Gateway is customs software for logistics service providers and customs agents. The package handles import and export declarations in the Dutch DMS system, bonded-warehouse administration, customs processes for e-commerce and excise documents (EMCS), with interfaces to Portbase, NVWA systems and warehouse or ERP systems. Validation checks and a single central database are meant to avoid double data entry. According to the vendor it is a SaaS solution used in the browser, and the software can also be hosted in the vendor's own Gateway Cloud.
Gateway Software Services B.V. is based in Capelle aan den IJssel, the Netherlands; its site names no parent company. The site does not state where the Gateway Cloud or the SaaS service is hosted, so organisations should ask the vendor about the processing location and the sub-processors used. Customs declarations contain trade and shipment data, so the vendor's jurisdiction matters. A Dutch vendor with no foreign owner named falls under European law, and the software connects to Dutch and European government systems.