Sanctions and AML Screening for Retail and E-Commerce

Screen customers, marketplace sellers and suppliers against comprehensive sanctions, PEP, adverse media and criminal watchlists. High-volume batch screening, a ~350 ms API, or a Shopify app with no setup required.

Or check your market exposure in 60 seconds
~350 ms
Avg API response
Hourly
Data updates
400+
Customers
SOC 2
Type II compliant
Live order destinations
Cleared Restricted
   
 
 
Ship-to jurisdictions checked against global watchlists refreshed every 60 minutes.

Five Things That Break Screening in Retail

The pressures differ by how you sell and who you buy from. Choose one to see what applies.

Interactive

Check your market exposure

Select the markets you sell into and source from. You get each one's restriction posture, the measures that apply, and the action each demands, sorted by severity. Take it to your legal team or your board as a starting position.

Screening Across the Order and Supplier Lifecycle

Six moments where a designated party can reach the business, as a customer, a seller or a supplier. Select one to see what gets screened, and what it costs to miss it.

One API Call, Across Customers and Suppliers

High-volume batch screening

Concurrent processing of large batches with webhook notifications for the result payloads. Built for periodic sweeps of an entire customer or supplier database.

High-risk jurisdiction screening

Restricted and high-risk jurisdiction data as defined by FATF, FinCEN and OFAC, used to block orders from restricted destinations or to keep your IP blocking lists current automatically.

No setup required to start

Screen from the web portal, upload an Excel file for a batch run, or install the Shopify app. Engineering time is optional, not a prerequisite.

Audit trail your auditor accepts

Auditable timestamps on every alert, clear and override against the list snapshot used, exportable to CSV, JSON or PDF. SOC 2 compliant.

POST /v2/search
{
  "name": "Kestrel Supply Co",
  "entity_type": "company",
  "ship_to": "AE",
  "data_source": "SDN,EU,UN,HMT,PEP",
  "min_score": 0.88
}
REST + webhooksBatch endpointSandbox keySOC 2 compliant

Hear From Our Customers

"The product is amazing and the tech is tight. We integrated the sanctions.io API within a couple of days and now perform daily screenings of our entire customer base."

Dan Westgarth
COO, Deel Inc.

"Our experience with sanctions.io has been transformative for our compliance processes. Their reliable and comprehensive data feeds give us the peace of mind that comes from operating within international compliance standards."

Armand Brunelle
CTO, WeFi Technology Group

"sanctions.io combines robust, reliable and industry leading technology with hands on customer support. We implemented full passenger vetting in a matter of days and have had no issues with the API since inception."

Patrick O'Brian
Flight Operations, Innotech-Execaire Aviation Group
Next step

Twenty Minutes on Your Order and Supplier Flow

Bring your checkout flow and your supplier list. We'll map where the API call goes, what it costs at your order volume, and what changes for procurement. No deck.

What happens next
A 20-minute call
Your channels, your markets, your order volume. No discovery deck.
A sandbox key the same day
Screen real names against live lists before any contract.
Live in just days
Most teams ship in under a week.

The practical guide to sanctions screening

How screening programs are built, tuned and defended: list selection across OFAC, EU, UN and HMT/OFSI, thresholds you can defend in an examination, false-positive management, and the evidence examiners ask for.

Selecting a suitable screening vendor

The evaluation criteria that separate providers: list coverage and refresh cadence, match-quality benchmarking, latency under load, data residency, and the commercial terms that bite at volume. Includes an RFP question set.

sanctions.io product data sheet

The one-pager procurement and IT ask for: full list inventory, refresh cadence, endpoint reference, latency and uptime figures, security posture, data residency and deployment options.

Sanctions and AML Screening for Retail, Answered

The questions retail, procurement and engineering teams ask before an integration.