By Andy Gaber, Founder · Published August 11, 2026 · Last updated August 11, 2026
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Short version: Descartes CustomsInfo is part of a large, enterprise-scale trade-compliance and logistics software suite built by Descartes Systems Group. It is not built specifically around the CPSC Product Registry's mandatory eFiling requirement under 16 CFR Part 1110, which has applied to CPSC-regulated products since July 8, 2026. EntryProof is a free, self-serve readiness checker built for exactly that one requirement.
The CPSC's Product Registry eFiling rule, codified at 16 CFR Part 1110, became mandatory on 2026-07-08. It requires importers of CPSC-regulated consumer products to submit specific product data electronically before goods clear customs. This sits on top of, not instead of, general customs-entry requirements administered separately under Title 19 of the Code of Federal Regulations, which governs customs duties and entry procedures broadly, including the rules governing licensed customs brokers under 19 CFR Part 141. An importer can be fully compliant on general customs entry and still be unprepared for the CPSC-specific data the Product Registry rule demands — that gap is exactly where a mismatch between a broad enterprise platform and a narrow readiness tool can leave a shipment exposed.
We reviewed Descartes Systems Group's public solutions pages directly on August 11, 2026. Under "Customs and Regulatory Compliance," Descartes lists customs declarations, security filings, foreign trade zone management, and other government-industry programs, plus a separate customs-compliance offering inside its broker and forwarder enterprise systems line. Descartes is a publicly traded company (Descartes Systems Group Inc.) whose customer base skews toward customs brokers, freight forwarders, and large-scale importers running multi-country trade operations — infrastructure sized and priced for that scale, sold through an enterprise sales process rather than a public self-serve price list. None of the public pages we reviewed specifically named 16 CFR Part 1110 or the CPSC Product Registry rule; Descartes' core value proposition is broader customs-entry and trade-data infrastructure.
EntryProof asks one specific question: given your product category, HTS code, and store data, are you ready to file with the CPSC Product Registry the way 2026-07-08 onward requires? It is free, self-serve, and returns a readiness estimate and gap list you can act on directly or hand to your existing customs broker. EntryProof does not attempt to replace general customs-entry infrastructure — it is explicitly not a customs broker, not a testing laboratory, and not a legal-advice service, and it does not guarantee that CPSC or CBP will accept any classification, packet, or filing.
| Category | Descartes CustomsInfo | EntryProof |
|---|---|---|
| Target customer | Customs brokers, forwarders, large-scale importers | Small/mid-size CPSC-regulated sellers |
| Scope | Broad customs declarations, security filings, FTZ management | CPSC Product Registry readiness specifically |
| Pricing | Enterprise sales-quoted; no public price found live Aug 11, 2026 | Free readiness checker |
| 16 CFR Part 1110 specificity | Not named on public pages we reviewed | Core focus |
| Replaces a customs broker? | No — infrastructure a broker or importer uses | No — prep layer before your broker or the Registry |
A high-volume importer running entries across dozens of ports, multiple carriers, and several regulatory regimes at once needs infrastructure at a scale EntryProof was never built for. If your compliance team already manages customs declarations and security filings through an enterprise platform, Descartes' broader trade-data infrastructure is a reasonable, arguably necessary, tool at that scale — and EntryProof is not trying to compete with it there.
A small or mid-size seller who has never had to think about the CPSC Product Registry before July 8, 2026 does not need enterprise trade-compliance infrastructure to answer one question: is my next shipment actually ready to file. EntryProof is free, requires no sales call, and returns a gap list in minutes instead of an enterprise onboarding process.
This is a hypothetical scenario, not a real customer case. Picture a mid-size toy importer whose customs broker already uses enterprise trade-compliance infrastructure for general customs-entry filings across several countries. That infrastructure has never specifically flagged the CPSC Product Registry requirement, because it was never built around that one CPSC-specific rule. The importer runs a free EntryProof readiness check ahead of a shipment and discovers a missing Children's Product Certificate reference their broker's general customs process was never designed to catch — a narrow gap a broad platform was never built to close, caught by a narrow tool built for exactly that.
The CPSC Product Registry rule applies broadly to importers of consumer products subject to CPSC jurisdiction, which covers a wide range of categories beyond the obvious ones like toys and children's apparel: small electronics, furniture, certain textiles, and dozens of other product classes carry CPSC-regulated status depending on their specific design and intended use. A seller who has never previously had to think about CPSC compliance can discover, sometimes only when a shipment is already in transit, that a product they assumed was outside CPSC's scope actually requires either a Children's Product Certificate or a General Certificate of Conformity before it can clear customs under the Product Registry rule. That discovery gap, finding out too late rather than too early, is specifically what a readiness checker like EntryProof is built to close.
Neither Descartes CustomsInfo nor EntryProof determines, on your behalf, whether a specific product legally requires a CPC or GCC; that determination depends on facts about the product itself and ultimately rests with the importer and their compliance advisors. What a readiness tool can do is flag the gap in your filing data early enough to fix it before a container is sitting at port accumulating dwell-time costs.
