Your papersbecome your profile.
Upload the documents you already have. Merco reads them, drafts your profile and brings you the tech packs you can make. Buyers see a rating they can trust; you see what lifts it.
Joining: Upload what you already have.
Chamber of commerce, RUT, bank letter, audits, certificates, invoices. Each one is read and checked against the others.
Your profile: Drafted from your papers. Yours to change.
Every field says which document it came from, and every field stays editable.
Requests: Invited because you can make it.
A tech pack lists the machines and processes it needs. You are asked when you hold the must-haves, and you see why.
Rating: Your rating, and what lifts it.
Your standing in the EU and the US, law by law, with the one document worth the most next.
Joining
Nine steps. Most arrive already filled.
The application reads your documents at step two. From there each step is drafted from them: you confirm, correct, or fill what is missing. Nothing is submitted until you review it.
- 01CompanyWhich company are we onboarding?
- 02DocumentsWhich documents do you have?
- 03LegalIs this your company, as your papers describe it?
- 04SitesWhere do you produce?
- 05What you makeWhat do you make?
- 06Supply chainsWhere does your material come from?
- 07CertificatesWhich certificates and audits do you hold?
- 08TradeHow do you export?
- 09ReviewIs everything right?
Documents
What we read, and what each one proves.
PDFs, scans, photos or spreadsheets, in Spanish, Portuguese or English. Send them under the names you know them by — the Colombian name is shown for each.
Identity 3
- Business registrationCertificado de Existencia y Representación Legal (Cámara de Comercio)Legal name, tax ID, legal representative, registered address and activities
- Legal representative IDCédula de ciudadaníaIdentity of the person who signs for the company
- Beneficial ownersRUB — Registro Único de Beneficiarios Finales / composición accionariaWho ultimately owns and controls the company
Tax 1
- Tax registrationRUT (DIAN, formulario 001)Tax ID with check digit, fiscal address, economic activities, exporter/importer responsibilities
Finance 2
- Bank certificateCertificación bancariaThe payout account belongs to the company
- Financial statementsEstados financieros / declaración de rentaSize and solvency of the company
Labour 3
- Social security paymentsCertificado de aportes al sistema de seguridad social y parafiscales (Art. 50 Ley 789/2002)Workers are formally employed and contributions are paid — headcount and period
- Health & safety systemSG-SST — autoevaluación de estándares mínimos (Res. 0312 de 2019)An occupational health and safety system is in place and scored
- Social auditAn independent audit of working conditions at a site — rating and findings
Environment 2
- Environmental permitPermiso de vertimientos / licencia ambientalThe site may discharge / operate under the environmental authority
- Waste registration / disposalRegistro RESPEL / certificado de disposición finalHazardous and textile waste is registered and disposed of by a licensed handler
Certification 3
- Management system certificateA certified quality / environmental / security management system
- Scope certificateA site is certified to a content standard (GRS, RCS, GOTS, OCS, RWS) for listed products and processes
- Product certificateMaterials are tested/certified for harmful substances (OEKO-TEX, bluesign)
Supply chain 4
- Transaction certificateA specific certified shipment passed from a seller to a buyer — the link between two stations
- Supplier invoiceFactura electrónica de venta (DIAN)Who actually sells what to whom — a documented supply link
- Supplier listListado / mapa de proveedoresThe supplier’s own declaration of its upstream — to be matched against evidence
- Subcontracting agreementContrato de maquila / taller satéliteProduction is outsourced to a named workshop — a station that must be mapped
Product 2
- Lab test reportChemical or physical test results for a material or product
- Material specificationComposition, weight and construction of a material
Trade 3
- Import declarationDeclaración de importación (DIAN, formulario 500)Which materials come from abroad, from whom, of what origin — decides rules of origin
- Export declarationDeclaración de exportación (DEX, formulario 600)The company exports — destination, port, HS codes
- Origin documentDeclaración juramentada de origen (VUCE) / certificado de origenWhich products qualify as originating under a trade agreement, and on what criterion
Requests
Matched to what your floor can make.
Buyers do not browse your catalogue. They describe a garment; its tech pack is turned into the machines and processes it needs, and the request goes to the factories that have them.
The tech pack decides
Seam taping, laminates, a storm hood: each construction on the sheet becomes a requirement, marked must-have or nice-to-have. Must-haves are things a factory can actually lack.
Evidence counts
Every capability you declare carries its evidence: proven by a delivered order, shown in a document, or told to us. Proven ranks first; a claim still counts, and says so.
Saying no helps
Pass on a request and say which capability stopped you. It corrects your profile, so the next request fits. Buyers see your country, rating and price, not your name, until they award.
Rating
One gate, one grade.
The gate says whether you are who you say you are. The grade says how ready you are for the laws your buyers import under, scored separately for the EU and the US from your evidence.
Gate
Verified, Provisional or Flagged, from identity, registry and adverse-media checks. Unrated until the first check runs.
A–E
A grade per market, from every law that applies to what you make. Each law is scored from your evidence, and a law that does not apply to you is shown as not applicable, not as a pass.
Approved
Verified, graded A, B, C, and no critical gate open. The desk always shows the one document that would lift your grade the most.
EU 9 laws
- SKU-level material composition data
- Structured product master data
- DPP technical readiness (digital, exportable)
- Unsold-goods handling policy & data
- No exposure to flagged regions/entities
- Valid social audits (SA8000/SMETA/BSCI)
- Supply-chain mapping depth (tier 2+)
- Recruitment & labour-rights policy
- Clean adverse-media profile
- HR & environmental due-diligence policy
- Grievance mechanism
- Periodic risk-assessment process
- Third-party audit cadence
- GHG emissions data (scope 1+2)
- Energy / water / waste metrics
- Digital ESG data-request capability
- Claims backed by verifiable evidence
- Recognised certification schemes behind claims
- No banned generic claims in market-facing copy
- EPR scheme registration (per member state)
- Recyclability / mono-material share
- Production waste data tracked
- Fibre-composition labelling (EU 1007/2011)
- Care labelling (EN ISO 3758)
- EU responsible person designated (GPSR)
- Restricted-substance testing (OEKO-TEX / AFIRM)
- Input chemistry policy (ZDHC MRSL)
- PFAS phase-out trajectory
- Plot geolocation & satellite verification
- Art. 9 information package ready for the importer
- Plot-to-product traceability
- Country benchmark exposure
US 3 laws
- No XUAR / Entity List nexus in the chain
- Raw-fibre origin proven to farm/gin (tier 4)
- CBP evidence dossier assembled
- Supply-chain mapping depth (tier 2+)
- Social audits & clean adverse-media profile
- Fibre content disclosure (16 CFR 303)
- Country-of-origin marking (19 U.S.C. §1304)
- Care labelling (16 CFR 423)
- FTC Registered Identification Number on file
- Listed-substance testing (lead, phthalates, azo dyes)
- Warning determination & labelling process
- PFAS-free declaration (AB 1817)
- Input chemistry policy (ZDHC MRSL)
Open a law for what it asks of a factory.
Getting paid
Funded before you cut. Released in stages.
The buyer funds the order before production starts. The release terms are part of your quote, so you know when each part of the money moves.
Questions