Eight things a customer came here to do.

What it does

It opens on what is waiting for them.

Fig. 1 — One telephone call, or one lookup.Illustrative workflow
“Where is my cargo?” on the phone, to your desk and what the desk was doing it does not pick up where it left off The customer looks it up on your public site, in your name Kim Trading Co — signed in Where the cargo is The documents on it The invoices with a balance Quotations waiting to be accepted The public site tracks without a login. Behind the login: quotations, documents, and the balance.
The public site tracks without a login; behind it, quotations, documents, the balance.
Kim Trading Co — signed in 02 Sep 08:31 PDT
2 quotations are waiting to be acceptedOne expires Friday
4 shipments in progress2 ocean · 2 air
3 invoices with a balance$4,182.50
Paid invoices are not a task, so they are not on this screen.

The same object the desk sent.

Accepting it turns it into the shipment they watch tomorrow.

How a request becomes that quotation →

One rule

A list that got cut short has to say so.

1,955
Invoice lines that existed
88 of 176 invoices once drew “Lines 0” instead.

Zero is a number. It should not stand in for an unknown.

A customer cannot walk to the next desk and ask whether the number is real.

Get a demo

The demonstration is seen from the customer’s side.

A sign-in as one of the forwarder’s customers accepts a quotation. 45 minutes.