CITES permit lifecycle management for the people who actually move specimens — and are tired of watching shipments rot in customs.
SpecimenPass tracks the complete import/export permit lifecycle for wildlife specimens under CITES Appendices I, II, and III, from initial application through customs clearance and re-export documentation. It cross-references every species against live CITES appendix databases, auto-populates permit forms for 47 signatory countries, and integrates directly with US Fish & Wildlife and EU TRACES so you stop filling out the same information six times. Natural history museums, auction houses, and commercial taxidermists have had this problem for decades and have been solving it with spreadsheets and prayer. That ends now.
- Full permit lifecycle tracking from application submission through final customs release, with status history that holds up to audits
- Auto-population of permit forms across 47 CITES signatory countries, pulling from a species profile you fill out exactly once
- Live cross-reference against CITES appendix databases, LEMIS, and EU TRACES — flags Appendix I specimens before you make an expensive mistake
- Direct document export in the exact formats accepted by US Fish & Wildlife Service and European Commission border inspection posts. No reformatting.
- Re-export certificate chaining, because the specimen you bought already has a paper trail and that trail needs to follow it
US Fish & Wildlife LEMIS, EU TRACES NT, CITES Species+ API, PermitFlow, AuctionBase Pro, NaturalDex, Stripe, DocuSign, FaunaTrack, ShipCompliant, FreightVerify, TaxidermyVault
SpecimenPass is built on a microservices architecture with a Node.js API layer, a React frontend, and a MongoDB core database that handles the full transactional permit ledger with ACID guarantees via multi-document sessions. Species cross-reference lookups and appendix status caches are stored long-term in Redis, keeping repeat queries under 40ms regardless of appendix update frequency. The permit document rendering engine runs as an isolated service so that adding a new country's form template never touches the core data model. Every integration runs through a unified webhook bus — when CITES updates an appendix listing, every open permit flagged to that species gets a status event within seconds.
🟢 Production. Actively maintained.
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