Cautia

Cautia

Send us a file

Supplier product data, checked before it reaches your systems.

Forward the file your supplier just sent you. We check it against the fields each European market legally requires to list the product, close the gaps we can, and tag where every value came from.

Send us a file

Free for your first batch, up to 250 SKUs. Full report back within five working days.

01 — The problem

The file arrives incomplete, and you find out later.

A supplier sends you a product file. A PDF, a spreadsheet, an export from a system nobody at the brand still maintains. Most of what you need is in there.

What is missing is not obvious. It surfaces later, when one marketplace blocks a listing in one country and not the others, or when a fee gets calculated from a number somebody estimated once and nobody has revisited since.

Every country you sell into changes the required field set. The same product, fine to list in one market, is incomplete in the next. That fan-out is the problem, and it grows with every market you add.

A supplier sends you a product file. A PDF, a spreadsheet, an export from a system nobody at the brand still maintains. Most of what you need is in there.

What is missing is not obvious. It surfaces later, when one marketplace blocks a listing in one country and not the others, or when a fee gets calculated from a number somebody estimated once and nobody has revisited since.

Every country you sell into changes the required field set. The same product, fine to list in one market, is incomplete in the next. That fan-out is the problem, and it grows with every market you add.

02 — What Cautia does

One step before your PIM, ERP or spreadsheet.

You forward the supplier file, in whatever format it arrived. Cautia extracts and normalises it and resolves the product identity to a GTIN.

From there we work out which obligations each product triggers in each country you sell into, and check the file against the fields legally required to place it there. What can be closed from public registers gets closed.

You get back a gap report. What is present, what we closed, what is still missing, and where you are exposed.

You forward the supplier file, in whatever format it arrived. Cautia extracts and normalises it and resolves the product identity to a GTIN.

From there we work out which obligations each product triggers in each country you sell into, and check the file against the fields legally required to place it there. What can be closed from public registers gets closed.

You get back a gap report. What is present, what we closed, what is still missing, and where you are exposed.

Nothing to integrate. No access to your systems. No IT project, no procurement, no security review. It is an email.

03 — Provenance

Every value says where it came from.

A number in a compliance field is only worth as much as your ability to show how you arrived at it.

So every field Cautia returns is tagged: sourced from the supplier, closed from a register, derived from a rule, or estimated. You can see which values you can stand behind and which still need a supplier email.

That distinction is the difference between data you can file and data you hope nobody checks.

We are not going to pretend the split is even. The fields that resist closure are the ones fees get calculated from: packaging weight by fraction, cell chemistry, battery weight. That is where the estimates land, and we mark every one of them, so you decide what to do about it now rather than finding out at audit.

A number in a compliance field is only worth as much as your ability to show how you arrived at it.

So every field Cautia returns is tagged: sourced from the supplier, closed from a register, derived from a rule, or estimated. You can see which values you can stand behind and which still need a supplier email.

That distinction is the difference between data you can file and data you hope nobody checks.

We are not going to pretend the split is even. The fields that resist closure are the ones fees get calculated from: packaging weight by fraction, cell chemistry, battery weight. That is where the estimates land, and we mark every one of them, so you decide what to do about it now rather than finding out at audit.

Sourced

Taken directly from the supplier file.

Taken directly from the supplier file.

Closed

Filled from a public register or our product graph.

Filled from a public register or our product graph.

Derived

Calculated from a rule applied to known values.

Calculated from a rule applied to known values.

Estimated

Our best figure, flagged as such, for you to approve or replace.

Our best figure, flagged as such, for you to approve or replace.

04 — What it costs you now

You are already paying for this.

An estimate that is too conservative does not cost you once. Over-declare a packaging weight and you pay the difference on every unit, every reporting cycle, for as long as you sell the product. Nobody goes back to check, because nobody knows the number is wrong.

Then there is the assembly. Chasing a supplier for a weight, digging through a register for a registration number, filling a field by hand because the file did not have it. That work never appears on an invoice, which is exactly why it never gets counted.

And a gap found late costs more than a gap found early. One email at onboarding becomes a resync, an edit on every marketplace, a restatement after the sale, and an archaeology project when someone finally asks for the file.

The first two are recoverable. The report tells you where.

05 — Who this is for

Built for companies selling into many European markets.

Worth your time if you sell into four or more European markets, your catalogue includes electronics, batteries, toys, cosmetics, lighting, machinery, chemicals or food-contact goods, and you import directly from outside the EU or run private label.

Most useful when new products arrive from suppliers regularly, rather than once a year. The pain scales with how fast you onboard, not with how large the catalogue already is.

If you sell into one or two countries, a competent person with a spreadsheet keeps up. The problem starts when the required field set changes per market, and when the gap is only visible across the whole file rather than on any row you open.

Worth your time if you sell into four or more European markets, your catalogue includes electronics, batteries, toys, cosmetics, lighting, machinery, chemicals or food-contact goods, and you import directly from outside the EU or run private label.

Most useful when new products arrive from suppliers regularly, rather than once a year. The pain scales with how fast you onboard, not with how large the catalogue already is.

If you sell into one or two countries, a competent person with a spreadsheet keeps up. The problem starts when the required field set changes per market, and when the gap is only visible across the whole file rather than on any row you open.

06 — Send us a file

Send us your next supplier file.

07 — Where we are

Cautia is early.

We are working with a small number of companies to decide what Cautia takes on first. They have direct influence over what gets built and in what order.

Right now we want one thing more than anything else: what actually got blocked, suppressed or delisted on you in the last six months. Not the risk. The incident. If that has happened to you we would like to hear about it, whether or not you ever send us a file.

We are working with a small number of companies to decide what Cautia takes on first. They have direct influence over what gets built and in what order.

Right now we want one thing more than anything else: what actually got blocked, suppressed or delisted on you in the last six months. Not the risk. The incident. If that has happened to you we would like to hear about it, whether or not you ever send us a file.

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