Capital raised and spent, by industry estimates, to build a digital forwarder with its own booking and tracking platform.
Source [1]For freight forwarders of every size
Digital forwarding.
Live by tomorrow.
Flexport and Forto raised billions to give shippers instant quotes, online booking and live tracking. Your own Client Portal does the same on your domain, from your own rates, for €500 a month.
Prices in seconds.
From your own rates.
Clients enter route, cargo and services and get live ocean, air and truck prices from your rate templates, with your margins and their discount applied. Every quote is a sales lead for you.
Paste an e-mail.
Get a quote.
Clients describe the shipment in their own words or paste a request. The AI agent fills in cargo, route and services and hands the shipment to the price comparison.
Booked in the portal.
Ready in your ERP.
Clients compare your shipment options, pick one and request the booking with shipping instructions and commercial invoices attached. Your team receives a complete order, nothing retyped.
Status without calls.
Every service, live.
Origin, freight and destination services with every handling, remark and document, the moment your team updates them in the ERP. Clients add the arrival to their own calendar.
Sell licences as a service.
Win the shipments too.
Clients request import and export licences for controlled goods in a guided online form. Your customs team classifies, screens and applies in the ERP while the client follows every step. A paid service of its own, and every licence brings its shipments to you.
HOW IT WORKS
YCYour Company
Quick Quotes
Orders
Import / Export
Invoices
Members
Welcome, A. Archibugi & FiglioYour Company portal
QQNew quick quoteLive prices from Your CompanyStart
ORDOrder 1182 · RTM → PUSSailing · ETA Busan 08 NovOn track
LICExport licence · dual-use1 document requestedAction
INVINV-2026-0412Due 30 Oct€ 812.00
Your logo, colours and domainNew quote
Go-live checklistDay 1 · 15:20
Subdomain connected09:40
Logo and colours10:15
Rate templates linked11:30
First 12 clients invited15:20
Quick Quote · 2 × 40'HCLive prices
EXW VenloRotterdam→BusanReady 28 Oct
FCLMaersk · 31 daysPickup, export customs, ocean€ 406.00Best price
FCLOOCL · 29 daysPickup, export customs, ocean€ 438.00
FCLHMM · 34 daysPickup, export customs, ocean€ 451.00
AIRKorean Air · 4 daysPickup, export customs, air€ 2,940.00
Your margins and client discount appliedRequest offer
A. Archibugi & Figlio priced RTM → PUS
2 × 40'HC, ready 28 Oct. Quoted at night, waiting for your follow-up in the morning.
"2 pallets 1.2 t, Venlo to Incheon, ready next Monday, door delivery please"
Shipment dataFilled in by AI agent
ModeAir freight · LCL
FromVenlo, NL · pickup
ToIncheon, KR · door delivery
Cargo2 pallets · 1,200 kg
ReadyMon 19 Oct 2026
ServicesPickupExport customsAir freightDelivery
Check, change or add anythingShow prices
Order 1182 · Shipment options3 offers
Maersk · ETD 30 Oct · 31 daysDoor to port · your preferred option€ 406.00
OOCL · ETD 02 Nov · 29 daysDoor to port€ 438.00
HMM · ETD 03 Nov · 34 daysDoor to port€ 451.00
DOCUMENTS
Shipping instructions.pdfUploaded
Commercial invoice CI-7731.pdfUploaded
Booking goes straight to your teamRequest booking
Booking request · Order 1182
Maersk option picked, both documents attached. Ready for your operator.
Order 1182 · ServicesOn track
Pickup Venlo
Export customs
Ocean · Maersk
Import customs
Delivery Busan
28 Oct08 Nov12 Nov
OKContainer loaded · Terminal RTMHandling remark from your operatorDone
ETA Busan 08 NovAdd to calendar
Ocean freight started
Your client saw it at the same moment as your team. No phone call needed.
Export licence · dual-use · NL → KRUnder review
Request received02 Oct
Classification · 5A00203 Oct
Screening of all parties · Clear03 Oct
Documents complete06 Oct
Submitted to the authority07 Oct
Under review · question answeredtoday
Approved · licence activeexpected
DOCUMENTS
End-user statement.pdfVerified
Technical datasheet.pdfVerified
Licence fee invoiced · INV-2026-0398Open ticket
Question from the authority answered
The client explained the end use in the portal. Your customs team reads it in the ERP ticket and replies to the authority.
Why now
Shippers have learned to book freight online
Digital forwarders and the global top 10 have trained your clients to expect a price in seconds and a status without a phone call. The forwarders who still quote by e-mail lose the request before they reply.
Raised by the Berlin digital forwarder, including a $250 m round in 2022 at a $2.1 bn valuation.
Source [2]Of road bookings already made digitally through myKN, aiming for 90% by 2026. One booking takes about 40 seconds.
Source [3]Average reply time of forwarders that quote by hand. In the same test, 72% of forwarders never sent a quote at all.
