Finance and Compliance

When you file an export declaration through ExportDocuments, you’re using PORT. It’s the platform that sits behind the webshop: handling the form, the HMRC connection, and your compliance records.

PORT is aimed specifically at the VAT specialists and accountants who advise exporting businesses. If your adviser works with clients who export, PORT is worth putting in front of them.

Two audiences, one platform

ExportDocuments is built for the business doing the exporting: straightforward, flat fee, no specialist knowledge needed. PORT speaks to the advisers sitting alongside those businesses, the VAT specialists and accountants who carry professional responsibility for export compliance.

The underlying platform is the same. The conversation is calibrated to who’s in the room.

What PORT gives your adviser

Carriers like UPS and DHL typically retain proof-of-export records for around six months. HMRC can request them going back four years. PORT closes that gap, giving your adviser a permanent, searchable audit trail that’s there when HMRC asks for it, not just while the carrier still has the record.

Pass it on

If your VAT adviser or accountant works with other exporting clients, the PORT site gives them everything they need to understand the compliance gap and whether it applies to their client base. A fifteen-minute conversation with Lee McMahon is enough to get a clear picture.