Stop paying an intermediary for every entry and waiting on someone else to prepare it. When your own team files in CDUK, you get full control and complete visibility of every declaration, at a price you can see before you file. Our UK team backs you up with onboarding, training and support. Pay only per declaration, with no monthly fee, and see every entry from preparation to HMRC’s response.
Bringing customs filing in-house means your own team prepares and submits GB Customs Declaration Service (CDS) declarations directly to HMRC, instead of sending every consignment to an intermediary and paying a fee on each entry. Customs Declarations UK gives you guided CDS workflows, saved information and AI document processing (IDP) to build each entry from your invoices and packing lists, all on one account.
The gains are practical. You save time, because nobody has to brief an outside party, wait for a draft or chase a status. You save cost, because you pay a clear per-declaration price, or a subscription with volume discounts, instead of a margin on every entry. You have full control, because you see each declaration, its history and HMRC’s response the moment it happens.
We run onboarding and training and stay on hand once you are live, and you can start with your routine entries and widen from there at your own pace. CDS, safety and security, transit and GMR declarations all live on the same account.
In-house filing with CDUK suits any business that ships regularly and wants to own its declarations. If the foundations are already in place you can start straight away, and if they are not, our team helps you build them.
Moving in-house is a short, guided process. Our team works through each step with you, so by the day you file for real you have already seen the whole journey in the platform. Accounts are activated instantly and there is no minimum volume, so you can start small.
Pick a trade lane or product range to begin with. List the declarations, ports and formalities involved, and bring the safety and security filings and transport references onto the same account so nothing sits outside your view. Your team learns on entries it already understands, and the saved data carries into the next lane.
We help you confirm your registrations, authorisations and duty and import VAT arrangements, then set up your trader profiles and saved parties. For inventory-linked ports we connect you through CSPs, and GVMS (RoRo) movements and export declarations need no badge. Registration and set-up are done once, then every filing builds on them.
Build each entry with guided CDS workflows, saved information and IDP, which turns your documents into a reviewable draft. You decide the classification, value, origin and procedure, and the platform guides and checks them. Templates and declaration cloning cut the keying on repeat shipments. Real-time validation catches mistakes before submission.
Submit directly to HMRC and see customs responses as they arrive, with notifications and a full history on every declaration. Corrections happen on your timetable. Nobody has to ring round to find out what happened to an entry, and everything is stored against the declaration.
Compare what you do and pay today with how filing in CDUK works, line by line. The gains come from cutting per-entry fees and hand-offs, and the calculator below lets you test them against your own figures.
| Paying an intermediary | Filing in-house with CDUK |
|---|---|
| A fee on every entry, set by someone else | A maximum price per declaration, no monthly fee, or a subscription with volume discounts. See our pricing page. |
| Briefing an intermediary and waiting for drafts | Building the entry yourself from saved data and IDP |
| Asking for status and corrections, then waiting | Seeing responses live and correcting directly |
| Limited visibility of what was filed and when | Full history, audit trail and our UK team to help |
| Port or third-party charges passed through | No badge for GVMS or export declarations, with clear charges shown |
Count time and control as well as fees: faster preparation, fewer hand-offs and direct visibility add to the saving.
Enter your own annual figures for today and for filing in CDUK. Nothing is prefilled, so the result reflects your real workload, and we are happy to go through it with you.
An estimate built from your own figures. A positive result means today's costs exceed the in-house costs you entered, and it covers only the costs you enter.
Discuss your numbers with usEvery route ends with your team filing in CDUK, and you choose the pace. Begin with your routine entries, bring your harder lanes across with our help, or move one lane at a time.
Repeat shipments with reliable product data are the quickest place to begin. Your team prepares and submits them with guided workflows and saved information, and sees every customs response as it arrives. You see each response the moment it arrives, so corrections are made the same day, and the audit trail shows who did what on each entry.
Special procedures, unusual goods and occasional lanes fit into the same account once your team is comfortable. Our onboarding and training are aimed at exactly these entries, with guided wizards and validation checking each step. You keep the full record of what was declared and why.
One account, one owner per shipment, one full history.
Plan your complex entriesA defined first scope makes it easy to check data quality and staff readiness. Add lanes as you gain confidence, with no minimum volume and no monthly fee, so the cost follows the entries you actually file. Each new lane reuses the saved parties, templates and training you already have.
Yes. Begin with the routine lanes you know best, then bring the rest across as your team gains confidence. There is no minimum volume, so you pay only for what you file. Our team plans the rollout with you, and starting small costs nothing extra.
Our UK team trains your people on the platform: wizards, saved data, IDP, review and submission. Sessions are shaped around your own shipments and your own team. You make the classification, value, origin and procedure decisions, and the platform guides and checks them. Every declaration has a full audit trail, and support stays available after go-live.
You can, though a defined first scope is often the easiest start, so data quality and staff readiness are easy to check. Accounts are activated instantly, and we agree the rollout around your operation. Your team keeps filing while it learns, with our support alongside.
No port badge is needed for GVMS movements or export declarations, and we connect inventory-linked ports and airports through the CSPs CNS, MCP/Destin8 and CCS-UK. Read our guide to submitting GB import declarations without a port badge to see how it works.
You pay as you go with no monthly fee and no minimum volume, up to £25 per CDS declaration, or choose a subscription with volume discounts. Prices are published up front, so you can work out your own cost per entry before you register. IDP carries no per-document fee, and Goods Vehicle Movement Service (GVMS) GMR creation is free when the declaration is filed with us. See our pricing page.
Read the getting started guide, then book a demo with your own shipment so we can walk through setup, review and submission. Your account is activated instantly once you register, and our team is on hand if you want a walkthrough before your first entry.
Bring a typical shipment and we will walk through setup, review and submission in the platform. Start with routine entries, see the saving on your own numbers, and have your team filing with our UK team on hand to help. Register now, or book a demo and we will build the first entry with you.
