Check the stock once. Then stop having to remember.

Federal law prohibits selling a recalled product. Meeting that by hand means searching thousands of notices every time something comes through the door — and then doing it again when a recall lands next month on a cot you took in last spring. Nobody has that time, and no free lookup tool solves it, because a lookup tool forgets the item the moment you close the tab.

What it actually does

Takes the list you already keep. Your spreadsheet, your column names, your abbreviations. You are never asked to fill in our template — if a product makes a shop do data entry on its behalf, the shop stops using it by week three.
Checks every item against the recalls we monitor and sorts them into three groups: pull it, look at it, or nothing found.
Re-checks everything still on the floor, twice a day. This is the part that matters. A recall published in June finds the pushchair you took in in March.
Emails you when an item moves to do not sell — or is first imported as one. Not a daily digest: after that, if nothing changes, you hear nothing. A quiet week is not the same as a clean floor, though — your dashboard shows when each source was last checked successfully, so you can look rather than assume.
Keeps a record of what was checked, against how many recalls, and when. Written by us, not by you, so it is worth something to somebody asking.
Sends you a dated summary once a month — how many items were checked, against how many recalls, and whether anything moved. One email a month you can file.

Create your shop account →See it working on an example shop →

Free while the pilot runs, no card. If you were sent a pilot code there’s a box for it on the form.

The three answers, and why there are three

The first version of this had one flag. On a real twenty-five item inventory it lit up twenty-one of them. Four in five items carrying the same red mark is not a safety tool, it is wallpaper — you stop reading it in week two, and then the one that mattered gets skipped too. So the flag is split by how good the evidence actually is.

Do not sell

We can name the product — a model number, a distinctive term from the recall’s own wording, or a class of product banned outright. Not a cousin of it. This one.

Worth checking

The brand and category line up with a recall, but nothing names this exact product. Somebody holding the item can settle it in a minute; we can’t from here, and pretending otherwise would have you pulling sellable stock.

Nothing found

Checked, and nothing in the published recalls lines up. That is not the same as safe — most recall notices carry no model number at all, so “nothing found” is the strongest true thing anybody can say.

Every flag shows its working

A verdict with no reason behind it is useless. “Worth checking” means go and look at this — so it has to say what to look at. Each flag links straight through to the agency’s own notice, with the reason in plain words: whether the model number matched, whether the recall names this product, or whether it is only the same brand and category.

We are not asking anyone to take our word for anything. The Recall Registry is not a government service, cannot certify that a product is safe, and never will.

What we watch, and what we don’t

Monitoring covers durable children’s things — cots and bassinets, car seats, swings and bouncers, carriers and pushchairs, toys, children’s clothing and nursery furniture. If that is most of what comes through your door, this fits. If your stock is mostly something else, tell us before you import it and we’ll say honestly whether it helps.

We don’t watch medicines and medical devices, food and vehicles.

Medicines and medical devices — the form declines them and points you at the agency that handles them
Food — same — declined at the point of entry, not accepted and half-checked
Vehicles — no VIN or number-plate lookup of any kind

All of those recalls are still in the free search — you can look up a medicine, a food or a car here today. What we don’t do is add them to a list and watch them for you. Search all recalls →

Try it with your stock

Free while it’s in pilot, in exchange for telling us honestly what works and what doesn’t. No card, no contract, and you can stop whenever you like.

Create your free pilot account →

About a minute — an email address and a password, and you’re in. No card. Bring the stock list you already keep, in whatever shape it is in.

Already registered? Sign in.

Rather talk to someone first?

Tell us a bit about the shop and we’ll write back — usually within a day or two. You don’t have to do this before making an account; it’s here if you would rather ask than click.

Honestly, where this is

It works, it is running, and a handful of shops are being invited to use it free while we learn what works and what doesn’t. It has not yet been used by dozens of businesses for a year, and anyone telling you otherwise about a product this age would be lying to you.

What you would be signing up for is early access and a direct line to the person building it. What we want back is your honest read on it — where it helps, and where it gets in the way.

The Recall Registry is a trade name of Umbrum Holdings LLC. Checking is not legal advice, and the responsibility for what a shop sells remains the shop’s.