Included in every Logistics ERP user licence

Every vendor prices differently.
Your rate engine doesn't mind.

Carriers price per container, consolidators per W/M, airlines per weight break, truckers per zone, kilometre or city, customs brokers per declaration, warehouses per pallet a day and insurers per cent of value. The Logistics ERP rate engine stores each one the way the vendor sends it, in one structure built to cover the price formats forwarders meet every day.

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8 service types Zone, distance and city truck pricing Margin per rate €95 per user / month

Rate contracts · Your Company · active

8 vendors · 8 price formatsOne engine

FCLOcean carrier · RTM → PUSPer container type · BAF, THC, ISPS€ 1,085per 40'HC

LCLConsolidator · RTM → PUSPer W/M · 1 cbm = 1,000 kg · minimum€ 38per w/m

AIRAirline · AMS → ICNWeight breaks · chargeable weight 1:6000€ 2.45per kg +100

FCLContainer trucker · VenloCity to city · per container€ 495Venlo → RTM

LTLRoad haulier · BeneluxZone matrix · per pallet€ 74zone 3, per pallet

FTLRoad haulier · GermanyDistance bands · per km, minimum€ 1.42per km

CUSCustoms brokerPer declaration + per extra line€ 55per declaration

WHSWarehouse · VenloPer pallet per day · in / out handling€ 0.85per pallet day

INSCargo insurerPer cent of cargo value · minimum premium0.25 %min € 35

All active · all read liveNew contract

Rate engineone structure

Stored the way each vendor prices

Quick Quote, the Client Portal, offers and invoices all read the same rate contracts.

Rate contract · Road haulier Benelux · LTL / FTL3 price models

ZoneDistanceCity to cityPer palletPer ldmPer kg

Zone	1 plt	2–5 plt	6–10 plt	FTL
1 0–50 km	58	49	41	380
2 50–150 km	69	58	48	520
3 150–250 km	86	74	61	690
4 250 km +	104	89	73	880

EUR per pallet · FTL per truck · valid to 31 DecPrice an address

Pickup · Venlo 5928zone 3

2 pallets × € 74.00 = € 148.00 buy

Postcode to zone, pallets to band, band to price. Nobody looks it up in a PDF.

The problem

Endless vendors. Endless price formats. One spreadsheet per operator.

A forwarder buys from carriers, consolidators, airlines, truckers, warehouses, customs brokers and insurers, and every one of them prices in its own structure. Most forwarding software stores only part of it, so the rest lives in Excel, and every operator keeps their own copy, with their own margin.

Old style · rate sheets and Excel

Scattered

XLSCarrier_spot_RTM-ASIA_wk41.xlsxfrom Monday's e-mail

XLSTrucker_NL_zones_v7_FINAL_2.xlsxwhich one is current?

PDFAirline_weightbreaks_Q4.pdfretyped by hand

DOCCustoms_broker_tariff_2026.docxper line? per declaration?

MSGRE: warehouse rates Venlo.msgin someone's inbox

XLSMargins_Rotterdam.xlsx · Margins_Venlo.xlsx · Margins_nightshift.xlsxthree margins

Every quote starts with finding the right file, every operator adds a margin of their own, and nobody sees the surcharge that was missed. Mispricing is a matter of time.

New style · one rate engine

One source

Rate contracts · every vendor in its own price model8 types

Spot rates · fetched from the carriers06:00

Rate templates · door to door, margin per rateshared

Client discounts · per client, for every operatorshared

Your own Excel sheets · cells linked to the enginelive

Priced live · Quick Quote, portal, offers, services, invoicesnow

One place for every buy rate, one margin policy, and the same price wherever and by whomever the client is quoted.

Price like a carrier, a trucker, a warehouse and a customs broker. From one rate engine, in one ERP.

See the engine

One rate engine

Eight service types. The price models vendors actually use.

We took the price lists forwarders receive and broke them into common building blocks. Together they cover roughly 95% of the structures in daily use, so a forwarder can store a rate exactly as the carrier, trucker, warehouse or customs broker prices it.