Source [4] · 2018 studyA shipper who gets a price from a portal in 40 seconds will not wait 57 hours for yours. Give them your own portal, with your service behind it.
How it goes live
Compare
Three ways to offer digital forwarding
You can build it, buy an enterprise system, or switch on the portal that already runs on your Logistics ERP rates and orders.
| Build your ownIn-house or agency | Enterprise TMS portalCargoWise, SAP TM, Oracle TM | Logistics ERP Client PortalReady-made, white-label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to live | 6 to 18 months of development | 6 to 24 months of implementation 6 | 1 day |
| Cost to start | Developers, hosting, security audits | Enterprise rollouts regularly exceed $500,000 5 | No setup project |
| Running cost | Your own IT team | $500 to $2,000+ per user per month 6 | €500 per month per company account |
| Prices from your rates | Only if you also build a rate engine | After rate data is migrated | Live from your rate templates, margins and client discounts |
| Your brand and domain | Yes | Often a vendor-branded portal | Your logo, colours and subdomain |
| Bookings into operations | Custom integration | Yes | Straight into your ERP orders |
| Who owns the client | You | You | You. The portal sells your service only |
Joining a digital forwarder's platform is the fourth option, and it hands them your client relationship. Build and enterprise figures are published industry ranges, not quotes for your company.
What your clients get
Everything a digital forwarder offers, under your name
Clients sign in free of charge. Each screen runs on the same data your team already works with in Logistics ERP, so nothing is typed twice.
RTM → PUS · 2 × 40'HCInstant
Origin charges€ 31.00
Ocean freight · Maersk€ 375.00
Total€ 406.00
Instant Quick Quotes from your own rates
Ocean, air and truck prices calculated live from your carrier rate templates and surcharges, with trucking by zone, city or road distance, transit times and the client's own discount.
Quotes at 2 a.m. without anyone on dutyPasted by your client"2 pallets 1.2 t, Venlo to Incheon, ready next Monday, door delivery"
Air · LCL2 pallets · 1,200 kgDoor delivery
An AI agent that reads the request
Clients paste an e-mail or describe the shipment in their own words. The agent fills in the cargo, route and services and hands a complete quote request to the price comparison.
No forms to explain, no missing detailsOrder 1182 · Offer acceptedBooked
Shipping instructionsUploaded
Commercial invoiceAwaiting
Online offers and booking
The client requests an offer, compares your shipment options and books the one they like. Shipping instructions and commercial invoices are uploaded straight to the order.
Bookings land in your ERP orders, ready to handle
Pickup Venlo
Export customs
Ocean freight
Delivery Busan
ETA Busan 08 NovAdd to calendar
Live service status, without calls
Every origin, freight and destination service with its handlings, remarks and documents, as a list or a timeline. The ocean route is drawn on a real sea-lane map.
Fewer "where is my container?" e-mailsExport licence · dual-useDocuments needed
End-user statementRequested
Technical sheetReceived
Import and export licences
Clients start licence requests, answer questions and upload documents in a guided ticket. Your team works the same ticket in the ERP.
One thread per licence instead of a mailboxINV-2026-0412 · Order 1182€ 812.00
INV-2026-0398 · Licence€ 145.00
INV-2026-0371 · Order 1150Paid
Invoices and payment status
Open, overdue and paid invoices per order and licence, with totals the finance team at your client can check on their own.
Faster payment, fewer copy requests
Your brand, your domain
Hook it into your website with one DNS record
The portal runs on a subdomain of your own website, with your logo and colours. Your clients never see our name. Add a "Client portal" button to your site and you are a digital forwarder.
- Your subdomain, for example portal.your-company.com
- HTTPS certificate issued and renewed for you
- Clients subscribe on your portal and you approve them
- Prices only for signed-in clients, so competitors cannot scrape your rates
DNS · your-company.comStep 1 of 2
# Type Name Value CNAME portal ghs.googlehosted.com.
Your Company
ServicesAboutContactClient portal
Sea, air and road freight from the NetherlandsGet a price, book and follow your shipment online.
your website · menuStep 2 of 2
<a href="https://portal.your-company.com">Client portal</a>
Client sign-up
Clients subscribe for free. You decide who gets in.
Any visitor of your website can become a portal client in a few minutes. It costs them nothing, and each sign-up reaches you as a qualified lead: you know their cargo and lanes before the first call.
- 1
They land on your portal
Your portal opens with your name, a short pitch and two buttons: Subscribe and Log in. Your website's "Client portal" button leads straight there.
- 2
They subscribe for free
Company name, address, contact person, website and Chamber of Commerce number, plus a short note on why they want to become your client: what they ship, where and how often.
- 3
You approve the request
Your team reviews every request, usually within 24 hours, and activates the account. Competitors and bots stay out, and your prices stay private.
- 4
They log in and bring colleagues
The login arrives by e-mail. The client sets a password or a passkey and invites colleagues under Members, all on one company account with its own discount.
