Export Documentation Management Solutions
World-class functionality, scale and features.
In the knowledge intensive domain of international trade, keeping track of countless export regulatory requirements can be a daunting task. Responsibilities such as document and license management, product certification, and restricted party screening are critical for the survival of any business that relies on cross-border or international trade. With both monetary and criminal penalties harsher than ever, compliance is no longer a choice — it is a necessity.
If you're serious about increasing your throughput, reducing your costs, improving your global trade management, and securing international export compliance for your company, the Visual Compliance Export Documentation Solution is the global trade solution that can achieve your company’s vision of success. Its suite of expert and integration modules and international export document libraries intelligently automates and streamlines your export process management.
A truly global solution, functionality includes the production, distribution and control of export documents, and the business information flow needed for your Global Trade Management. more +
In a single process, the Export Documentation Solution:
- Produces required export documentation, including NAFTA certificates
- Performs full export compliance checking
- Electronically submits shipment information via AES or CAED.
Complete notifications are available in electronic formats, including e-mail, fax, or paper as needed. All special information requirements: U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) documents, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) documents, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) documents and others are created with ease.
It can also perform denied party screening (DPS) and restricted party screening RPS, including Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN) under the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) rules, and over 100 other denied, blocked, sanctioned, law enforcement, and terrorist lists.
The FUNCTIONALITY You Need
What sets the Solution apart is the superb functionality of its core system in combination with the Expert modules available for your selection to meet your specific requirements.
The Expert modules enhance the operational capabilities of the system, completing your service needs ... more +

This expandability allows you to customize your solution before deployment and keeps the system dynamic, providing opportunities to expand capabilities, as your business needs change.
The SCALE You Need
To best suit your operating environment, select from a fully scalable network version that can grow with your organization or a true n-tier client-server version that provides for multiple backend options (SQL, Oracle, etc.) with both desktop and web deployment options for the front end. Both versions can expand as your export volume increases, delivering maximum return on investment, and allowing you the freedom to grow your business without fear of technical limitations.
In either case, you'll have all the capabilities you require, in the format and on the foundation you need ... more +
Interface options are also available for both versions, including Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) connectivity, automated electronic AES submission, and applications support for Restricted Party Screening and NAFTA management.
Network Version
The network version provides full-level functionality that is simple to install and maintain and requires little in the way of IT resources for deployment. This version can operate on a local network among a group of users or on a single desktop machine. It is ideally suited for clients with a limited number of users and locations.
Client-Server Version
The Client-Server version is designed with larger corporate customers in mind. This version offers tremendous flexibility in configuration. It can be implemented in multiple locations with a variety of data host and user interface options and supports the speed, massive data storage, and built-in security of an Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) based data source or server, using proprietary large-scale database architecture.
The FEATURES You Need
The Visual Compliance Export Solution is designed to give you very significant gains in user productivity and accuracy from the first time you use it. Its power and flexibility deliver sophisticated business technology and processes with easy-to-use features for achieving the results you need ... more +
Feature |
EXPORT Documentation Solution |
User ADVANTAGES |
User friendly data entry process |
Data entry screens are logically presented tabbed pages providing direct access to any field on any tab at any time. |
Navigating the system is intuitive and straightforward, making it easy to learn. Exceptional productivity aids eliminate the need to click through every field on every screen. |
Detailed customer and contacts database |
Stores and maintains complete name and address information for all entities. |
Customer and contact information is stored in the database, available for subsequent shipments. |
Detailed parts master database |
Stores and maintains all product detail for use in shipments. |
Description, pricing, tariff classification, and NAFTA qualification information — all available from a single source. |
Access to predefined support tables |
Comes loaded with standard tables such as country, states and provinces, currency, ports, and Incoterms. Other support tables are fully user definable. |
Boosts throughput, accuracy and data consistency. Enhances flexibility, and data entry speed. Usage and training are simplified, and provides critical assistance for your new or part-time users |
Locate your items easily |
Includes a powerful Item Master sort and search functionality including part number, description and HS code. |
Results in a higher percentage of successful searches in a minimum time. |
Built-in online help |
Full Windows style on line help. |
Provides detailed assistance for the new and part-time user of the system as well as help for tasks that are used infrequently. |
Secure encrypted password entry |
Features password protection with data encryption as well as three levels of security: Administrator, User, and Guest |
Keeps your information protected and securely confidential. Restricts user access to certain functionality of the system. |
Automatic last shipment display |
Sign on, and the last shipment worked on is automatically retrieved. |
There is no need to remember where you left off; the system will remember for you. |
Multiple ways to locate your data |
Databases and tables feature multiple search and selection criteria. Switch between criteria with the click of the mouse. |
Locate and access your customers, products and shipments in many different ways. A great productivity aid - eliminates the need to memorize codes. Rapid search and retrieval algorithms |
Shipment to Shipment Smart Copy |
Select any shipment and duplicate it. |
Reduces data entry time when generating shipments to similar destinations. |
Easy to maintain |
Reduces maintenance to one, quick, monthly routine. |
Spend virtually no time on system maintenance. |
Click and go |
Provides mouse and keyboard navigation, providing immediate access to any data field. |
Enter your information in any order and exit at any time. When your day is driven by interruptions, you'll appreciate your ability to save shipments and apply finishing touches later. |
Unlimited room…, where it counts |
Features unlimited comment, notes and address fields, for both contacts and shipments. |
No need to abbreviate or limit what you want to record about clients and shipments. The system will remember all the details and reminders about your shipments and your trading partners. Whether shipment descriptions, marks and numbers, number and kinds or exporter and importer addresses, it's all at your fingertips. |
Automatic calculations |
Totals are automatically calculated, and can be overridden when required. |
Complete flexibility for standard and special situations. |
Built-in archiving |
Automatically moves shipments over 90 days old to history. Easily switch between active and archived records. |
Speeds up processing time in the current shipment file. For additional security, archived records can be viewed or printed, but not modified. |
Extensive selection of documents |
Delivers clear and easy to read professional reports and documents. Select from over 100 Customs and business document types. |
Choose the types of documents you require and all documents are created from entering your critical data in the one entry. |
Screen preview |
Features exact image screen previews of forms, documents and reports. |
You can quickly review your documents to verify that your shipment is complete before printing. Results in increased accuracy and productivity, and reduces paper usage. |
Extensive print options |
Prints to any Windows supported printer and can print selected page(s) of a multiple page document. Direct output to your printer or to the fax as requested. |
Output can be directed to any network printer, whether the printer is next to your desk, in another building or even another country. Delivers improved time management and greater flexibility for meeting shipping deadlines.
