LoadAccept EDI Portal
When your company partners with Bitfreighter, one of the biggest advantages is the value-added products that Bitfreighter provides. Bitfreighter’s goal is to be a one-stop shop for all of your EDI integration and load tender management needs. Over the coming months, we will be releasing a blog series dedicated to introducing, and explaining what these services are, and how they can save costs, grow your business, and most importantly, how they can help make you a standout carrier with your shippers!
Obviously, with the thousands of trucking companies and freight brokerages in operation, the barriers to entry are not especially cost-prohibitive. However, as your trucking company or brokerage grows, and larger customers are acquired, those “big fish” customers have integration, and tracking requirements that are often cost eating, and complicated. Due to mandatory integration requirements, load process EDI almost becomes mandatory to keep up with higher volumes, and to make your operation more efficient in providing the timely updates your customers demand.
When you consider that many smaller trucking companies and brokerages are being managed via spreadsheets (or even paper!), the prospect of implementing even a basic TMS or dispatch software can be daunting, to say the least. If those trucking companies or brokerages then have to upgrade to a Full Suite version to be EDI compliant, forget about it!
The thousands of extra dollars in fees for integration, hours spent dealing with technology people that don’t have the first clue about Logistics, and the hours and resources required for a trucking company or brokerage to ensure that the system is even keeping them compliant can be an absolute nightmare! The high costs and extra labor can even threaten to shut the doors for some companies.
Sound like a nightmare scenario? Well, it doesn’t have to be any longer. Enter LoadAccept by Bitfreighter! Load Accept is a lightweight web application built on top of Bitfreighter's EDI module. With a simple setup process, a user can begin receiving load tenders from their customer, accept/reject loads, provide status updates for shipments as their customer requires, and connect to their ELD for location updates. Built on an integrations engine, Bitfreighter can connect anything to anything involved in the messaging process, which give Bitfreighter customer’s a huge advantage.
To explain in a little more detail, let’s circle back to the Trucking Company or Freight brokerages that may not be using a TMS system at all. Load Accept is a one-stop-shop that will allow your company to accept your EDI loads and provide Event/Location updates, and even send an EDI invoice to your customer or create a pdf invoice.
With LoadAccept by Bitfreighter, you will be able to accept the 204 Tenders from your customers and send automated 990 accepted responses. Keep in mind that Load Accept and all of Bitfreighter’s value-added products are built by the same experienced group of Bitfreighter developers, meaning that all products are designed to work seamlessly with each other. This keeps the messages coming and going without a hitch, so you can focus on what you do best — getting customer freight on your trucks.
Once picked up, Load accept makes tracking a breeze! Load accept easily integrates with ELDs and leading tracking apps and visibility platforms to provide real-time event, and location information. Once delivered, 214 updates go out automatically, so there’s no hounding your trucking partners, and most importantly, 210 invoices will be sent to your customer. If you need PDF invoices, Load Accept does it too. You will enjoy being able to close the book on one seamless load after another.
If your Brokerage already has a TMS system that you are satisfied with, but are looking for better ways to optimize, and provide better visibility for messaging between you and your trading partners, Load Accept was designed with you in mind as well.
TMS systems are designed to manage the operational side of a Logistics business, Where many fall short, is in their limited ability to adequately interface with outside systems. Load Accept easily integrates and works in tandem with your current TMS system. This provides you the advantage of being able to use a TMS that you and your employees are already familiar with while enjoying a more seamless and transparent interface experience for you and your trading partners.
Load Accept was designed with performance, scalability, and value in mind. The cost to get started is only a flat $1,000 per month license for the first trading partner. Additional trading partners are billed at the managed service plan. If you think that Load Accept would be a good addition to your arsenal, or have any questions, we would love to hear from you. We know that you are poised to take your business to the next level, and it would be our privilege to be part of what gets you there!
