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PSW registration: how to subscribe to Pakistan Single Window, and the fee

Subscribe to Pakistan Single Window for Rs 500 with your NTN, a SIM in your own name and NADRA biometrics. Valid 2 years. Then register with Customs.

By Ahtisham Imtiaz · Updated · 3 min read

Fee
Rs 500
Valid for
2 years
Biometrics
NADRA e-Sahulat
Paperwork
None (online)
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PSW registration costs Rs 500, paid through a PSID. You need an NTN or FTN, your CNIC, a SIM registered in your own name, access to the email on your FBR record, and biometric verification at a NADRA e-Sahulat centre; a company also gives its SECP number. Your user ID is valid for two years, and renewal costs another Rs 500 with fresh biometrics. After subscribing you register with Customs as a trader and link your bank account by IBAN.

Registering on Pakistan Single Window (PSW) is called subscribing, and it costs Rs 500. You need your NTN, a SIM registered in your own name, the email on your FBR record, and biometric verification at a NADRA e-Sahulat centre. The whole thing is online and paperless. Your user ID lasts two years; renewing costs another Rs 500.

What do I need?

  • an NTN or FTN (or STRN). Foreign nationals and people without an NTN can also subscribe.
  • for a company, its SECP registration number
  • your CNIC
  • a mobile SIM registered against your own CNIC. Company-registered numbers aren’t accepted.
  • access to the email on your FBR (IRIS) record. If you can’t open it, update it with FBR first.

For a company, any one director whose details FBR holds completes the mobile and biometric checks.

How do I subscribe, step by step?

  1. Go to psw.gov.pk and click Subscribe.
  2. Enter the first 7 digits of your NTN and click Validate. PSW pulls your STRN, business name, activity and CNIC from FBR. Add your mobile and email.
  3. Pay Rs 500 using the PSID (payment slip ID) at a bank counter, ATM, internet or mobile banking. The PSID expires in 2 days.
  4. Verify your mobile and email with the one-time codes.
  5. Go to a NADRA e-Sahulat centre with biometric facility, taking your CNIC, the PSW Application ID and your phone.
  6. Set your user ID and password from the link PSW emails you.

PSW says getting a user ID now takes minutes rather than days, once your biometrics are done. If your fingerprints won’t scan, you can be verified in person at a Customs collectorate instead, but you can’t file declarations until then.

What do I do after subscribing?

  • Register with Customs as a trader: in PSW, open Registration, click Trader, choose business name, address, city and Commercial or Non-Commercial, and upload documents. Businesses with several directors or partners add an authority letter.
  • Link your bank: go to Registration, then Banks, then Associate New Profile, and enter your IBAN with the email and mobile registered with that bank. Your bank then sends your trade profile and financial instruments (LC, advance payment, contract) to PSW. These replaced the old EIF and EFE forms.
  • File declarations: you file import and export declarations through PSW’s Single Declaration, which ends with a PSID to pay duties.

Customs agents register separately by validating their licence number.

WeBOC or PSW?

WeBOC is still Customs’ core system, and PSW sits on top of it. PSW says everything traders could do in WeBOC is available in PSW. If another agency’s permit or certificate applies to your goods, you must file through PSW’s Single Declaration.

What about renewal and other fees?

Other PSW charges:

What Fee
Updating your profile (CNIC, mobile, city, FBR sync) Rs 500
Each goods declaration, value up to Rs 50,000 nil
Each goods declaration, Rs 50,000 to Rs 1 crore Rs 500
Each goods declaration, above Rs 1 crore Rs 1,000

The goods declaration fees are from PSW’s December 2022 circular; we couldn’t confirm whether they’ve changed since.

Starting out? See the full import/export checklist, whether you need a licence and how to find your HS code.

More guides: Import & Export.

Questions people ask

What is the PSW registration fee?

Rs 500, paid through a PSID at a bank, ATM, internet or mobile banking (as of October 2026). Your user ID lasts two years and renewal costs another Rs 500.

What do I need to register on PSW?

An NTN or FTN (plus the SECP number for a company), your CNIC, a mobile SIM registered in your own name, access to the email on your FBR record, and NADRA biometric verification.

What is the difference between WeBOC and PSW?

WeBOC is still Customs' core system; PSW sits on top of it as the main portal for traders. Everything traders could do in WeBOC is available in PSW, and filing through PSW's Single Declaration is mandatory when another agency's permit applies.

Can I use a company mobile number?

No. PSW checks the number against the mobile database and it must be registered against the subscriber's own CNIC.

Is there a fee per shipment?

Yes, separately from the subscription. Under PSW's December 2022 circular, each goods declaration costs nil up to Rs 50,000 in value, Rs 500 up to Rs 1 crore and Rs 1,000 above that.

Sources

  1. PSW Subscription (overview, steps and FAQ), Pakistan Single Window (accessed 7 Oct 2026)
  2. User Manual: PSW Subscription and Registration with Customs (March 2025), Pakistan Single Window (accessed 7 Oct 2026)
  3. S.R.O. 2296(I)/2022: PSW Evidence of Identity Rules, 2022, Revenue Division / FBR (accessed 7 Oct 2026)
  4. PSW Renewal Subscription, Pakistan Single Window (accessed 7 Oct 2026)
  5. Everything you need to know: WeBOC and PSW, Pakistan Single Window (accessed 7 Oct 2026)
  6. Elimination of EIF and EFE, Pakistan Single Window (accessed 7 Oct 2026)
  7. Single Declaration: Import, Pakistan Single Window (accessed 7 Oct 2026)
  8. Circular PSW/Dom/313: fee on every Goods Declaration (27 Dec 2022), Pakistan Single Window (accessed 7 Oct 2026)

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