The whole zone, on one screen.
Every site’s activity, live — what’s in, what’s moving, what’s pending activation — and the year-to-date roll-up assembling itself from the operators’ own daily records. Shown with demonstration data.
Track every unit in the zone, know exactly what sits in your activated space, and assemble the customs paperwork — admissions, temporary removals and close-outs — ready to file yourself or hand to your customs broker.
It runs on its own — no migration, no change to any system you already use.
Every site’s activity, live — what’s in, what’s moving, what’s pending activation — and the year-to-date roll-up assembling itself from the operators’ own daily records. Shown with demonstration data.
Activating the space is its own approval. So is every trip a vessel takes off the property, and every return it has to prove. The units in the zone, the areas that are active, and the paperwork behind both have to agree at any moment CBP asks — and most operators are holding that together in a binder and a spreadsheet.
Today a temporary removal is an email to the broker, a phone call to the yard, and a guess at Customs. Here it is one request with a state, and all three parties are looking at it. Follow a real one.
Each party only makes its own move. The yard requests, departs and returns it. The broker files it, uploads the stamp and closes it. Customs reads. Nobody performs somebody else’s step, so the record can be trusted.
An audit today means somebody drives out and somebody else spends three days building a binder. The record already exists — it is just scattered across a filing cabinet, an inbox and one person’s memory. Here it is assembled the moment it is asked for.
An auditor reads a unit’s history in order — admitted, removed and returned each time, departed, proven gone. The file assembles and prints in that order.
Zone records get filed by the year the unit arrived. A vessel’s life does not respect year boundaries. So closing out something that sat two or three years means going back through previous years to find its entry and its early removals — and that is what happens when the filing is done correctly. The system is not failing; the shape of it is wrong.
Records are kept for the period Customs requires — and then kept anyway. The zone’s history stays yours for as long as you run on it, exportable on request, not thinned to the audit window.
Once a year the officer arrives, and part of it is a spot check — a handful of vessels chosen at random, pulled to see whether anything is missing or looks off. You do not get to choose which ones. A binder gets made ready once a year, in a hurry; a record kept in the system is complete all year.
Once a slip is activated you cannot simply berth the next boat in it. Either that vessel gets a domestic entry, or the slip comes back out of the zone — and both are processes with Customs on the other end. Get it wrong and a vessel is sitting in zone space it has no business being in.
This only works because the same system holds the berth assignment and the zone status. Two separate products cannot check each other.
Activating space used to mean an email, a week of waiting, and an officer arriving unannounced — sometimes leaving the notice before you knew they had been. Now it is a scheduled call and a walk round the slip with a camera. Customs moved that way on their own. The tooling just never followed.
There is nowhere to request a replacement from. Customs does not hold a copy they can hand back, and there is no way to look back at what was filed years ago. They rely on the operator to keep the paper trail — which means the filing cabinet is not a copy of the record. It is the record, and it is the only one.
Built for operators and the customs brokers who manage them across many facilities · regulatory specifics confirmed with CBP and licensed counsel.
A Foreign-Trade Zone has three parties who each need a different view of the same truth. FTZ Manager gives each one its own account type — nobody borrows somebody else’s login, and nobody sees more than their role.
Activating space used to mean a request letter, signage, photographs, and waiting for an officer to drive out. At many ports CBP now takes that inspection by video call — and FTZ Manager is built around exactly that workflow, so the request, the evidence and the outcome live on one record instead of in four inboxes.
A zone lives and dies by its records. FTZ Manager keeps the complete history — every vessel that ever passed through, every admission, removal and close-out with its CBP paperwork attached — so the annual report assembles from records that already exist, and an audit is a walkthrough instead of a scramble. Anything the auditor wants to see, you print on the spot.
Most FTZ operators can file the forms but can’t tell you whether the zone makes or loses money. FTZ Manager tracks both sides per unit, with the charge model set the way you run it — pass it through to the customer, absorb it, recover it at sale, or find out you never recover it at all. Either way, you finally see how your zone is really working for you.
On security: zone records ride an encrypted connection end to end, each facility’s data is isolated at the database layer — not by promises — and every seat is role-scoped with its access logged. Customs-facing views are read-only by design. The data belongs to the facility; the record is built to be shown.
One place to run FTZ across every facility, and one record of what returned and what didn’t.
Regulatory specifics confirmed with CBP and licensed customs counsel.