Since Jul 8 2026, CPSC certificate eFiling through ACE is mandatory — and getting an element wrong can hold your shipment at port. EntryProof turns your SKU spreadsheet into complete, ACE-compatible eFiling packets covering all 16 required elements, whether you sell on Amazon, Shein, Temu, or TikTok Shop. Section 15 civil penalties run to $120,000 per knowing violation (15 U.S.C. § 2069(a)(3)) — upload a sample CSV free and see your packet before you pay.
A held container typically costs $500-5,000 per day of dwell time at port (industry-observed range, not an EntryProof guarantee — we help you prepare your filing data, we don’t promise CBP or CPSC outcomes).
CPSIA framework primary sources: 16 CFR §1303 · 16 CFR §1501 · 16 CFR §1120.3 · 16 CFR §1262. CPSIA-derived compliance framework. Rule set is versioned at v0.7 (see /cpsc-efile/methodology).
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Paste your store URL and your top product's HTS code. Get a preliminary readiness estimate with specific gaps to check before you file — no login required.
Don't know your HTS code? Most sellers don't — leave it blank and we'll estimate one from your product URL.
Instant activation. Readiness scan completes inside 60 seconds; full CPSC-classified packet delivery ships at M1.
Not ready to run the checker? Join the founding cohort — $79/mo for as long as your subscription stays active for the first 25 businesses that sign up.
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This is an illustrative scenario we built to show how a gap compounds, not a report from a real EntryProof customer. EntryProof launched with the CPSC eFiling mandate on Jul 8, 2026 and does not yet have paying customers with a filing history to report on.
Here's how a gap like this typically plays out for an SMB seller:
A hypothetical brand catching this gap early -- before a second or third shipment repeats the mistake -- is a straightforward way to avoid a scenario in that range (illustratively, on the order of $12,000 in combined dwell-time and penalty exposure for a small-catalog seller). That's the specific thing EntryProof's free readiness checker is built to flag before it happens, not after.
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Reference PGA filing is mandatory for regulated shipments — manual entry, CSV upload, or API. No broker license required, but no help classifying your SKUs either. (source: GDLSK legal memo)
Amazon, TikTok Shop, Shein, and Temu each run their own compliance-doc intake. TikTok Shop alone added CPC/lab-report requirements Jun 19, 2026 — a second regime for the same SKU.
$120,000 civil penalty per knowing violation. $17.15M annual cap for a related series. CBP holds your container at the port until you present a valid GCC or CPC. Current caps codified at 15 U.S.C. § 2069(a)(3) (Federal Register 2021-26082, 86 FR 68244; next statutory inflation adjustment due Dec 1 2026). Criminal penalties under 15 U.S.C. § 2070 reach $250,000 and 5 years imprisonment for knowing and willful conduct. eFiling itself is codified at 16 CFR Part 1110 (source: ecfr.gov).
Every claim below links to the primary source — CPSC.gov, the eCFR, and CBP's own ACE documentation. No paraphrased marketing.
Third-party testing for a Children's Product Certificate must be performed at a lab listed on the CPSC Laboratory Accreditation Registry maintained under 16 CFR Part 1112. Each accepted lab is accredited to ISO/IEC 17025 by an ILAC-MRA signatory body for the specific CPSC test methods it covers. Search the CPSC lab registry (source: cpsc.gov). Testing at a non-registered lab does not satisfy the CPC requirement.
90 ppm total lead by weight in the non-volatile content of paint and similar surface coatings on any consumer product. 100 ppm total lead in accessible substrate material of children's products (16 CFR §1500.91, CPSIA-tightened floor). Any lot exceeding those numbers must be halted, quarantined, and reported to CPSC under Section 15(b) within 24 hours of the reporting trigger. Read Part 1303 (source: ecfr.gov).
Your broker files the CPSC Partner-Government-Agency (PGA) line as part of the ACE entry summary, on the same PGA message set that already carries FDA, USDA, and EPA data. The certificate payload includes: rules cited, CPSC-accepted lab identification, dates and place of manufacture and test, and person maintaining test records. If any field fails validation, CBP can hold the entry and CPSC can issue a Notice of Detention. ACE PGA message set (source: cbp.gov).
20 real questions on CPSC eFiling, GCC/CPC certificates, CPSIA, third-party testing, and Section 15 penalties — with plain-language answers grounded in 15 U.S.C., 16 CFR, and CPSC.gov primary sources.
$79/mo flat. No per-user fees, no per-SKU fees, no tiers to decode. Whether you have 5 SKUs or 500, three users or one exhausted compliance person wearing four hats — same price. We priced it flat specifically because our main competitor charges $30 per user plus $20 per 25 SKUs, and importers hate doing that math.
Yes — full access, no feature limits, cancel before it ends and pay nothing. You can load your SKUs, generate certificates, and see the Federal Register alert digest working before a dollar moves. Card required at signup, but we email you before the trial converts.
