Descartes Visual Compliance vs MIC-CUST

Descartes Visual Compliance provides cloud software for regulatory and trade compliance, including denied-party screening, audit and resolution, OFAC compliance, export classification and automation, and risk management. Its denied and restricted party screening covers lists from 180+ countries. Compliance Manager Workflow centralizes alerts, screening history, rescreening management, and match resolution; recorded actions include the date and user. Integrated screening supports Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, Infor, Shopify, NetSuite, HubSpot, and custom-built or legacy systems. A mobile screening solution is designed for mobile devices and works with major mobile platforms. The vendor describes encryption, authentication and authorization controls, secure servers, monitoring, and intrusion detection, and says it provides training, technical support, regulatory product updates, and dedicated customer success support. Pricing is on request. The pricing page says basic implementations for small screening volumes and one user start at a few thousand dollars a year; a typical customer screening 50,000 entities should budget around $20,000 a year. Listed plans include Standard, Mid-Market, and Enterprise, with additional capabilities at each tier.

MIC-CUST is a centralized web-based system for automating customs compliance and global customs processes. It supports automated customs declarations across more than 55 countries. Modules cover import and export declarations, special customs procedures with inventory management, electronic transit, Intrastat reporting, and excise movement control. MIC-CUST supports electronic data transfer to brokers and forwarders and direct exchange with national customs authorities. It can generate an import declaration in one country using export data originating in another. MIC SAP CONNECT links SAP ERP with MIC customs and trade compliance modules, exchanges data and response messages, and supports SAP SD, MM, and PP. MIC also describes AI-assisted tariff classification, customs declaration assistance, and document processing that extracts data from PDFs, images, and spreadsheets. Its Trade Content Service provides customs tariffs, exchange rates, and export control lists for more than 150 countries. The company describes its product suite as web-based Software-as-a-Service on a single technology platform. Its Trust Center lists GDPR, ISO/IEC 27001, and TISAX under compliance; MIC says support services offer guaranteed response and resolution times. Pricing is available on request through sales.