By Andy Gaber, Founder · Published August 13, 2026 · Last updated August 13, 2026
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Five real tools that touch some part of CPSC Product Registry compliance or the broader import-compliance stack it sits inside, ranging from a free readiness checker to enterprise-quoted supplier-network platforms. The CPSC Product Registry rule at 16 CFR Part 1110 has been mandatory since 2026-07-08, and confusing a broad compliance platform with a narrow, CPSC-specific readiness check is the most common mistake we see importers make.
EntryProof asks one specific question: given a product and HTS code, is this shipment's CPSC Product Registry filing data complete under 2026-07-08's mandate? It is free, self-serve, and does not attempt upstream supplier data collection, freight booking, or duty calculation. Best fit: a small or mid-size importer who needs a direct answer to one narrow question without an enterprise sales process.
Checked live August 11, 2026: assent.com titles itself "Product Intelligence for Compliance and Sustainability," describing "The Assent Network" as providing "product intelligence data to support your product compliance and responsible sourcing." It pulls compliance data (REACH, RoHS, conflict minerals) from a manufacturer's supplier network. No public price was found live; the product is enterprise sales-quoted. None of its public positioning names the CPSC Product Registry specifically. See our full EntryProof vs Assent breakdown.
enhesa.com was confirmed live August 11, 2026 as an enterprise regulatory-intelligence platform tracking environmental, health, and safety (EHS) and broader compliance obligations across many jurisdictions. Like Assent, it operates at a different scope than a single-shipment readiness check — global regulatory-change tracking for large organizations rather than a CPSC-specific filing tool. See our full EntryProof vs Enhesa breakdown.
Descartes Systems Group's CustomsInfo product, verified live August 11, 2026 at descartes.com/solutions/customs-and-regulatory-compliance, provides global tariff and trade-content data (HTS/HS classification, duty rates, restricted-party screening) across many countries, not a CPSC-specific filing workflow. See our full EntryProof vs Descartes CustomsInfo breakdown.
Confirmed live August 13, 2026: freightos.com is an "Online Freight Shipping Marketplace & Platform," with a free Import Duty Calculator and an enterprise product line covering freight risk and governance compliance. It estimates duty and books freight; it does not check CPSC Product Registry readiness. A dedicated EntryProof vs Freightos breakdown is in progress and will be linked here once published.
Start with the actual scope of your problem. A small or mid-size importer whose immediate concern is "will my next shipment clear the CPSC Product Registry" needs a narrow, free readiness check, not an enterprise platform contract. A manufacturer managing dozens of suppliers across multiple international regulatory regimes has a genuinely different, larger-scope problem, and a platform like Assent or Enhesa is built for that scale. A shipper primarily concerned with freight cost and booking logistics is better served by a marketplace like Freightos, with CPSC readiness checked separately.
None of these categories are mutually exclusive. A large manufacturer could reasonably run Assent or Enhesa for upstream supplier compliance, Descartes CustomsInfo for classification and duty content, Freightos for freight booking, and still need a CPSC-specific readiness check immediately before a shipment files, because none of the broader platforms are purpose-built for that one narrow gate. Strong upstream compliance data does not guarantee a complete downstream CPSC filing; those are separate checks that a business can pass or fail independently of each other.
None of the five tools above operate in isolation from the rest of the import process. U.S. Customs and Border Protection's trade compliance overview describes general customs entry procedures, separately codified at 19 CFR Part 141, as the foundation every import sits on regardless of which product-specific agency requirements apply on top. CPSC Product Registry filing is one specific layer within that broader entry process, alongside duty calculation, classification, and any other Partner Government Agency requirements a given product might trigger (FDA for certain materials, USDA for others). A tool that handles one layer well does not automatically cover the others, which is the recurring theme across every comparison on this page.
It is worth stating plainly: none of the five tools above, including EntryProof, perform the actual product testing a Children's Product Certificate or General Certificate of Conformity requires. That testing has to happen at a CPSC-accepted third-party laboratory for children's products, per the reporting and certification framework at 15 U.S.C. § 2064. A readiness checker, a supplier-network platform, or a classification tool can all help organize and verify that certification data exists and is correctly formatted, but none of them substitutes for the underlying lab testing itself. Civil penalties for filing or certification failures can reach the levels set out at 15 U.S.C. § 2069, which is the underlying financial exposure every tool on this list is, in its own way, trying to help an importer avoid.
It is worth being explicit about the pricing pattern across these five tools, because it is not random. Enterprise supplier-network and regulatory-intelligence platforms (Assent, Enhesa) price based on the number of suppliers, products, or business units under management, which scales naturally with a large manufacturer's complexity. Global trade-content platforms (Descartes CustomsInfo) and freight marketplaces with enterprise tiers (Freightos) similarly gate their fullest capability behind a sales process rather than public self-serve pricing. A narrow, single-purpose readiness checker like EntryProof has no equivalent scaling cost structure to price against, because the check itself does not get more expensive as your product catalog grows the way a supplier-network subscription does.