FCL

Ocean FCLCarriers, NVOCCs

Per container typePort pairBAF, THC, ISPSSpot and contract

40'HC RTM → PUS € 1,085 + BAF € 145

LCL

Ocean LCLConsolidators

Per W/MMinimumWeight / volume bandsCFS charges

€ 38 per w/m · minimum 1 w/m

AIR

Air freightAirlines, GSAs

Weight breaksChargeable weightMinimumFuel and security per kg

+100 kg € 2.45 / kg · min € 95

FCL

Truck FCLContainer trucking

City to cityDistanceZonePer container

40'HC Venlo → RTM € 495

LTL

Truck LTL / FTLRoad hauliers

Zone matrixKilometre bandsCity pairsPallet, ldm, kg or truck

Zone 3 · 2–5 pallets € 74 / pallet

CUS

CustomsCustoms brokers

Per declarationPer extra lineInspectionsFixed fees

Export declaration € 55 + € 4 / line

WHS

WarehouseWarehouses, CFS

Per pallet per dayIn / out handlingPer m²Value-added services

€ 0.85 / pallet / day · in € 6.50

INS

InsuranceCargo insurers

% of cargo valueMinimum premiumPer shipment

0.25 % of value · min € 35

Building blocks per unitper weight breakper W/Mper km bandper zonecity pairminimum / maximum% of valuefixed feesurchargescurrencyvalid from – to

Trucking: three price models, side by side

Trucking is where rate tables usually stop. One haulier prices per zone, the next per kilometre, the third per city pair. Each goes into its own rate contract, and each is priced the same way by Quick Quote.

Zone · per palletLTL

Zone	1 plt	2–5	FTL
1 0–50 km	58	49	380
2 50–150	69	58	520
3 150–250	86	74	690

Postcode → zone → price

Distance · per kmFTL

Band	€ / km	Minimum
0–100 km	2.10	210
100–300 km	1.55	210
300 km +	1.42	210

Venlo → Hamburg 412 km = € 585.04

City to city · per tripFCL

From → to	20'	40'HC
Venlo → Rotterdam	455	495
Venlo → Antwerp	495	540
Venlo → Hamburg	820	890

Plus fuel surcharge % per month

Rate contracts and rate templates

Buy like the vendor prices. Sell like a forwarder.

Two layers, each with one job. The rate contract is what you buy, in the vendor's own format. The rate template is what you sell: a route that chains contracts together and adds your margin, line by line.

1
Enter the rate contract
The vendor's price list as they send it: service type, price model, currency, validity, minimums and surcharges. Spot rates arrive here from the Carrier Data Fetcher.
2
Chain contracts into a rate template
Pickup, export customs, origin, freight, destination, delivery, warehouse and insurance: a template is a route, built from the contracts you choose per leg.
3
Set the margin per rate
A percentage on freight, a fixed amount on customs, surcharges at cost. Each line carries its own margin, so every service earns what it should.
4
Add the client discount once
Set on the client and applied wherever that client is priced: Quick Quote, the Client Portal, offers and invoices.

Rate template 0000100 · Venlo → Busan · 1 × 40'HCbuy → sell, EUR

Container trucking · city to cityBuy € 495.00 · margin 12 %€ 554.40

Export customs · per declarationBuy € 55.00 · margin € 20€ 75.00

Origin THC · carrier surchargeBuy € 285.00 · at cost€ 285.00

Ocean freight · spot rate, today 06:00Buy € 1,085.00 · margin 8 %€ 1,171.80

Destination · partner rate templateBuy € 310.00 · margin 10 %€ 341.00

Cargo insurance · 0.25 % of valueBuy € 120.00 · at cost€ 120.00

Template price, before client discountBuy € 2,350.00 · margin € 197.20€ 2,547.20

8 service typesin one rate engine

3 truck modelszone, distance and city to city

Margin per ratenot one margin on the total

0 stale copiesExcel sheets are linked, never copied

Real time

One engine. Seven places it prices. Instantly.

The rate engine is not a separate tool with an export button. It is read live by every part of the ERP that shows a price, and by your own Excel sheets, so a changed rate, margin or discount is in the next quote, the portal, the sheet and the next order at once.

