Product certification coordination for US businesses

A named person on our team owns your file and reviews everything that leaves it. Software does a real share of the grinding underneath it — coding, matching, flagging the obvious gaps — but nothing regulated happens without a person’s judgement, and nothing here is signed or filed by an algorithm.

No — product certification coordination is operational work inside your books, not something submitted to IRS. Where a filing does sit downstream of it, inside registrations & licences more broadly, that stays with your CPA or enrolled agent, never with us.

Whatever you already run. Most commonly QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Sage, Zoho Books and a handful of others — we work inside your system rather than moving you onto one of our own.

A short, free read-only look at what you already have, and a written note on what we found. A scoping call decides the size of the engagement — nothing here commits you to anything.

There is no published price for product certification coordination — it depends on volume, how many entities are involved, and how far behind the books are. We quote after the read-only review, which is free.

Product certification coordination sits inside registrations & licences, alongside EIN registration, State payroll registrations, Seller’s permit registration. Most clients end up buying the category as a whole rather than one leaf at a time, but starting narrow is fine.

No. US product compliance is split across UL (or another accredited NRTL) for electrical/fire safety, the FCC for radio-frequency emissions, and CPSC for general consumer-product safety with a Children's Product Certificate layered on for kids' products. A single product commonly needs more than one of these at the same time.

No. Devices that only incidentally emit RF as a byproduct (unintentional radiators) typically clear FCC Part 15 with a self-declared Supplier's Declaration of Conformity after lab testing — no FCC ID needed. Devices built to transmit — Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cellular — almost always need full Certification through an FCC-recognized Telecommunication Certification Body, which is what issues the FCC ID.

No. Testing and certification are performed by an accredited Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (UL, Intertek, TÜV SÜD or similar) and, where FCC Certification applies, by an FCC-recognized Telecommunication Certification Body. What we do is map which regimes apply, prepare the technical file the lab or TCB needs, and manage the process end to end.

It's a manufacturer- or importer-prepared certification, required under the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act for any product primarily intended for children 12 and under, covering lead, phthalates, small-parts and other applicable CPSC standards. It carries no CPSC fee itself, but it has to be built on real third-party accredited-lab test results — we help determine whether your product falls under the children's-product rules and organize the testing behind it.

It runs weeks to a few months, depending on product complexity, the lab's queue, and whether the first round of testing surfaces a non-conformance that needs a redesign and retest. Simple products with an established test standard move faster than anything with a non-precertified radio module.

No. A UL Listing carries an ongoing obligation to unannounced factory inspections to confirm the product being manufactured still matches what was certified. A component or bill-of-materials change without notifying UL can invalidate the listing even if nothing else changed.

The change has to go back to the original lab or TCB before the modified product ships — a different power supply, a swapped radio module, or any other bill-of-materials change can take the product outside the tested and certified configuration. We track certified configurations against proposed changes so this gets caught before a shipment, not after an audit or import hold.

Yes, generally. Amazon and most major marketplaces run their own compliance-document gates for electronics categories, on top of — not instead of — the underlying federal requirements. A product that clears FCC and UL cleanly is also the product that clears a marketplace's compliance check without a listing suspension.

Product specifications, photos, a bill of materials, and a description of how the product is marketed and who it is marketed to — that last point is what determines whether children's-product rules apply. From there we build the technical documentation package the lab or TCB needs.

Not necessarily the same test, though it can be the same accredited lab handling multiple standards for one product. UL testing addresses electrical and fire-safety standards; CPSC-driven testing for a children's product addresses lead, phthalates and physical/mechanical hazards under different standards entirely — we confirm the lab's accreditation covers the specific standard each test requires.

That happens — a product with no radio and no children's-market exposure may only need UL (or NRTL-equivalent) testing. We map the regimes that actually apply to the specific product rather than testing against all three by default, so the work matches what the product genuinely needs.