Run a freight forwarding desk in Odoo. Each shipment file holds the route, the parties, the carrier and its documents, the cargo with containers and weights, the charges with cost and sale price, and the tracking milestones your customer follows online.
Key Features
- Sea, air and road shipments — Export, import, cross trade or domestic; full load or groupage; origin and destination checked against the mode (seaports for sea, airports for air).
- Ports, carriers and equipment — Seaports, airports and inland terminals with UN/LOCODE or IATA codes, shipping lines, airlines and road hauliers, containers, trailers, pallets and packages with TEU, tare and payload. Default lists are ready after install.
- Cargo with weights and volumes — Container and seal numbers, HS codes, dangerous goods with UN numbers, overweight check per container, totals in units, kilograms, cubic metres and TEU.
- Chargeable weight — Volumetric weight for air and road from the factors in the settings, revenue tonnes (W/M) for sea.
- Milestones and customer e-mails — Booking, cargo received, departed, arrived, customs, delivered: each milestone moves the shipment forward, fills the actual dates and can e-mail the customer.
- Customer portal — Logged-in customers see their shipments, the route, the cargo and the tracking timeline.
- Cost, revenue and margin — Every charge carries a sale price, a cost price and a vendor; planned and actual margin per shipment, low-margin flag, pivot and graph analysis.
- Invoices and vendor bills — A draft customer invoice from the charges, one draft vendor bill per vendor; a charge is never invoiced twice; shipment confirmation PDF sent by e-mail.
Benefits
- One file per shipment instead of spreadsheets and e-mails
- Customers follow their cargo themselves
- Margin known before the first invoice is sent
- Works right after install: services, milestones, equipment and ports are ready
Ideal For
- Freight forwarders, NVOCCs and customs brokers
- Logistics service providers handling sea, air and road transport
- Trading companies that organise their own international shipments
Technical Highlights
- Depends on Invoicing and Portal only; Community and Enterprise
- Uses Odoo incoterms, service products, invoices, bills, chatter and e-mail templates
- Freight Operator and Freight Manager roles; portal and multi-company record rules
- Per-company settings; fully translatable
Supported Odoo Versions
- Odoo 19
- Odoo 20