Based on the categories of gaps EntryProof's readiness checker is built to catch, the most common preparation failures are not exotic: a missing or mismatched HTS code between the shipment paperwork and the CPSC filing, a Children's Product Certificate that references an outdated testing standard, or simply the absence of any CPSC-specific filing at all because the importer assumed their existing customs broker relationship already covered it. None of these require enterprise-scale trade infrastructure to catch; they require a checklist built specifically around what the Product Registry rule actually asks for, which is the entire premise behind a narrow, free tool over a broad, enterprise-priced one for a seller who does not need the rest of what an enterprise platform bundles in.
An importer already running Descartes CustomsInfo as part of a broader trade-compliance deployment faces a real question before adding any new tool: is a second, narrower product worth the operational overhead of one more login and one more process to maintain. For EntryProof specifically, that overhead is close to zero, because it does not require any integration with your existing customs infrastructure. You run the free readiness check for a specific shipment, get a gap list, and either close those gaps yourself or hand them to whichever team, in-house or via Descartes-supported broker workflows, already manages your broader customs process. There is no data migration, no API connection to configure, and no ongoing per-seat cost that would make the addition meaningfully more expensive to maintain than not having it.
That low-friction addition matters because it changes the actual decision from “replace Descartes with EntryProof” (a decision most importers using enterprise trade infrastructure have no reason to make) to “run EntryProof's free CPSC-specific check in addition to whatever Descartes already does” (a much lower-stakes decision that costs nothing to test).
One honest limitation worth stating plainly: EntryProof's readiness output is an automated estimate, not a compliance determination, and it does not guarantee that CPSC or CBP will accept any particular classification, packet, or filing. The same caveat applies, in different language, to any automated classification or readiness tool, Descartes' included, since none of these platforms substitute for a licensed customs broker's judgment or, where warranted, a trade attorney's review on a genuinely ambiguous product. What an automated readiness check reliably does is surface obvious, common gaps, a missing certificate, a mismatched HTS code, before they become an expensive problem at port, which is a meaningfully different and more limited claim than “this filing is guaranteed to be accepted.”
We did not find a public, self-serve price list anywhere on Descartes' solutions pages during our August 11, 2026 review, which is typical of enterprise trade-compliance software sold through direct sales engagement rather than a published price. That absence is itself informative: a product with no public price is generally not designed for a fast, self-serve evaluation, which is a meaningfully different buying process than checking EntryProof for free in a few minutes. Anyone actually pricing out Descartes for their own operation should expect a sales conversation rather than a checkout page, and should budget calendar time for that process accordingly when weighing it against a same-day free alternative.
No, and that is the central distinction on this page. Descartes Systems Group's customs and regulatory compliance suite (confirmed live at descartes.com/solutions/customs-and-regulatory-compliance, checked August 11, 2026) covers customs declarations, security filings, foreign trade zone management, and broker/forwarder enterprise systems -- a broad, enterprise-scale trade-compliance and logistics platform. It is not a purpose-built tool for the CPSC's mandatory Product Registry eFiling rule under 16 CFR Part 1110, which took effect July 8, 2026 and is a narrower, CPSC-specific requirement layered on top of general customs compliance.
Descartes serves customs brokers, freight forwarders, and large-scale importers who need enterprise trade-compliance infrastructure across many regulatory regimes at once -- not a small or mid-size seller trying to answer one specific question: "am I ready to file with the CPSC Product Registry." EntryProof is scoped narrowly to that one question.
No. EntryProof is explicitly not a customs broker, not a testing laboratory, and not a legal-advice service -- it is a data-preparation and readiness-assessment tool for the CPSC Product Registry specifically. If you already use a broker or an enterprise platform like Descartes for the rest of your customs compliance, EntryProof is a narrow, free layer that checks CPSC Product Registry readiness before that broader process, not a replacement for it.
Section 15 of the Consumer Product Safety Act allows civil penalties up to $120,000 per knowing violation and up to $17.15 million for a related series of violations, per 15 U.S.C. § 2069 (current caps set by Federal Register notice 2021-26082, 86 FR 68244, effective Jan 1 2022 under 15 U.S.C. § 2069(a)(3); next statutory adjustment due Dec 1 2026). Separately, a held container due to an incomplete or incorrect filing typically costs $500-5,000 per day of dwell time at port, an industry-observed range, not a guarantee from EntryProof or any vendor.
No. Neither this comparison nor EntryProof itself is legal advice, customs advice, or a compliance certification. Compliance decisions remain the responsibility of the importer and their own customs broker or trade attorney.
EntryProof is a data preparation and readiness-assessment tool for the CPSC Product Registry. EntryProof is NOT a customs broker, NOT a testing laboratory, and NOT a legal-advice service. Compliance decisions remain the responsibility of the importer. EntryProof does not guarantee that any classification, packet, or filing will be accepted by CPSC or CBP.
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