The most common dispute in trade accounts is freight — a forwarder invoice with 5 categories of surcharges, a pile of carrier codes like THC/ORC/BAF/CAF/EBS, and finance burns two days reconciling. SBK attaches every freight charge to the order by booking note, auto-compares payable vs actual, and saves 80% of reconciliation time.
Clearly categorized ocean / air / land / express, linked to orders and traceable
15+ items: ocean freight, THC, ORC, BAF, fuel surcharge, documentation fee, customs fee, insurance fee and more
Every freight charge attached to a specific booking note + export order + B/L, so trace-back is clear at a glance
Quoted freight vs actual invoiced freight auto-compared, with alerts when the discrepancy exceeds the threshold
USD / CNY / EUR freight converted to CNY at the settlement-day rate for posting
Multi-level approval by amount threshold, with batch payment on each forwarder's monthly reconciliation
Tally freight trends by route / forwarder / month to spot cost-increase inflection points
15+ standard freight items auto-grouped
The forwarder sends a month-end invoice with 8 surcharge codes, and in the past finance had to ask the salesperson even "what's BAF." SBK builds in 15+ standard freight items; the invoice is entered against the list, with each code's meaning and its corresponding booking notes clear at a glance.
Line-by-line by item (>5% in red)
The forwarder quoted USD 1,200 all-in at booking, but the invoice arrives at USD 1,450 — USD 250 over. Where from? SBK compares the booking quote against the invoice line by line by item, auto-highlights discrepancies in red, and the salesperson spots and checks them with the forwarder in a second.
Each container has its own invoice; surcharges like THC / ORC / BAF are allocated to each SO by container count.
Freight allocated to each order by CBM volume or RT weight tonnage, for accurate per-order finance accounting.
Air freight priced by KG + fuel surcharge + war-risk surcharge — most common in cross-border eCommerce.
DHL/UPS/FedEx monthly statements imported, matched to orders by AWB number, and auto-reconciled.
The booking quote is the baseline for freight payables, auto-compared when the invoice arrives
B/Ls linked to freight-payable vouchers, with traceable cash flow
USD freight runs through the FX-payment channel, with FX gains/losses auto-accrued
Once grouped to the order, freight enters order cost for more accurate margin calculation
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