For freight forwarders
Your rate card in your clients' costing tool
Your importing clients compare your rates with another forwarder's before they hand you a shipment. In GeniusTrade, your rate card goes into their costing: they read the landed cost with your rates, route by route.
Who this page is for
Small and mid-sized freight forwarders and customs brokers who work with importers: trading companies, brands, sourcing agencies. GeniusTrade is the software where these importers cost their files, in production since 2008.
What GeniusTrade does with your rate card
- Reads an Excel or CSV file. The tool extracts the rows, flags the amounts it cannot verify (percentages, lump sums), and you review before saving.
- A complete rate card. One currency per card, routes (departure, arrival), volumes (containers, pallets, groupage) with a price and a minimum quantity, validity dates.
- Your surcharges. ENS, THC, fuel, handling, ISPS, PSS, palletization, piracy risk, Suez canal, customs fees and port document fees.
- The cost of a shipment. The tool spreads the volume over the legs of the route at the lowest cost, converts currencies, and feeds the result into the file's landed cost.
- Your rate against the others. For one shipment, the tool recalculates up to eight alternative routes and shows the difference. In a group view, two forwarders appear side by side, with the margin of each scenario.
What the service does not do today
- No forwarder portal: your rate card lives in each client's workspace, and you have no account to manage.
- No publishing of one rate card to several clients at once: the file is loaded into each client's workspace.
- No PDF or image reading: send an Excel or CSV file.
How to start
- We talk for fifteen minutes, to see whether the tool serves your clients.
- After the call, we load your rate card together (Excel or CSV, with its validity dates) and cost a shipment with your rates, on a route you choose.
- You see what your client sees, and you decide what comes next.