The number of copies (documents or reports) to print can be easily changed to override the default, whenever required, and you can request to send to print or fax it on demand, increasing flexibility. All this saves time and reduces steps, streamlining your workflow. |
Management Reports |
Standard export, table content, and summary reports available on demand. |
Product standard monthly reporting. Answer requests for information in a single step. |
The DOCUMENTS You Need
In keeping with the philosophy of maximum scalability, the Solution provides a dynamic document list, allowing for the addition or subtraction of necessary or redundant documents ... more +
The following are our most commonly used documents.
BILLS OF LADING
- Bill of Lading (Bilingual)
- Bill of Lading (Consolidated)
- Bill of Lading (In-Land)
- Bill of Lading (Ocean B/L Consignee Format)
- Bill of Lading (Ocean)
- Master Bill of Lading
CARRIER WAYBILLS
- Carrier Notification
- Carrier Waybill — Generic
- Fedex Summary Sheet
- UPS Summary Sheet
- IATA Waybills — All airlines
CERTIFICATES OF ORIGIN
- Certificate of Origin (Australia)
- Certificate of Origin (Blanket)
- Certificate of Origin (CARICOM)
- Certificate of Origin (Chile)
- Certificate of Origin (generic)
- Certificate of Origin (Israel)
- Certificate of Origin (NAFTA)
- Certificate of Origin (New Zealand)
- Certificate of Origin (South Africa)
- Certificate of Origin (U.S. - Chamber of Commerce)
- Certificate Re Importation of Films
- Combination Certificate of Origin and Invoice
CUSTOMS DOCUMENTS
- Certificate of Destruction (E-15)
- Dangerous Goods Form
- Shipper's Export Declaration (SED)
- Dock Receipt for Hazardous Cargo
- DRAM Certification
- Export Declaration (B13)
- FCC Form 740
- FDA Form 701
- FDA 2877
- FDA Form 2877
- Insurance Form
- Material Release Form
- Packing List
- NAFTA Canada
- NAFTA U.S.
- Repair Declaration
- Shippers Letter of Instructions
- Textile Declaration
- Video Declaration
INVOICES
- Ameri-can Invoice
- Bar Code Invoice
- Canada Customs Invoice (CCI)
- Consolidated Canada Customs Invoice
- Customs Invoice
- Customs/Export Invoice
- Customs Invoice — JDS
- Commercial Invoice — Generic
- Commercial Invoice with Discount
- Commercial Invoice — Ocean
- Commercial Invoice by PO#
- Export Invoice
- HS Summary Invoice — Line Level
- HS Summary Invoice — Shipment Level
- Pro-forma Invoice — (Canada)
- Pro-forma Invoice — MSR Customs Corporation
- Pro-forma Invoice — C.J. Tower Format
- Pro-forma Invoice — Generic
- Pro-forma Invoice — HS summary
- Pro-forma Invoice — Line Consolidation
- Pro-forma Invoice — Ocean
- Shipment Summary Invoice
- U.S. Customs Invoice
INWARD CARGO MANIFESTS
- Inward Cargo Manifest — Consolidated
- Inward Cargo Manifest (form 7533)
PACKING LISTS
- Certificate of Packing — Paper
- Certificate of Packing — Wood
- Packing Declaration
- Packing List by PO number
- Packing List — Generic
How we can Help
Visual Compliance provides robust, cost-effective automation solutions and regulatory content to manage all of these aspects of foreign trade compliance. With over 30 years of experience helping companies easily gain control and visibility over their compliance issues and processes, our solutions are relied on by more than 4,000 companies at home, and abroad.
For more information, call toll-free 1-877-328-7866 and talk to one of our foreign trade compliance consultants. They'll help you analyze your requirements, evaluate your options, and provide focused demonstrations. Or send an email.