Digital Certification of Trade Docs
essCert provides Chambers of Commerce, Authorizing Bodies, Exporters and Freight Forwarders with a secure, online tool for application and issuance of electronic governmental and quasi-governmental trade documents such as Preferential and Non-Preferential electronic Certificates of Origin (eCOs), EUR.1, ATR.1, EU / EC Certificates of Origin, Arab Certificates, USP Form A and many more, along with relevant supporting documents such as Commercial Invoices.
Today, essCert is the world’s largest eCO network, including 400+ Chambers of Commerce and 55,000+ Exporters & Freight Forwarders, issuing eCOs and other trade documents out of 21 export countries across the globe.
essCert combines the best of our electronic Certificate of Origin (eCO) solutions – TradeCert (est. 2005, since re-branded to essCert) & eCertify (est. 2008) – with next-generation technologies to offer the world's most powerful eCertification solution for global trade.
How it Works
Key Features
For Exporters & Forwarders
- Interface with corporate systems
- Extract data from PDF invoice, creating applications automatically
- Forwarder module, supporting unlimited no. of exporters through multiple forwarder stations
- Upload pre-formatted Certificate of Origin PDF templates created by other systems (even Microsoft Word or Excel templates)
- Supports preferential and non-preferential COs
For Chambers of Commerce
- Chamber-specific branding
- Interface with Chamber accounting systems
- Interface with Chamber CRM system
- Chamber Hub, supporting multiple Chamber offices or agent Chambers
Benefits
For Exporters & Forwarders
- Significantly reduce document certification time
- Eliminate courier/mail costs
- Significantly reduce data re-entry
- Significantly reduce submission errors and incorrect declarations
- Significantly reduce risk of liability & fraud
- Receive real-time notifications regarding certificate acceptance or rejection
- Industry standard, designed to work for all types of electronic submissions
For Chambers of Commerce
- Eliminate up to 95% of back-office Certificate administration time, increasing admin efficiencies and reducing admin costs
- Significantly reduce risk of liability & fraud
- Time/resource savings by eliminating maintenance & upkeep of custom-built/legacy CO platforms
- Increase visibility and auditability via online reporting tool
- Multi-lingual solution, supporting implementation in any language
- Add value to Chamber membership and attract new members
essCert 4.0
essCert 4.0 will be launched in the coming months, and will offer Chambers of Commerce and other Certifiers the ability to generate revenue from offering other value-adding digital trade finance solutions to their members, and will offer Exporters and Forwarders a modern, intuitive user experience.
Next-Generation eCO Technology
- Fully dynamic and upgraded user experience providing improved optimization across mobile, tablet and laptop
- Open Platform allowing Chambers will to offer eCOs through multiple eCO providers and connect to a range of Chamber CRMs
- Accounting module to handle all customer invoicing
- Processing / Agent chamber capability enabling smaller Chambers the option to outsource eCO processing to larger Chambers while maintaining their own branding
- Invoice-to-application tool, using OCR and machine learning to auto-generate the eCO application
- Multi-payment options via credit card for Exporters/Forwarders; or invoicing to handle customers on account
- Reporting/BI Tool for Chambers & Chamber clients, enhancing visibility and auditability
- Verification Tool for third-parties plus connectivity to ICC Verification Site for Chambers who are a member of the ICC eCO Verification Chain
- Secure AWS-hosted platform, with upcoming two-factor authentication option
- Upcoming – essCert app-store for Exporters & Forwarders, providing add-on solutions for optimizing multi-modal export processes – including powerful shipping document preparation & management tools, Smart AIS vessel/cargo tracking, truck document management & freight tracking, Letter of Credit
- Upcoming – Blockchain / Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) option, enabling Chambers to connect eCO data to DLT platforms and connectivity to IoT devices to improve origin verification
Countries
Our eCOs are currently used by Chambers of Commerce in the following 21 export countries. Click on the countries below for a detailed list of the chambers we work with in each country.
