About TradeComplianceSoftware.org

This site exists because trade compliance software — the tooling that decides whether your shipment clears, your counterparty is legal, and your duty bill is right — has no independent review layer. The content that ranks is vendors reviewing themselves and AI content farms that have never opened the products. Meanwhile 2025–2026 turned trade compliance from a back-office function into a board-level problem.

Who runs it

Annik Sobing, owner and editor. I host the Simply Trade podcast (presented by Global Training Center), where I’ve spent years interviewing the people who live this work — customs brokers, export control officers, heads of trade compliance — on export controls, sanctions, tariffs, and customs. Those conversations are exactly where the questions this site answers come from: practitioners keep asking which tools are worth it, what they cost, and who actually owns them, and nobody independent was writing it down.

Transparency about my affiliations: Simply Trade is presented by Global Training Center, a trade education and training company. GTC sells training, not software — it has no stake in any vendor reviewed here, and no vendor has any commercial relationship with this site.

Why trust it

• Named, checkable authorship — no pseudonymous "experts."
• No affiliate links or paid placements (as of July 2026); full policy in the methodology.
• Every vendor fact is sourced and dated; corrections land within 72 hours.
• We publish what vendors won’t: pricing research, ownership maps, and honest "use X when…" guidance.

Contact

Corrections, vendor updates, practitioner tips: editor@tradecompliancesoftware.org. If you run compliance at an importer/exporter and want to share what your tooling actually costs (we anonymize), you make the pricing research better for everyone.