CBSA charges zero. The price you pay is for software, brokerage, or a missed-filing AMPS penalty.
CBSA does not charge a per-filing fee for ACI eManifests. The number you actually pay is whatever software, brokerage, or service you choose to file through. The government side is free.
That reframes the real question. Cost isn't "how much does ACI cost" — it's "what's the cheapest way to stay compliant given my volume?" Below that question sits one important wrinkle: AMPS penalties for late, missing, or inaccurate ACI filings can dwarf the per-manifest cost of any tool.
BorderPro pricing is published on the pricing page and is flat-tier — no per-manifest surge pricing, no surprise overages.
CBSA enforces ACI through AMPS — the Administrative Monetary Penalty System. Per-incident penalties depend on the contravention code and the carrier's compliance history. The pattern that matters: repeat offences escalate quickly. A second or third miss can be several times the base amount, and a single bad month can produce a penalty that exceeds a full year of BorderPro filings.
Software pays for itself by eliminating the operational gaps that trigger AMPS: late filing, missing data, conveyance-cargo mismatches, port-code errors. See the AMPS guide and the AMPS estimator to size the risk against your operation.
Zero. CBSA does not charge carriers a per-filing fee. Any cost you pay is for software, brokerage, or service — not for the filing itself going to CBSA.
For very low volume, the CBSA eManifest Portal is free. For owner-operators and growing fleets, BorderPro's free tier (5 shipments/month) is the cheapest path that still has preflight validation and PARS-lead-sheet automation.
It depends on the contravention code and the carrier's compliance history. Repeat offenders escalate — a single bad month can produce a penalty exceeding a year of software cost. This is why preflight validation matters more than the per-manifest sticker price.
Third-party software pays for engineering, hosting, CBSA certification, support, and tooling the portal doesn't include — preflight validation, saved profiles, batch filing, PARS lead sheets, status webhooks, mobile apps. Carriers move to software once those time savings outweigh the per-manifest cost.
No credit card. CBSA charges $0 either way — only pay for software when you grow.
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