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We offer flexible subscription options to best fit your compliance and data management needs regardless of the size of your business.
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Basic tools to stay on store shelves
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Product Registration
Ensure your products meet the compliance requirements of over 45 retailers by submitting your product information in our secure software platform.
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Product Updates
Update existing product data and submit revisions for assessment at no additional fee. This offer excludes product name revisions.
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Product Forwarding
As a WERCSmart subscriber, you will benefit from providing your product’s regulatory assessment or sustainability information with ease to over 45 retailers. As more retailers join WERCSmart for their compliance and sustainability information, you can provide existing registrations for assessment or sustainability at any time for no additional charge.
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UPC Management
Add or remove UPCs efficiently and as needed from your existing product registrations at no additional charge.
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Personalized Client Support
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Bronze Level Service
Enjoy the benefits of having a personal, on-hand WERCSmart account agent who can help monitor and manage your daily account-servicing needs, including basic product registrations and updates.
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Market Exposure and sustainability & Sustainability
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PurView Sustainability Platform
Satisfy retailer sustainability requirements by electing to share your existing WERCSmart product data with the UL PurView platform for your sustainability assessment.
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GoodGuide Rating
Use your WERCSmart product data to generate a GoodGuide rating and add it to the GoodGuide product catalog, consumers’ trusted online resource for healthy purchasing.
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UL ECOLOGO Readiness Assessment
Recognized and referenced by more than 500 institutional procurement specifications, ECOLOGO Certification can increase market demand for your products. The ECOLOGO Certification readiness assessment evaluates the likelihood that your product can achieve certification to one of the ECOLOGO multi-attribute sustainability standards, and will expand to include other products such as personal care.
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Regulatory Support & Insights
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Product Assessment Preview
See important product assessment results in 2-business days before they are passed on to the retailer! If there are questions about your results, you will have those 2-business days to inquire with UL’s regulatory experts on the following topics: waste, transportation, California Prop 65, VOC and fire codes.
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Transportation Classification Regulatory Support
Avoid potential delays and pitfalls by relying on UL’s regulatory experts to provide information and insights into your transportation classifications. You may be eligible for exemptions and exceptions that will save you money and get your products on the store shelves faster.
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Waste Classification Regulatory Support
Many retailers are now passing the costs of regulated waste disposal on to manufacturers like you! Understanding regulated waste classification requirements and the basis for your products classifications is more important than ever. Rely on UL’s regulatory experts to review and provide guidance to minimize your costs.
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VOC Classification Regulatory Support
Regulations around VOC are growing in size and complexity. Our regulatory experts will work with you to ensure your organizations products are compliant in the markets you serve.
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A draft OSHA Compliant Safety Data Sheet
Elect to have a North American-Compliant GHS Safety Data Sheet (SDS) in a UL-approved format, for each of your active products at no additional charge. This SDS will comply with Canada, U.S. and Mexico GHS regulations.
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Note: Regulatory consulting services that are not included in the above subscription plans (i.e. select authoring and reporting) will be due upon invoicing.
Subscription pricing is determined by the number of currently active product types
Formulated Products
During the WERCSmart registration process, information about ingredients (e.g., water, ethanol, phosphoric acid) are collected.
Articles
According to OSHA regulation 1910.1200, an article is “a manufactured item other than a fluid or particle: (i) which is formed to a specific shape or design during manufacture; (ii) which has end-use function(s) dependent in whole or in part upon its shape or design during end-use; and (iii) which under normal conditions of use does not release more than very small quantities, e.g., minute or trace amounts of a hazardous chemical (as determined under paragraph (d) of this section), and does not pose a physical hazard or health risk to employees.”
Common examples include:
Enhanced Articles
Beverage registrations or products that include a lithium battery when sold to the consumer (lithium ion or lithium metal) are considered Enhanced Articles for the purpose of WERCSmart registration.
Regardless of the plan you’re on, you always have the opportunity to upgrade. If you’re not sure how, please check out the Support Center, or call Customer Support. +1 (877) 642-6753.
1. What subscription tier (i.e., product number range) should I select?
You should select your tier based on the minimum estimation of registrations you’ll make for each type of product. You can always expand your tier upward. There are restrictions on reducing your subscription. Be sure not to overestimate your possible registrations.
2. Can I increase the number of products included in my plan, or upgrade my tier selection, in the midst of my annual subscription enrollment?
Yes! You always have the opportunity to increase your tiers. You will receive a pro-rated statement once you upgrade and payment is made using your default payment method on file. You can only decrease your tier or plan upon the annual renewal date.
3. How do I pay my subscription?
We accept credit card, ACH, PayPal® or Wire Transfer. Depending on your chosen plan or tier, payments may be made monthly, quarterly or annually.
4. Can I have multiple payment methods on file?
Yes! One payment method will need to be your default payment method and is used for automated payment of your subscription.
5. Do you accept checks for payment?
Not at this time. If you are looking for a check option, you could select Wire Transfer as your payment. This will provide you an invoice and wire transfer instruction. Be aware, this payment method experiences a delay and won’t permit you to submit registrations until the wire transfer funds are received by our accounting department. Domestic wire transfers typically are resolved in just a couple of days. International wire transfers may take 5-10 days to reach our accounting department.