That difference is not a knock on the enterprise tools' pricing model, their scope genuinely justifies it. It does mean a small importer evaluating "CPSC compliance software" broadly should expect wildly different price points depending on which category they are actually looking at, and should not assume the most expensive option is automatically the most relevant one for a single-shipment problem.
The honest test is not "which tool has the most features" but "which tool matches the scope of my actual problem today." A small importer checking one shipment's CPSC readiness does not need supplier-network infrastructure any more than a manufacturer managing two hundred suppliers across a dozen countries needs a single-shipment checker as their only compliance tool. Start with the narrowest tool that solves your immediate problem, and add broader platform capability only once your actual operational scale justifies the cost and implementation effort that comes with it.
A useful way to think about sequencing these tools: start with the free readiness checker for your next shipment, regardless of your eventual scale, because it costs nothing and answers the most immediate question directly. If that process reveals recurring gaps tied to supplier data quality (missing Foreign Supplier IDs, inconsistent certification documentation across factories), that is a signal your actual bottleneck sits further upstream, which points toward a platform like Assent or Enhesa rather than a better readiness checker. If the gaps instead trace to classification uncertainty across a large, varied product catalog, that points toward a global trade-content platform like Descartes CustomsInfo. Buying the enterprise platform first, before understanding which specific layer is actually failing, risks solving the wrong problem at a much higher cost.
It is worth being concrete about the stakes these five tools are all, in different ways, trying to manage. A held container due to a CPSC Product Registry filing gap typically costs $500-5,000 per day of dwell time at port, an industry-observed range rather than a guarantee from any vendor. Separately, civil penalties under 15 U.S.C. § 2069 can reach $120,000 per knowing violation and up to $17.15 million for a related series of violations (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). Neither figure depends on which tool an importer eventually chooses; both depend on whether the underlying filing and certification data was actually complete and accurate before the shipment moved. Every tool on this list is, from a different angle, trying to reduce the odds of hitting one of those two cost categories.
A pattern worth watching for across this entire category: vendors sometimes describe their product as covering "CPSC compliance" broadly, without specifying whether that means Product Registry filing readiness, supplier-network data collection, testing-lab coordination, or general regulatory-change tracking. Those are meaningfully different capabilities, and a platform strong in one is not automatically strong in the others. Reading the actual product description, as we did for each tool above, rather than the marketing category label, is the more reliable way to determine fit before committing to an enterprise sales process or a subscription.
None of these five tools compete directly with each other in the way the phrase "compliance software" might suggest at first glance. EntryProof answers a narrow, free, immediate question about one shipment's CPSC Product Registry readiness. Assent and Enhesa manage broader upstream compliance data across a manufacturer's supplier network at enterprise scale. Descartes CustomsInfo provides global classification and duty content across many countries. Freightos books freight and estimates duty. Matching the tool to the actual scope of the problem in front of you, rather than reaching for whichever one has the most complete-sounding marketing, is the single most useful takeaway from this comparison.
None of the vendors named on this page paid for placement, and none reviewed this page before publication. Every pricing figure, product description, and live-check date above is independently sourced from each company's own public site, checked directly by us on the date noted next to it.
One last practical note: pricing and product scope in this space change. A vendor's public positioning, self-serve pricing availability, and even whether a specific CPSC-adjacent feature exists can shift between our live checks and when you read this. Re-verify directly against each vendor's own site before committing budget, the same discipline we applied when researching this page, rather than treating any single snapshot in time as permanent.
Among the tools we checked live, none publicly markets itself as an end-to-end CPSC Product Registry filer of record, that role generally sits with a licensed customs broker. The tools on this list address different pieces of the compliance stack: readiness checking, supplier data collection, or broader trade-compliance intelligence.
Because they solve genuinely different problems even though both get marketed under the broad "compliance software" umbrella. A readiness checker answers "is this specific shipment's CPSC filing data complete." A supplier-network or regulatory-intelligence platform answers broader, earlier-stage questions about sourcing and multi-regime compliance. Conflating the two leads buyers toward the wrong tool.
No. The tools below range from free (EntryProof's readiness checker, Freightos' duty calculator) to enterprise sales-quoted (Assent, Enhesa, Descartes CustomsInfo), and the right pick depends on whether you are a small importer checking one shipment or a large manufacturer managing a global supplier network.
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.
EntryProof is not affiliated with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Amazon, Shein, Temu, or TikTok Shop.