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Freight

Freight operations: tariff books and client rate cards, a pricing calculator, the shipment register with tracking, and a dashboard over the book.

demo.staffdemo.admin

🗺Price it, ship it, track it

How the module fits together end to end. Colours mark who acts: navy = staff/admin, cyan = external user, green = organisation, orange = the system.

Staff
Tariff book & rate cardspricing
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Calculatorquote a lane
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Create shipment
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System
Track shipment
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Dashboardvolumes & revenue

🧭1. Shipment Quote to Delivery Process

Price it, book it, move it, prove it.

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Maintain the tariff book and rate cards. /Freight/Freight/TariffBook — the prices every quote is computed from. Tariff book
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2
Quote the load. /Freight/Freight/Calculator — route, weight and service produce the price from the cards, not from memory. Freight calculator
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3
Book the shipment. /Freight/Freight/Shipments — the accepted quote becomes a shipment with its lifecycle.
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4
Track to delivery. Status updates carry the shipment to delivered — the register is the proof of what moved, when. Shipments

💰Pricing

Tariff Book & Codes /Freight/Freight/TariffBook

The tariff structure and its codes (/Freight/Freight/TariffCode) that pricing is built on.

Rate Cards /Freight/Freight/RateCards

Negotiated rates per client/lane, layered over the tariff book.

Rate Cards

Calculator /Freight/Freight/Calculator

Quote a consignment before committing it.

  1. Enter origin, destination and the consignment particulars.
  2. The applicable rate card or tariff prices it.
Calculator

🚚Operations

Shipments /Freight/Freight/Shipments

The shipment register; open one (/Freight/Freight/Shipment) for its lifecycle and tracking.

  1. Create the shipment from a quote or afresh.
  2. Update statuses as it moves; the dashboard (/Freight/Freight/Dashboard) aggregates the book.
Shipments

❓FAQ & troubleshooting

Quote and invoice disagree.

The calculator prices with the rate card in force at quote time; re-price if the card changed before the shipment was created.

Who uses Freight?

Operations staff (demo.staff); the dashboard serves management.