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For exporters paid under documentary credits

Shipment date plus 21 days is not your presentation deadline.

It is the shipment date plus the presentation period the credit states — and then capped by the expiry date, whichever falls first. That cap is the commonest spreadsheet error in this trade. Get it wrong and the bank refuses the set: a discrepancy fee out of your proceeds, and payment stops until it is cured or waived.

The calculator asks for nothing. No account, no email address, and it stores nothing.

What the problem costs

60–75%
of documentary credit presentations are refused on first presentation. UCP 600 arrived in 2007 and has not moved the number.
USD 50–150
is a typical discrepancy fee, sometimes 250, deducted from the exporter’s proceeds. That is the small half.
1–3 weeks
is the large half: payment stops until the discrepancy is cured or waived, on an invoice that is usually five or six figures.

ICC Academy and ICC discrepancy-rate surveys; published discrepancy-fee schedules.

The thing nobody else does

The deadline, worked out the way the bank will read it

Every credit on file carries its own last day for presenting documents, and the product recalculates it whenever a shipment date, an expiry or an amendment moves.

Shipment date plus the presentation period
Taken from field 48 where the credit states one, and 21 days where it is silent — UCP 600 sub-article 14(c).
Capped by the expiry date
If the period would run past the expiry, the deadline is the expiry. A credit cannot be presented against after it expires, however many days of the period are left. This is the case that goes wrong in a spreadsheet.
It says which of the two decided the answer
And shows the date the period would otherwise have run to, so you can see the days the cap took away rather than being told a number to trust.
Frozen when you present
An amendment afterwards does not quietly move a deadline you already met.

The half that works while the tab is closed

One email each morning, before anything closes

A missed presentation deadline is almost never a decision. It is a date nobody looked at on a week when something else was on fire.

By each company’s own clock
Seven in the morning means seven where the documentation officer is sitting, not where the server is.
In each reader’s own language
One run of the report produces the manager’s copy in Turkish and the clerk’s in English, because the language belongs to the person and not to the job.
Deadlines you have met drop off it
A digest that keeps naming work you finished is a digest people stop opening, and then the one that matters is not read either.
Silence is a failure state
The health check fails when the scheduler goes quiet — which is the failure that would otherwise stop every warning without anybody noticing.

Drawn, not retyped

The invoice and the packing list cannot disagree

Commercial invoice, packing list and bill of exchange, drawn from the credit and the shipment you already recorded. There is one gross weight, so there is one gross weight on both documents.

Field 45A goes on verbatim
The description of goods reads exactly as the credit states it, because that is what a checker compares it against.
Always in English
The documents go to a bank under a credit whose terms arrived in English. The screens around them are in your language; the paper is not, and that is deliberate.
Invoice numbers are a locked sequence
Your own prefix, no gaps, and nothing already issued is ever renumbered.
Your letterhead
Upload a logo once and it is on the screen and on the paper.

Because a dispute is about a date

An amendment is not an edit

Six months later the argument is about what the terms were on the day the goods shipped. A system that overwrote the old value cannot answer that, and neither can the person who overwrote it.

Field by field, before and after
Each amendment is a list of what changed, from what, to what — not a new version of the credit with the old one gone.
With its own acceptance status
An amendment nobody accepted has not changed the credit, and the record says which it is.
Recording and deciding are different permissions
The clerk who types what the bank sent is not necessarily the person who accepts it.

Before the courier bag is sealed

The check a bank’s checker will make, made early

About twenty rules, run against the credit on file, at the moment the set is being put together rather than after it has gone.

The amount against 32B and its tolerance
Including the plus and minus percentages in 39A, which is where an invoice drawn to the last cent still fails.
The ports against 44E and 44F, the shipment date against 44C
And partial shipment against 43P, transhipment against 43T.
The beneficiary’s address under sub-article 14(j)
A different address is allowed — but only inside the same country. A branch office presenting under a credit that names another country is discrepant on the face of the document, and that is checkable months in advance.
Refusal and warning stay different things
A refusal is something a bank could turn the set down for. A warning is not. Blurring the two teaches an operator to skim both.
You can overrule it, and it is recorded
The rules govern what the bank accepts, not what happened. A forced decision goes into the audit trail with the objection it overrode.

Do you do AI document checking?

No, and by design.

Traydstream, Cleareye and Conpend read the documents after you have made them — scanned paper, OCR, and something like 250,000 rule permutations behind it. They are good, they are expensive, and they sell to banks.

This works before the documents exist, on the data you typed, and it sells to the exporter. Detection against prevention. They are not substitutes, and a large exporter may reasonably want both.

What we will not do is claim twenty rules on typed data is the same race. It is not, and saying so would lose the first technical conversation it survived.

Prices

Metered by letters of credit, not by seats and not by documents

A five-person trade shop has a documentation officer who types, a manager who decides amendments and somebody in accounts who reads. Charging per seat pushes all three onto one shared login, which is the practice this product was built to end. And metering documents would make you think twice about drawing the third one, when the whole point is that all three come from the same dataset.

Starter

$29per month

A genuinely small shipper.

  • 5 letters of credit a month
  • Up to 3 people
  • Unlimited documents drawn
  • Deadline, digest, amendments, compliance check
  • English, Turkish, Arabic and Bangla
  • Email support
Take a founding place

Exporter

$79per month

The plan most customers want.

  • 25 letters of credit a month
  • Unlimited people
  • Unlimited documents drawn
  • Deadline, digest, amendments, compliance check
  • English, Turkish, Arabic and Bangla
  • Email support
Take a founding place

Trading house

$199per month

More than one office presenting documents.

  • 100 letters of credit a month
  • Unlimited people
  • Unlimited documents drawn
  • Deadline, digest, amendments, compliance check
  • English, Turkish, Arabic and Bangla
  • Branches — each office with its own address, country and invoice numbering
  • Email support and a named contact
Take a founding place

Prices in USD, because that is usually the currency of the credit. Checkout shows your own.

The first ten customers pay half. You will be answered by the person who built it.

Annual is ten months for twelve
Seventeen per cent off, on any of the three.
Fourteen days free, and no card
Asking for a card before you have recorded a single credit is friction bought for nothing.
The first ten customers pay half, for as long as they stay
Named on the invoice as a founding rate, so it never reads as a discount that expired. It is not generosity — it is what buys the first real exporter running a real credit through this, which is worth more than the difference several times over.

Every price is on this page. There is no “contact us for pricing”.

Where this actually is

It is built by one person, and there is no customer yet. That is why the first ten pay half, and why the offer is for as long as they stay rather than for three months.

What exists: twenty-three screens, four languages, the deadline, the digest, the three documents, the amendments, the compliance check, an audit trail and a role editor, all of it under test. What does not: a bulk import of the credits you already have, and the banking calendar behind article 29. Both are named here rather than discovered in week two.

If you are working credits today and one of those is a blocker, say so — the first customer gets to decide what is built next, and that is worth more to me than the money.

Start with the calculator

It is free, it asks for nothing, and it runs the same code the product bills for. Put in a shipment date, a presentation period and an expiry, and see whether the answer is the one in your spreadsheet.

The demo is a Turkish textile exporter with live credits, shipments and documents. It resets itself every hour, so nothing you do in it lasts and nothing you do in it matters.