Guides

How the work of a consolidation agent actually goes, and what Consolly does at each step — with the real screens. Written for the person who runs the agency, not for a software buyer.

• Consolidation software for sourcing agents

  What software for a cargo consolidation agent has to do: many shops, one container, one customer statement. What Consolly does at each step, with the real screens.

• How to make a packing list for a consolidated container

  A packing list for a container loaded from many shops, and how to get it right every time: what goes on it, why it drifts, and how Consolly writes it from the cartons actually loaded.

• How to track cartons from many shops into one container

  Every carton is in one of four places — ordered, in the warehouse, loaded, shipped — and they have to add up. How a consolidation agent keeps that true across twenty shops and two containers.

• What a sourcing agent should show each customer they are owed

  Charged, paid, paid on their behalf, and the balance. Why the money a consolidation agent is owed ends up in three places, and what one statement per customer looks like.

• Why a loaded container should be locked in your software

  The seal goes on, then somebody corrects a count a week later and the packing list no longer matches the box. How locking a container in Consolly stops that.

• Give each customer their own page, so they stop asking

  A page each customer opens with their own address and password: every order, every carton you are buying, holding and shipping for them, and their account with you. What it shows, what it never shows, and how it ends "any update on my order?".