Certly vs Trustwell (FoodLogiQ)

Certly holds your supplier list and the certificate types each supplier owes you, such as allergen declarations, CoAs and audit certificates. It tracks the expiry date on every document, raises alerts at configurable thresholds of 90, 60 and 30 days before expiry, and shows one screen per plant where every certificate reads current, expiring soon, expired or missing. That screen exports to PDF for an auditor to review. That is the whole product. There is no traceability module, no recall workflow, no HACCP plan builder.

Trustwell's FoodLogiQ product line, as described in the research we gathered, is a food safety and traceability suite: supplier management with document requests sits alongside traceability, recall management, and audit and inspection management. Our research records it as sold primarily to brands, distributors and larger manufacturers, typically through demo-led enterprise sales. If you need recall readiness and supply chain traceability in the same system as your supplier documents, that is a materially different requirement from the one Certly is built for.

How to read the comparison below

Everything in the Certly column is something the product does or is being built to do, and nothing more. Certly is not open to customers yet, so there are no customer stories here and no results to quote: we are taking waitlist signups while the product is finished.

Everything in the FoodLogiQ column comes from our own desk research, dated 25 September 2026, drawn from trustwell.com and foodlogiq.com. It is deliberately thin. Where we could not establish something, the cell says so rather than guessing, and we publish no price figure for them because we found no public price list. Before you make a decision on a platform of that size, read their current pages and take the demo. A summary written by a competitor, however careful, is not a substitute for their own documentation.

Choose Trustwell's FoodLogiQ, or a suite like it, when

Supplier documents are one requirement among several. If you also need traceability across the chain, recall management and inspection workflows in a single system, a suite is the honest answer and Certly is not a substitute for it: our research records those modules on their side and we have none of them.

Your buying process expects a demo, a scoped implementation and a negotiated agreement. Larger manufacturers, brands and distributors often need that, both for internal approval and because the deployment touches more than one team. Certly is built for a QA manager who wants to be running by the end of the afternoon, which is a different kind of purchase.

Your procurement or IT review asks for things we do not have yet. We list them plainly in the table above: no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 report, no single sign-on or two-factor authentication, no data processing agreement ready to countersign, no residency choice, and no self-serve export of the full data set. If any of those is a gate you cannot pass without, that decides the question before any feature comparison does.

Your group has corporate document control standards that reach well beyond certificate expiry, or your estate is larger than 30 sites. A single-workflow tracker will not carry that weight.

Choose Certly when

The problem you can name in one sentence is that certificates go out of date and nobody notices until an auditor asks. That is the problem Certly is shaped around, and the sequence, alert at 90, 60 and 30 days, chase the supplier contact automatically, let them upload through a link with no login, then show the whole plant on one screen and export it, is the entire product rather than a module inside one.

You are one plant, or a group of up to 30 plants, with tens to a couple of hundred suppliers per site. Starter covers 50 suppliers on one site and Professional covers 200. Multi-site carries no supplier cap and covers up to 30 sites under one agreement, with sites added and switched from a single sign-in.

You want a published price before you talk to anyone. All three tiers are on the pricing page: Starter $3,228 a year, Professional $5,388 a year and Multi-site $10,788 a year, each billed annually, which works out at 269, 449 and 899 dollars a month, 10 percent off the monthly rate for paying up front. You can weigh those numbers against a re-audit fee or the hours a coordinator currently spends re-sending the same email, and decide without a call.

You want the trail an auditor asks for kept rather than tidied away. Expired certificates, versions replaced by a renewal and the full chase log stay while your account is open, and a renewal never deletes the document it replaces, so a question about the declaration that was valid last March has an answer.

You are moving off a spreadsheet and conditional formatting, and what you want is the chasing to happen without you. This is usually a step up from a spreadsheet and a calendar reminder rather than a switch from another platform.

If neither shape fits

We keep separate comparison pages for the other tools you are likely to be looking at, including TraceGains, Safefood 360° and SafetyChain, plus a wider alternatives page, a guide to choosing software as a small plant, and a page on tracking certificates across more than one plant if the multi-site question is the one you are really asking. You can see where Certly is and is not the right answer without reading the same argument twice.