Start-up Guide for Freight Exchange

1. Update your Company Details

  • Present yourself as a serious business partner and complete your company details asap.
  • Go to: Back Office -> Settings and Management -> Frontoffice Settings -> Company Details
    Business details are viewed when others are checking your offers.
  • For transport companies it is important to add your destinations.
    It creates better matching and a greater chance that someone will be notified about your offer.
  • Extensive explanation about Company Details.

2. Post your offers

  • In the search menu you find two buttons, post freight (1) and post equipment (2).
    FE_post.png
  • Important option when posting freight:
    FE_postFreightSendTo.png
  • 1. You can address it to a group of your choice.
    • In groups you can add users of your choice.
      Currently there are over 50000 users, but you can add new users yourself.
    • More info how to create your own groups.
  • 2. Transport companies als have the opportunity to send their offer to Freecargo.
    • Freecargo is an open Freight exchange with more than 15000 companies connected around the world.
  • Extensive explanation about posting offers.

3. Find offers

  • When your login is successful, the system immediately displays available offers.
    FE_overview_search_startup.png
    If you do not see anything, click button Clear (1) to clear your former searches.
    • Or become part of a closed user group.
    • Or start your own closed user group.
  • You can change display of freight offers and equipment offers by clicking these buttons (2 and 3).
  • For detailed search to or from specified destinations use (4) and (5).
  • Specific options per offer. Click on these buttons:
    • button_info_1001.png information about the offer
    • button_edit_12021.png editing the offer (if you are the owner).
    • button_delete_1122.png deleting the offer (if you are the owner).
  • On the left side you have menu options to display offers selected on their ownership.
  • Extensive explanation about finding offers.

4. About groups

  • You are free to create your own groups.
  • In groups you can add numerous users.
  • When sending an offer to a group, all users inside this group receive an email notification about your offer.
  • Extensive explanation how to create groups.

5. About users

  • Use of the freight exchange system is based on a specific user account.
  • Therefore: always use your real and unique email account when logging in.
  • The groups you have created are linked with the logged in user account.
  • Per company (thus per Cargo Office) you are free to create multiple user accounts.
  • Extensive explanation about users.
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