Verify your supplier before your money leaves the bank.
When a shipment gets rejected or a regulator comes asking, the liability lands on you — not your supplier. Under rules like the EU's deforestation law (EUDR), you're the one who has to prove where the goods came from. OriginTrace closes that gap: your exporters document farms, lab tests, certificates, and shipments as they operate, and you verify all of it from one buyer workspace — before your money is on the water.
Maximum EUDR fine, on your EU-wide annual turnover
4%
Nigerian sesame shipments physically checked at EU borders
1 in 2
Import markets you can clear from one supplier data pack
3
From source to payment — every step connected
Every supplier says they're compliant. You're the one who pays if they aren't.
A rejected consignment gets billed to you, the importer of record. Regulators fine the first operator who places goods on the market — that's you, not your exporter. And a forged certificate looks exactly like a real one in a PDF. The only durable answer is standing visibility into your supply chain at origin: records that build up as your supplier operates, instead of a data pack assembled the week you went looking for it.
One supplier record. Every regime you answer to.
EU Importers
EUDR due diligence lands on you, not your supplier — from 30 December 2026, with fines up to 4% of your turnover. OriginTrace gives you plot-level geolocation, deforestation cross-checks, and a DDS-ready data pack for every consignment, plus the food-safety paper trail that gets your sesame and spice shipments through border controls instead of held for inspection.
EUDR complianceUK Importers
The UK Environment Act 2021 stops larger businesses from using forest-risk commodities unless due diligence proves legal harvest — and building and reporting that due diligence system, every year, is your obligation, not your supplier's. OriginTrace gives you the farm-level evidence trail: legal land status, verified identity, and a source-to-shipment record your supplier maintains as they operate, so you're never assembling it from scratch when the report is due.
UK due diligenceUS Importers
The Lacey Act makes you responsible for knowing your goods weren't harvested in violation of the country of origin's laws — you're the one filing the customs declaration stating species, quantity, and harvest origin, and a false declaration is a federal offense you answer for, not your supplier. Selling organic on top of that? USDA's National Organic Program (NOP) requires a documented chain-of-custody — a paper trail showing who handled the product at every step, so it never gets mixed with unverified stock along the way. OriginTrace captures the GPS coordinates, verified identity, and legal land status both your declaration and your organic certification need.
Lacey Act & USDA NOP complianceBuyers Sourcing for China
China's customs regulator, GACC (the General Administration of Customs of China), is already turning away shipments from unregistered facilities at its ports — no registration, no clearance, no exceptions. Verify that your supplier's facility registration, traceability records, and documentation hold up before you sign the contract, not after your cargo is sitting at the dock.
China GACC complianceUAE Importers & Re-Exporters
Clear Dubai Municipality inspection with one complete, consistent data pack — and keep your EU channel open if you re-export. Dubai's Food Import and Re-export System (FIRS) checks the same origin and safety data the EU wants for due diligence, so the same supplier record that clears customs in Dubai holds up again in Rotterdam.
UAE complianceHow your payment actually moves.
Not a black box, and not a substitute for a letter of credit — a mechanism you can see the logic of. Four steps, each one gated on something a carrier confirmed, not something a supplier claimed.
Funds move into escrow, not to your supplier
When the contract is signed, your payment moves into a secured account instead of leaving on an invoice and a promise. Your supplier sees the funds are committed; you keep control until delivery is proven.
Every milestone is verified independently
As the shipment moves — gate-in, loaded on board, vessel departed, discharged at destination — OriginTrace checks each event against the carrier's own tracking data. Not your supplier's word. Not an estimate.
Payment releases in tranches, matched to what actually happened
Each carrier-confirmed milestone triggers its agreed share of the payment automatically. If a milestone hasn't happened, nothing moves — there's no way to release funds against a shipment that isn't where it's supposed to be.
You confirm the final release
The last tranche is never automatic. Delivery only completes when you sign off — and if a dispute is raised at any point, every remaining release freezes until it's resolved.
Your best suppliers already deal with buyers who ask for 90-day letter-of-credit terms and the documentary back-and-forth that comes with them. A buyer whose money moves against verified milestones — not months later, and not against a discrepant document — is the contract they take first.
Questions buyers ask before the first contract.
Stop taking your supplier's word for it.
Bring your suppliers onto OriginTrace and make on-platform documentation part of the order — compliance evidence, lab tests, and shipment tracking, maintained at origin and visible from your workspace. Start with a supplier risk snapshot on a real counterparty you're evaluating now.