For freight forwarders and customs brokers

Find the rate you already have.

RateDeck reads your carrier tariffs as they land, reads the enquiry as it arrives, and comes back with every option fully priced. Surcharges at both ends, currencies converted, weight bands and minimums applied, out of date rates blocked before they reach a customer.

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No migration. Nothing to rip out. It sits beside whatever you run today.

The bit that eats the afternoon

Every carrier sends rates a different way, and none of them agree on anything.

Tariffs land constantly. Some replace what came before, some only correct three lanes and leave the rest standing. Nobody has time to file them properly, so they stay in the inbox until somebody needs a price.

Maersk, 1 Aug MAERSK_MEWA_TARIFF_AUG26_v2.xlsx
Tab names use internal lane codes, not port names.
CMA CGM, 11 Aug RE: AUG GRI, AEJEA/NEUR corrections
Updates three lanes only. July tariff still applies everywhere else.
WhatsApp, 5 Aug IMG-20260805-WA0014.jpg
Photo of a printed rate card, taken at an angle.
10%
of quotes go out with a manual error inside
Quotiss, freight rate management
20%
of an operator's day spent handling documents
Reported across forwarding operations
48 hrs
a customer can wait for a price, while somebody quicker wins the job
Typical turnaround, 24 to 48 hours
The same enquiry, two ways

An enquiry lands. Part load, ready next week.

Any lane, any trade. Nothing unusual about it, and the kind that arrives three times a day.

Today

  1. Read it properly and work out what they actually want
  2. Open the folder of carrier rate sheets
  3. Find the ones covering that lane
  4. Check none of them expired last week
  5. Decide whether it goes part load, full box or air
  6. Add the handling charges at both ends, in whatever currencies they came in
  7. Apply the minimum charge, if you remember it applies
  8. Add your margin and type the whole thing up
24 to 48 hoursTypical turnaround back to the customer, once it has queued behind everything else

With RateDeck

  1. Paste the email or the WhatsApp thread
  2. Press one button
  3. Check the figures against their sources
  4. Copy the reply and send it
Under five minutesIncluding reading it back and checking the figures before you send
How it works

Your rates go in once, as they arrive. Not every time you quote.

01

Tariffs go in the moment they land

A new sheet arrives from a carrier, you drop it in, and it is read into your rate library there and then. Excel, PDF, a scanned page, a photo somebody sent on WhatsApp. Carrier, lane, equipment, surcharges and validity dates all captured. When a tariff replaces an older one, it says so and shows you what it replaced.

Once per tariff, not once per quote
02

Paste the enquiry exactly as it came

Email or WhatsApp, tidy or scruffy, full sentences or four lines of lowercase. Origin, destination, weight, volume, commodity and ready date are pulled out for you. If the cargo needs chilling, or the goods count as dangerous, that is flagged before you quote.

Works out volume from the carton sizes
03

Every option comes back priced

Full containers, part loads and air freight in one search, ranked by price. Handling charges at both ends converted from whatever currency they arrived in. Weight bands and minimum charges applied. Anything out of date pushed to the bottom and marked.

Buy price, your margin, sell price
04

Check it, then send it

Every figure shows the file and the line it came from, so a glance confirms it rather than a rebuild. Then the reply to your customer is written for you, ready to copy into your own email. You send it, not the software.

Nothing leaves without you
The details that decide the price

All the small things that go wrong by hand.

Out of date rates blocked

A lapsed tariff drops to the bottom and is marked, so the cheapest looking number never reaches a customer by accident.

Warnings before they lapse

See which rates expire this week, so you chase the carrier for fresh ones before you are caught quoting blind.

Any currency, one number

Handling in dirhams at origin, pounds at destination, freight in dollars, or whatever else a carrier quotes in. Converted and totalled without anybody opening a calculator.

Weight or measure, handled

Part loads priced on cubic metres or tonnes, whichever is greater. Air priced on actual or volumetric weight, whichever is greater.

Weight bands and minimums

Air rates step down as a shipment gets heavier. Minimum charges catch the small ones. Both applied without anybody remembering to.

Every number traceable

Each figure carries the file and the line it came from, so anything can be checked against the document in seconds.

Chilled and restricted flagged

Refrigeration needs and restricted goods spotted from the enquiry, including the ones the customer never named as such.

Replacements tracked

When an email corrects part of last month's tariff, the new figure wins and the old one stays on record with the date it changed.

The reply, written

Options laid out with routes, transit times, prices and validity dates, ready to copy straight into your own email.

See it for yourself

A short walk through the whole thing.

A few minutes, no slides and no sign up. A real enquiry going in one end and a finished quote coming out of the other.

Watch the walkthrough
In the meantime the live demo is one click away, nothing to sign up for

Loaded with sample carrier tariffs so you can click around freely.

Being straight with you

What it does, and what it deliberately does not.

  • Sea full containers, part loads and air freight in one search
  • Every surcharge itemised and convertedHandling at both ends, in different currencies, totalled for you
  • Weight bands and minimum charges applied automatically
  • Part loads priced on volume or weight, whichever is greater
  • Out of date rates blocked before they reach a customer
  • Warnings on rates about to lapse, so you chase new ones in time
  • Every number traceable to the document it came from
  • Chilled cargo and restricted goods flagged from the enquiry
  • Your margin rules, by percentage or flat, however you price
  • ×Replace your operating systemKeep CargoWise. This only does the searching and the adding up.
  • ×Book anything with a carrier
  • ×File customs declarations
  • ×Track containers or calculate demurrage
  • ×Email your customer without youIt writes the reply. You read it and you send it.
  • ×Share your rates with anybody, everYour negotiated rates stay yours. This is not a marketplace.
Questions people ask

The awkward ones first.

Do I have to move off CargoWise?

No, and you should not. Migrating an operating system is months of work and real risk. RateDeck opens in a browser tab beside it. If you stopped using it tomorrow, nothing in your operation would break.

Half our rates arrive on WhatsApp. Does that work?

Yes. A photo of a printed rate card is read the same way as a scanned PDF, and an enquiry can be pasted in exactly as it came, timestamps and all.

How do rates get in? Do I upload for every quote?

No. Tariffs go in once, when the carrier sends them. After that they sit in your rate library and every enquiry searches all of them. You are adding a sheet perhaps a few times a month, not once per quote.

Are my rates safe? Those are our negotiated numbers.

They stay yours. Nothing is pooled, shared or shown to another forwarder. That is the whole design. This is a private tool for one firm, not a marketplace.

How do I know the figures are right?

Every number on screen shows the file and the line it was taken from, sitting next to the original value in the original currency. Your operator confirms at a glance rather than rebuilding the sum. Nothing is a black box.

What if our rate sheets are in an odd format?

Most of them are. That is the normal case, not the exception. Send yours over and they will be read properly, including the ones that are photographs of paper.

How long does setting up take?

Days, not weeks. Send your rate sheets, they get loaded, you start using it on real enquiries. There is no implementation project and no training week.

What does it cost?

A one off setup fee and a flat monthly fee. Flat, not per shipment. Your bill does not grow because you moved more boxes this month.

Get in touch

Ask us anything about it.

Tell us how quoting really works at your firm and where it goes wrong, and we will show you what RateDeck does with your kind of enquiry. A few minutes is usually enough to know whether it is worth a proper look.

+971 52 206 3913 and savan@ratedeckfreight.com

Every enquiry answered the same working day, usually within a few hours.

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