs` OrderEstimateCosts — Order costs (Printful prices)
      - `currency` string — 3 letter currency code
      - `subtotal` number — Total cost of all items
      - `discount` number — Discount sum
      - `shipping` number — Shipping costs
      - `digitization` string — Digitization costs
      - `additional_fee` number — Additional fee for custom product
      - `fulfillment_fee` number — Custom product fulfillment fee
      - `tax` number — Sum of taxes (not included in the item price)
      - `vat` number — Sum of vat (not included in the item price)
      - `total` number — Grand Total (subtotal-discount+tax+vat+shipping)
    - `retail_costs` OrderEstimateRetailCosts — Retail costs that are to be displayed on the packing slip for international shipments. Retail costs are used only if every item in order contains the `retail_price` attribute.
      - `currency` string — 3 letter currency code
      - `subtotal` number, nullable — Total cost of all items
      - `discount` number, nullable — Discount sum
      - `shipping` number, nullable — Shipping costs
      - `tax` number, nullable — Sum of taxes (not included in the item price)
      - `vat` number, nullable — Sum of VAT (not included in the item price)
      - `total` number, nullable — Grand Total (subtotal-discount+tax+vat+shipping)

## Other responses

- `400` — Bad Request
- `401` — Unauthorized

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