You buy the gold.
The rest files itself.

No. Buying is a two-minute flow at the counter: identity, item, weight, price, done. The police book, AML checks and invoice generate and file themselves from that same record. When something is genuinely missing, the system raises exactly one specific question to one accountable person rather than leaving a task for later. Compliance that becomes a separate task becomes deferred work, and deferred work is what supervisors fine.

You export. Every purchase carries its own evidence in one chain: seller identity, photos and weights, the price formula that produced the number, the filings, the retention hold, the lot it went into, and the settlement that closed it. Each step is timestamped and attributable. An inspection or a refinery dispute that used to mean a day of digging through folders becomes an export in minutes, because the record was complete when it was created rather than assembled afterwards.

You remain the obliged entity in every jurisdiction. That is the law and no software changes it. What we take on contractually: we prepare and submit filings as your service provider, under liability caps written into the agreement, and we carry professional indemnity insurance from the first paid pilot. Because every filing keeps its evidence trail and its approval record, fault is determinable rather than arguable. Every filing error has a defined remediation path, and we run it.

No. Vargent prepares and submits the filings the law already requires of you, to the channels you already file to, when you approve them. It does not volunteer anything to any authority on its own, it does not report you to a supervisor, and it has no back channel to anyone. The only party seeing your operating data is you, plus the reviewers assigned to your exceptions, working on pseudonymised queues.

In the EU. You are the data controller for your sellers’ personal data; Vargent is your processor under a data processing agreement, with standard contractual clauses named in the contract. Review queues are pseudonymised. Model-improvement use is opt-in, not default. You can export everything at any time.

Invoicing already runs on the statutory lifecycle: hash-chained records, gap-free series, immutable once confirmed. The software certification track is underway against the mandate that starts 1 January 2027 for companies and 1 July 2027 for autónomos. Until certification lands, pilots run behind gestoría-mediated invoicing, so your go-live never waits on a certificate and you are ready well before the deadline rather than in the rush.

Free under 100 purchases a month, including the accounting feed. Above that, a flat monthly band set by your trailing-quarter volume, €149 to €349 per location. Settlement recovery is a success fee on money we actually recover for you, never on money we don’t. Catching up unstarted past periods is a one-off.

Two things worth knowing. There is no per-transaction charge, deliberately: the next purchase is always free, so nothing is ever cheaper to keep out of the record. And for most shops this redirects the legacy license plus gestoría line you already pay rather than adding a new one.

We match what incumbents do at the counter: intake, police book, invoicing, custody. That part is table stakes and we do not pretend otherwise. The difference is the half nobody covers: reconciling what the refinery actually paid against what your lot should have earned, doing the compliance work rather than handing you a tool for it, and pricing on outcomes instead of licenses. Migration of your existing records is part of onboarding, not a project you run alone.

That is the module people underestimate. Every lot carries an expected settlement calculated from its own contents. When the assay, fees and payment come back, we reconcile line by line, in your currency, across fee schedules. Variance is not a number on a dashboard: recoverable variance becomes an action, either a question to you or a documented dispute with the refinery, with the evidence attached. Settlements typically vary from expectation by fractions of a percent, which nobody measures and which adds up over a year.

No. The journal feed is margin-scheme correct and goes to your existing gestoría, who imports it in minutes instead of rebuilding your month from receipts. Full books-done through our accounting partner is available if you want it, and is never required. You keep your accountant, they get a much easier client.

Works with what you have. Vargent runs on a phone, tablet or the computer already on the counter. Instrument outputs, including scales and assay devices, are ingested as evidence rather than replaced, so your existing equipment keeps working and your existing brands stay yours. No appliance to buy.

Covered. Business sellers, other dealers and aggregators go through the same flow with business verification instead of personal identity: company ID, beneficial ownership, counterparty record. The new EU rules cover those transactions too, and split or deferred payment schedules to the seller are handled as part of the record rather than tracked on the side.

You keep buying. Capture works offline and queues locally; records sync, file and reconcile when the connection returns, keeping their original timestamps and evidence. A dropped line delays a filing, it never costs you a purchase or breaks the record.

They come with you. Migration from your current system is part of onboarding and we do the work. If earlier periods were never properly recorded, catching them up is a defined one-off task with its own quote, so you start compliant rather than starting with a gap behind you.

Days, not months. A single shop typically goes live within a week of the kickoff session, chains in stages, location by location. Every new behaviour rolls out to one site first, then wider, so nothing changes across your whole operation at once.

A new country is a rule pack on the same core, not a rebuild. Finland and Spain are first, Italy next, France after. If you operate somewhere else, tell us: design partners shape the pack for their own market and go live first in it.

You export everything and leave. Records in inspector-accepted formats, plus the full underlying data. No exit fee, no hostage-taking of your legal records, no period where you cannot prove your own compliance. The reason customers stay is that the record is worth having, and that is the only lock-in we want.