Logistics ERP

Rate engine

Rate contracts8 service types

Spot ratesCarrier Data Fetcher

Rate templatesmargin per rate

Client discountsper client

1Quick QuoteOperators price any lane and mode in secondsInstant
2Excel Add-inYour own rate sheets, every cell linked liveLive
3Rate PublisherRate sheets to clients, replies become sales leadsLeads
4Client Portal Quick QuoteClients price themselves, with their discount24/7
5Order shipping modes → offersEvery mode priced into offers, with P&LOffers
6Order servicesTruck, customs, warehouse and terminal pricedServices
7Order payment and invoicesThe same prices become receivables and payablesInvoices

From rate to invoice

The same price, from the first quote to the last invoice

A price is entered once, in a rate contract. After that it travels: into the quote, the published rate sheet, the client's own portal, the order's offers and services, and finally the invoice. Nobody retypes it, so nobody mistypes it.

Maersk · RTM → PUS€ 2,496.26

CMA CGM · ANR → PUS€ 2,538.40

Hapag-Lloyd · RTM → PUS€ 2,571.10

Venlo → Busan · door to doorInstant

Quick Quote: instant pricing

Origin, destination, cargo: the rate engine prices every carrier, mode and leg it has a contract for, with margin and client discount already in. The client gets an answer while still on the phone.

A priced quote in seconds instead of an hour of rate hunting

RTM → PUSANR → SINRTM → SHA+ 17 lanes

New lead · reply to your Q4 rate sheet4 × 40'HC Rotterdam → Busan, monthly. Can you confirm?

Rate Publisher: rate sheets that sell

Select lanes, publish a rate sheet to your clients and prospects with each one's margin and discount. Prices come straight from the engine, and replies land in the sales lead module.

Your current prices in front of clients, replies as leads

portal.your-company.comYour brand

Venlo → Busan · 1 × 40'HC€ 2,496.26

Discount 2 % · appliedBook

Client Portal Quick Quote: clients price themselves

Your clients run their own Quick Quote on your domain, day and night. The same rate engine answers, with your margin and their own discount, and a price becomes a booking in one step.

Instant prices for clients, without an operator in between

Ocean FCL · RTMOcean FCL · ANROcean LCLAir

Maersk · FCL · 31 daysP&L € 146.26

Consol · LCL · 38 daysP&L € 61.40

Air · AMS → ICN · 4 daysP&L € 212.00

Order shipping modes, priced into offers

Every shipping mode on the order, FCL from either terminal, LCL or air, is priced from the engine into offers with gross price, P&L and transit time, before the client decides.

Every option priced, the P&L known before booking

Service · buy → sell

Pickup · trucker495 → 554.40

Export customs55 → 75.00

Destination · Busan310 → 341.00

Insurance · 0.25 %120 → 120.00

Order services, priced from the same contracts

When the order books its truck, customs, warehouse and terminal services, each service takes its buy and sell price from the contract and template behind the offer.

Buy and sell on every service, nothing looked up twice

Invoice to client€ 2,496.26

Payable · ocean carrier€ 1,370.00

Payables · 4 other vendors€ 980.00

Order P&L€ 146.26

Order payment and invoices

The price the client accepted becomes the invoice; the buy prices from the contracts become the payables to check vendor invoices against. The P&L on the invoice is the P&L on the quote.

Invoice matches the quote, payables match the contracts

Margin and discount control

One pricing policy, shared by every operator

When margins live in each operator's own spreadsheet, the price a client gets depends on who picks up the phone. In the rate engine the margin sits on the rate and the discount on the client, so every operator, the portal and the Rate Publisher calculate the same way.

Margin per rate: percentage or fixed, per line of the template
Client discount set once, applied wherever the client is priced
Change a margin once, every next quote uses it
P&L visible on every offer before it is sent
Excel sheets linked through the Add-in show the same price
No margin sheets to copy, share or lose

Old style · one lane, one client3 spreadsheets

Rotterdam deskNo margin on the freight€ 2,411.20

Venlo deskThis week's sheet€ 2,496.26

Night shiftLast quarter's rate, no discount€ 2,655.80

Rate engine · same lane, same client1 policy

Rotterdam deskTemplate 0000100 · discount 2 %€ 2,496.26

Venlo deskTemplate 0000100 · discount 2 %€ 2,496.26

Night shiftTemplate 0000100 · discount 2 %€ 2,496.26

Secure by design. Buy rates, margins and discounts live in your ERP, behind each user's own sign-in, not in spreadsheets attached to e-mails. Clients in the portal see their price, never your buy rate or your margin.

Excel Add-in

Keep your own rate templates in Excel. Now with real prices in them.