Free for our clients
Join Your Company
Company name *A. Archibugi & Figlio
Country *Italy
Email *l.rossi@archibugi.it
Websitewww.archibugi.it
Why do you want to become a client? *We import furniture from Vietnam, about two 40 ft containers a month, and want to start exporting to the UK.
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A. Archibugi & Figlio · Italy
"Two 40 ft containers a month from Vietnam, starting UK exports."
ApproveReview later
€0for your clients, always
1 accountper client company, colleagues included
Every sign-uparrives with cargo, lanes and volumes
Your approvalbefore anyone sees a price
Live in a day
A typical first day
Your rates, clients and orders already live in Logistics ERP, so there is nothing to migrate. Going live is configuration, not a project.
You
Subscribe
Pick your subdomain and send your logo and brand colours.
Your IT or web host
Add one DNS record
A single CNAME on your domain. Five minutes in any DNS panel.
Us
Portal configured
Your branding and domain are set, and the certificate is issued automatically.
You
Check your prices
Run a few Quick Quotes. They use the rate templates, margins and discounts you already keep.
You
Invite clients
Add the button to your website and invite your first clients. You are live.
For your team
Your clients serve themselves. Your team handles freight.
Every self-service quote, booking and status check is work your operators no longer do by e-mail or phone.
Quote requests
Operators copy rates from spreadsheets into e-mails.Clients price it themselves; you see every request as a sales lead.
Bookings
Booking details retyped from e-mails and PDFs.Bookings and documents arrive in the order, complete.
Status questions
Phone calls and chasers for every ETA.Clients follow each service live and add arrival to their calendar.
Invoices
"Can you resend that invoice?"Every invoice and its payment state, online at any hour.
Security
Safe enough for your biggest client's IT department
Your rates are your margin, and your clients' shipments are their business. Larger shippers often run a security check before their staff may sign in. These are the answers.
Sign-in that phishing cannot steal
Clients sign in with a passkey: Face ID, Windows Hello, a fingerprint or a security key. There is no password to type into a fake website.
- Passkeys only work on your portal's own domain
- Passwords stay as a fallback: 12+ characters, common passwords refused
- Repeated wrong passwords lock the account for a while
- A client admin can reset a lost device for a colleague
Sessions that cannot be reused
A signed-in session lives in a protected browser cookie that scripts on the page cannot read, and it expires on its own.
- Ends after a short idle time and after one working day at most
- Bound to your company: useless on any other portal
- One active session per user; sign-out ends it at once
- A password reset signs the user out everywhere
Your rates stay yours
Competitors and price-scraping bots never see your tariff. Every price is calculated for one approved, signed-in client.
- No public prices; new clients only after your approval
- Price requests are limited per session, so bulk harvesting fails
- Each client sees its own quotes, orders and invoices only
- Portal pages are kept out of search engines
Hardened, hosted in the EU, watched
The portal runs on Google Cloud in Belgium, next to your Logistics ERP data, behind strict browser protection.
- HTTPS only, enforced by the browser (HSTS)
- Strict content security policy; the portal cannot be framed by other sites
- Every security event is logged; lockouts, attack patterns and errors raise alerts
- Software dependencies are scanned for known vulnerabilities automatically
Client browser
HTTPS
Your portal domain
checked
Session · company · expiry
then
Your rates and orders
Filling in a client's security questionnaire? We send the technical details on request.
Pricing
One flat price per company
No setup fee, no implementation project and no charge per client user. The portal is an add-on to your Logistics ERP subscription.
Client Portal€ 6,000
Enterprise rollout, setup alone 5$500,000+
Client Portal
€500per month, per company account
- Your subdomain and branding
- Free access for your clients
- Instant Quick Quotes
- AI shipment agent
- Online offers and booking
- Live service status
- Licence tickets
- Invoices and payments
Requires Logistics ERP, where your rates, clients and orders are kept. AI agent use draws on your company's AI credits.
Your clients want to book online. Let them book with you.
Start a free trial and see the portal on your own rates. Add your subdomain and you can be live the next day.
Sources
- Flexport total funding of about $2.7 bn (industry estimate after the 2024 Shopify round): STAT Times; CB Insights lists $2.76 bn: CB Insights
- Forto $250 m Series D at $2.1 bn valuation, over $600 m raised: PR Newswire, Fibre2Fashion
- Kuehne+Nagel Road Logistics: 85% digital bookings, target 90% by 2026, about 40 seconds per booking: Kuehne+Nagel newsroom
- Freightos third annual Mystery Shopper report (2018): 72% of forwarders failed to quote, manual quotes took 57 hours on average: Air Cargo Week. Ti found 49% of shippers and LSPs already used online forwarding platforms in 2019: Transport Intelligence
- TMS implementation: enterprise projects 9 to 18+ months, enterprise rollouts regularly above $500,000: Sheer Logistics
- Enterprise forwarding platforms (CargoWise, Oracle TM, SAP TM): 6 to 24 months to implement, $500 to $2,000+ per user per month: GoFreight