Automated Documentation and Valuation of Customs Entries (ADVANCE®) is an integrated modular solution designed to streamline and facilitate the customs processes through a unified platform compliant with international standards and conventions.

ADVANCE ensures compliance of customs processes with international standards of the World Customs Organization (WCO), the World Trade Organization (WTO) and UN/CEFACT.

Single Window

• A unified collaborative workspace that allows the lodging of documents with a single body and through a single entry point
• An automated workflow engine that complies with the pre-shipment declaration approach

Classification

• Accurate definition of customs fees
• Harmonized System Code that assists in the classification of imported goods
• Fully-compliant with the standards of the World Customs Organization

Risk Management

• Helps in identifying, analyzing, evaluating, treating and monitoring the risks pertaining to certain shipments
• Configuration of the module’s parameters to deal with different scenarios

Valuation

• A unified management system manages and monitors all system channels
• Various valuation methods
• Compliant with the valuation and pricing standards of WCO and WTO

Electronic Revenue Collection

• Provides banks with the facility to issue the transaction’s receipt, including the shipment data, and flag it as paid
• Readily-integrable with electronic payment gateways

Post Clearance Audit

• Random selection of audited shipments and inspection of cleared goods
• The ability to rectify any previous discrepancies as an additional security measure

Warehouse Management

• Authorizing new warehouse definitions, including warehouse capacity, reservation fees and merchandise type
• Checking and reporting merchandise transactions and movement upon receiving or release, and managing special permissions

To eliminate any possibility of under-valuation, ADVANCE®, fully integrates with international price providers, who provide an accurate value of an imported good as per the market price.

The tariff database captures all the imported commodities’ prices into a centralized backbone, providing customs officers with the ability to track all specifications, parameters and attributes that influence a commodity’s price.

The tariff database’s scalability allow it to accommodate large volumes of frequently-updated data.