Many forwarders built their pricing in Excel over years, and their clients know those sheets. Keep them. The Logistics ERP Excel Add-in links the cells to the rate engine, so every price in your own layout is a real, current price: the buy rate from the contract, your margin per rate and the client's discount.

Rates_Korea.xlsx · ExcelYour own sheet

HomeInsertFormulasDataLogistics ERP

Rate managementExchange ratesE-mail report

F13Linked · Ocean FCL RTM → PUS · 40'HC · margin 8 % · discount 2 %

DEFG 12Lane20'DC40'HCValid to 13RTM → PUS1,016.061,148.3631 Oct 14ANR → PUS1,042.521,185.4131 Oct 15HAM → INC1,068.981,217.1631 Oct 16RTM → SHA941.981,068.9831 Oct 17

Logistics ERP Client: Your client · discount 2 % Sheet1!D12:G16 Live rates linked Create email

Same lane · same client3 channels

€ 1,148.36 in your sheet, in Quick Quote and in the portal

One price, because all three read the same contract, margin and discount.

1
Keep your sheet as it is
Your lanes, your columns, the layout your team and your clients know. Nothing to rebuild in a new tool.
2
Link the cells to the rate engine
In the Logistics ERP tab, select the range and link each cell to its lane, equipment and service. Linked cells are marked, so nobody types over a live price.
3
Choose the client
The sheet shows that client's price: the buy rate, your margin per rate and their discount. Exactly what Quick Quote and the Client Portal give the same client.
4
Prices stay current, quotes go out
When a contract or spot rate changes, the linked cells follow. Create the client e-mail straight from the sheet.

Your formatkept, not replaced

Live linksto rate contracts and spot rates

Margin + discountin every cell, per client

0 private price listsevery sheet reads one policy

Keep Excel. Lose the copy-paste. Every cell priced by the same engine as Quick Quote.

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Carrier Data Fetcher

Spot rates in your rate contracts before the first coffee

Spot rates change every week. Keeping them current by hand means logging in to each carrier's website or opening each rate sheet, and copying lane by lane. The Carrier Data Fetcher does it on a schedule.

1
Choose carriers and lanes
The carriers you buy from and the lanes you sell, with the times the fetch should run.
2
Rates are fetched and checked
Each run collects spot rates and surcharges and checks them for shape and completeness, so a changed carrier format fails loudly instead of importing nonsense.
3
They land in your rate contracts
Validated rates update the carrier's rate contract, with what changed since the last run.
4
Every template prices on today's rate
Quick Quote, the Client Portal and new offers pick up the new rate at once, with your margin on top.

Carrier Data Fetcher · schedule Mon–Fri 06:00

Today 06:00 · 144 lanes25 prices updated

MSKMaersk · 42 lanes40'HC RTM → PUS € 1,120 → € 1,08512 changed

HLCHapag-Lloyd · 38 lanesBAF updated9 changed

CMACMA CGM · 35 lanes4 lanes up, none down4 changed

ONEONE · 29 lanesSame as yesterdayChecked

Next run tomorrow 06:00Open rate contracts

4 carriers × 36 lanesa typical spot-rate update, as an example

≈ 3 minutesto look up and copy one lane by hand

≈ 7 hoursa week of copying, at one update a week

0 minuteswith the fetcher on a schedule

Carrier coverage depends on what each carrier publishes and on your own contract with them. Tell us which carriers you buy from and we confirm what can be fetched. Carriers shown are examples.

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A rate table is not a rate engine

Many forwarding SaaS products have no rate management at all; others store ocean and air lanes and stop there. Whatever does not fit goes back into Excel, and the time the software was meant to save is spent copying rates into it.

