Customs & Compliance

Most clearance delays are decided before the truck arrives.

Vague product descriptions, a missing classification, a broker waiting on a document nobody sent. None of it is a customs problem when it happens — it is a data problem, and it is fixable while the shipment is still in the building.

Before the border

Check the declaration while it can still be corrected.

A correction made before dispatch costs a few minutes. The same correction after the cargo is held costs a delay, a storage charge and a conversation with the customer.

Product description validation

Descriptions checked against what customs requirements expect, with a suggestion where a description is too vague to classify — a t-shirt becoming a men's cotton short sleeve t-shirt.

HS code support

Classification captured and carried with the shipment. ByLogic's classification API returns a code and a confidence score for text, an image or a URL, so low-confidence items route to a reviewer rather than to a border.

Sender history

What this shipper has declared before, available to the decision instead of rediscovered with every consignment.

Exception flagging

At-risk shipments surfaced before the cargo is blocked, not after a broker asks a question nobody can answer at that hour.

At the border

One held parcel should not hold the consignment.

Broker status in the same system

Customs broker integrations carry clearance status alongside the movement, instead of an update arriving by email into somebody's inbox.

Issue detection during clearance

Problems raised while the shipment is with the broker, so the operator knows before the vehicle is loaded rather than after.

Detach and reassign

A consignment held at the border can be removed from its group and reassigned once the issue is resolved, so the rest of the cargo keeps moving.

Cleaner shipment data

Declarations built from the same record the warehouse and the carrier already work from, rather than retyped from a packing list into a broker portal.

Getting paid

The duty is collected before the parcel moves.

Where the consignee owes duty or tax, the charge is assessed on intake, collected before delivery and verified against the payment before the shipment is released. That keeps the cost with the party who owes it instead of with the forwarder who moved the goods.

Assessment on intake

The charge is calculated when the shipment arrives, so the recipient hears the amount before the delivery is attempted.

Collection before release

Payment verified against the shipment, and the goods released when it clears — not after a failed delivery and a return leg.

One record per consignment

What was assessed, what was collected and what was released, available to the finance side without reconstructing it from carrier invoices.

Where does clearance cost you the most time?

Show us the shipments that get held and we will tell you which of them were predictable from the data — and which parts of the process the platform can take over.

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