NetFreight was designed from the start for multi-modal freight management, rather than starting life as an air or sea freight system and then having other modes of transport added.

When starting a job, the user chooses which mode of transport is required and whether it’s a single ‘Master’ or a ‘House’ job that is part of a consolidation and the system then guides the user what data fields are required. If certain fields are not available within the job build-up, then the user can add ‘Extra’ fields which can also be named.

Documents are user-definable using the 'Document Manager' software which we provide and these and external can be stored and retrieved against a job, customer or the company.

A stock of standard reports are provided with NetFreight but customers can create their own bespoke reports using the inbuilt report generator or third party products such as 'Crystal Reports'.

Also, any field descriptor can be renamed, even in a different language, which lends NetFreight well to being used on a global basis, and being browser-based, enables access over a LAN, WAN, VPN or the web from any web-enabled device including the iPhone and iPad.

Because NetFreight is web-based, its principal advantage over any Windows, Unix, AS400 or legacy mainframe system is not only the ease in which staff, clients and overseas agents can access it, but also with what they can access it with, being any web or browser-enabled device, including the ubiquitous iPhone and iPad. This makes NetFreight especially useful for people on the move that can access the data anywhere and anytime.

Clients and overseas agents have no access to the agent’s system but can access 'NetTrack' for making booking requests along with attached documents, which can be converted to jobs by the agent at the press of a button, and then be tracked by the client and/or overseas agent. The agent can also make certain documents visible to clients and overseas agents, like the invoice, so that they can print them locally.

NetFreight incorporates comprehensive multi-currency invoicing and job costing, enabling freight forwarding companies to keep a very tight control of profitability at job level with not only actual sales and costs derived from sales and purchase invoices, but also estimated sales and costs from quotations.

Actual and estimated profitability can be reported by date range, customer, mode of transport and a number of other criteria, all of which can also be output as an Excel spreadsheet for further data analysis. NetFreight’s accounting functions cover the Sales Ledger (A/R) and Purchase Ledger (A/P), but can also interface with 3rd party accounts packages such as Sage (50, 100 & 200), Pegasus, QuickBooks, Peachtree and any other accounts package that has a data import capability.