	SpreadsheetsExcel, PDFs and e-mail	SaaS, no rate enginePrices typed into the quote	SaaS, basic rate tablesLanes and a price per unit	Logistics ERP Rate EngineRate contracts and templates
Service types	One sheet per vendor	Not stored	Mostly ocean and air	Ocean FCL and LCL, air, truck, customs, warehouse, insurance
Truck pricing	A file per haulier	Typed per quote	A flat rate per lane	Zone, distance and city to city; per pallet, ldm, kg or truck
Price models	Anything, nothing checked	None	Per unit, sometimes minimums	Weight breaks, W/M, bands, minimums, % of value, surcharges
Margin	Per operator, per sheet	Worked out by hand	One margin on the total	Margin per rate, one policy for all operators
Client discount	Remembered by the operator	Manual	Manual adjustment	Per client, applied everywhere
Spot rate updates	Copied from carrier websites	Copied	Uploaded sheet, if the format fits	Carrier Data Fetcher on a schedule
Where the price goes	One quote at a time	Retyped into each document	Quotes	Quick Quote, Excel Add-in, Rate Publisher, Client Portal, offers, services, invoices
Your own Excel templates	Static copies, outdated next week	Prices copied in by hand	An export file, at best	Excel Add-in: cells linked live, margin and discount included
Spreadsheets on the side	They are the system	For every price	For whatever does not fit	None. Excel only where you want it, and linked
Cost	Hours of copying every week	Subscription, plus the Excel hours	Subscription, plus the Excel hours	Included in €95 per user / month

The SaaS columns describe categories of forwarding software in general, not a specific product. The test for any of them is simple: take this month's price sheets from your carrier, trucker, warehouse and customs broker, and see how many fit without a spreadsheet next to them.

Pricing

The rate engine is not an add-on

Rate contracts, rate templates, margins, client discounts and Quick Quote are part of the Logistics ERP Windows app. Every user licence includes them, along with the full ERP they feed.

~~A separate rate-management tool~~
~~Margin spreadsheets per operator~~
~~Copying spot rates from carrier websites~~
~~Giving up the Excel sheets your clients know~~
~~Retyping prices into quotes, orders and invoices~~

User Licence · rate engine included

€95per month, per named user, excl. VAT

Rate contracts for 8 service types
Zone, distance and city truck pricing
Rate templates, margin per rate
Client discounts for every operator
Quick Quote and Rate Publisher
Excel Add-in with live price links
Carrier Data Fetcher spot rates
Offers, services and invoices priced
Full ERP, updates and support

Start free trial See ERP pricing

Client self-pricing runs on the Client Portal, a licence per company.

Bring this month's rate sheets. Price them all in one engine.

Start a free trial, enter the contracts of your busiest lane, from carrier to trucker to customs broker, and send your next quote from Quick Quote.

Start free trial See the Client Portal Back to Logistics ERP

Every vendor prices differently.Your rate engine doesn't mind.

Zone, distance or city.Priced the way your trucker prices.

Rate contracts in.Door-to-door price out.

One margin policy.The same price from every operator.

Keep your own Excel.With live prices inside.

A priced quote in seconds.Wherever you sell.

Spot rates updated.Nobody copied a thing.

Endless vendors. Endless price formats. One spreadsheet per operator.

Old style · rate sheets and Excel

New style · one rate engine

Eight service types. The price models vendors actually use.

Ocean FCLCarriers, NVOCCs

Ocean LCLConsolidators

Air freightAirlines, GSAs

Truck FCLContainer trucking

Truck LTL / FTLRoad hauliers

CustomsCustoms brokers

WarehouseWarehouses, CFS

InsuranceCargo insurers

Trucking: three price models, side by side

Buy like the vendor prices. Sell like a forwarder.

Enter the rate contract

Chain contracts into a rate template

Set the margin per rate

Add the client discount once

One engine. Seven places it prices. Instantly.

Rate engine

The same price, from the first quote to the last invoice

Quick Quote: instant pricing

Rate Publisher: rate sheets that sell

Client Portal Quick Quote: clients price themselves

Order shipping modes, priced into offers

Order services, priced from the same contracts

Order payment and invoices

One pricing policy, shared by every operator

Keep your own rate templates in Excel. Now with real prices in them.

Keep your sheet as it is

Link the cells to the rate engine

Choose the client

Prices stay current, quotes go out

Spot rates in your rate contracts before the first coffee

Choose carriers and lanes

Rates are fetched and checked

They land in your rate contracts

Every template prices on today's rate

A rate table is not a rate engine

The rate engine is not an add-on

Bring this month's rate sheets. Price them all in one engine.

Every vendor prices differently.
Your rate engine doesn't mind.

Zone, distance or city.
Priced the way your trucker prices.

Rate contracts in.
Door-to-door price out.

One margin policy.
The same price from every operator.

Keep your own Excel.
With live prices inside.

A priced quote in seconds.
Wherever you sell.

Spot rates updated.
Nobody copied a thing.