Annual plans: 30-day money-back, no interrogation. Monthly: the free trial is your risk-free window, but if you hit a real problem after paying, email support@digitalempireholdings.com — we grant reasonable refund requests case-by-case because arguing over $79 is beneath both of us.
Yes, self-serve from the billing page, effective end of period. Before you go, export everything — your certificate records and filing history download in one click, because your compliance records need to outlive any vendor. Ours included.
Yes. Data encrypted in transit (TLS 1.2+) and at rest (AES-256) on US infrastructure (Vercel + Supabase/Postgres). Payments live entirely inside Stripe (PCI DSS Level 1) — we never see card numbers. Your supplier relationships and test reports are commercially sensitive and we treat them that way: no selling, no sharing, no "insights" products built on your data.
Not yet — honest answer, small company, audit is on the roadmap. What we can show your security reviewer today: architecture docs, our encryption posture, Stripe handling all payment data, and a data-flow diagram that fits on one page. Ask and we'll walk through it live.
You and the teammates you invite. Nobody at EntryProof browses customer filings; production access is limited and logged. We're not a marketplace, we're not a data broker, and your certificate data will never appear in anyone else's benchmark.
It manages your CPSC certificate compliance across every import channel: builds and stores your GCCs (General Certificates of Conformity) and CPCs (Children's Product Certificates), structures the data for eFiling through CPSC's Product Registry, tracks which SKUs are covered by which test reports, and watches the Federal Register so rule changes hit your inbox as a digest instead of a surprise at the port.
Most importers are functional in under an hour: import your SKU list (CSV upload works), attach existing certificates and test reports, map products to their applicable rules. From there the system tells you what's missing. The Federal Register monitoring starts working the minute you list your product categories.
If you import consumer products requiring a certificate — almost certainly yes. CPSC's final rule (amending 16 CFR part 1110, published January 2025) made electronic filing of certificate data mandatory as of July 8, 2026 for regulated imported products. Certificate data now goes to CPSC electronically via the Product Registry or ACE at entry, instead of paper-on-request. If you've been coasting on PDFs in a folder, that era is over.
We prepare and structure the data; the filing itself flows through CPSC's Product Registry (which we help you populate correctly) and your broker's entry filing in ACE references it. Think of us as the system that makes sure the right certificate data exists, is current, and is where your broker and the Registry need it — before the entry, not after the hold.
Ask your broker one question: "Are you creating and maintaining my CPSC certificates?" The answer is no — brokers file entries with data *you* supply. Under CPSIA §14, the certificate obligation sits with the importer: you. When the eFiling data is wrong or missing, the exam, the hold, and the penalty land on your entry, not your broker's license. We manage the part that was always legally yours.
They're a capable, established platform priced at $30/user plus $20 per 25 SKUs — which for a 5-person team with 200 SKUs is $310/mo before you've done anything. We're $79 flat, unlimited users and SKUs, focused tightly on the importer eFiling workflow rather than a sprawling suite. If you need their enterprise breadth, buy them. If you need the eFiling job done without a pricing spreadsheet, that's us.
Because until July 8, 2026, mandatory eFiling didn't exist — certificates were furnish-on-request paper. That regime is gone. Certificate data now rides with the entry electronically, which means gaps that were invisible for years are now machine-checkable at the border. Past quiet is not future quiet; the rule change is the whole point.
It is overhead — so is insurance. Context: CPSC civil penalties run six figures per violation (inflation-adjusted caps well past $100K each, with aggregate caps in the eight figures), and a single held container costs you demurrage, missed delivery windows, and a very unpleasant week. $948/yr against that risk profile is the cheapest line item in your import budget.
Reasonable. Three things: your filings live in CPSC's own Registry, not trapped in our database — if we vanished tomorrow, your compliance record stands; everything exports one-click at any time; and the free trial lets you verify our rule-mapping against your own knowledge before paying. We earn trust by being auditable, not by claiming it.
Core: CPSIA Section 14 certificate requirements (15 U.S.C. §2063), the CPSC eFiling rule amending 16 CFR part 1110 (mandatory since July 8, 2026), and the product-specific CPSC rules your SKUs map to — plus continuous Federal Register monitoring for changes to all of the above. We cite the specific rule on every requirement we flag, so you can verify us.
No. We're compliance software plus honest documentation — we organize, structure, alert, and cite the rules. For genuine judgment calls (is this a children's product, does this exemption apply), we'll say plainly "this one needs counsel" rather than let software impersonate a lawyer. Our terms state this and we mean it.
Really. 10 SKUs or 1,000, still $79/mo. If you're an importer with genuinely enormous catalogs (10,000+ SKUs) we may eventually need to talk about infrastructure costs, but no one has hit that ceiling yet, and we'll grandfather early customers regardless.
Yes — two months free on annual, so $790/yr instead of $948. Annual also happens to match how compliance budgeting works: one line item, approved once.
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