Rates
Four price tiers, approval and publication, surcharges, and rate sharing across connected members with an invite-and-accept flow.
The platform
Your whole forwarding operation, on one platform
The workflows your team already runs every day — rebuilt for a network and for this decade. Every tool composes into the next, so a classification becomes a duty estimate becomes a rate becomes a booking becomes an invoice.
The composable chain
From enquiry to settlement, without re-keying
01
Classify
AI HS classification returns a code and description that flow straight into a duty estimate, a rate search or a cargo line.
02
Rate & quote
Search four-tier rates, build an all-in price with surcharges, and send a quote your customer accepts over a tokenised link.
03
Book
Acceptance creates the shipment with cost and sell lines allocated from the rate — margin visible from the first second.
04
Operate
Run the file through its lifecycle, confirm the BL over a link, track containers and customs status, collaborate with a partner.
05
Bill
Confirm charges, then raise the bill, statement and invoice — the five-layer money model that lets you settle monthly.
06
Settle
Take payment through OEX Pay or log a manual one the payee confirms; the BL releases the moment receivables are settled.
The toolset
RFQ & quotations
Post a request to the network, a segment or named partners; responses compare side by side, and a tokenised acceptance becomes a booking.
Shipments
One tabbed job, a controlled and permissioned lifecycle, online BL confirmation, consolidation, and two-forwarder collaboration on a single file.
Charges
Receivables and payables, fee bundles, mirrored inter-company charges, and dated adjustments that keep closed months intact.
Billing
Bills, statements, invoices and payment requests — confirm charges shipment-by-shipment while settling with a client monthly.
OEX Pay settlement
A double-entry ledger, manual payments, write-offs and rails. OEX never holds your funds; the BL release is gated on payment.
HS classifier & duty
AI classification and US duty & fee estimates, metered per plan, each composing into the next tool.
Accounting export
Aged AR/AP, statements of account, CSV exports and a Xero push — your books stay the source of truth.
Documents & e-sign
Generated documents and e-signature, so confirmations and paperwork live with the shipment.
Familiar workflows, rebuilt for a network
OEX isn't asking your team to learn a new way of working. Every screen mirrors a workflow independent forwarders already perform daily — the four-tier rate, the tabbed shipment file, the charge sheet split into receivables and payables, the monthly statement. What's different is that OEX opens those workflows across company boundaries, and runs them on a modern, fast platform instead of a decade-old one.
Made to switch to
Go live in days, not through a months-long implementation. Bring your whole team without paying per seat. Standardised carrier, port and charge codes mean your rates and charge data move with you — and let two companies exchange them even when their internal naming differs. Nothing is trapped, and nothing is re-keyed.
Switching & fit
Does OEX replace my current forwarding system?
That's the intent — rates, shipments, charges, billing and settlement in one place. Many teams start by running new files on OEX while they wind down their old system.
How long until we're live?
Days. You can create your company, add a rate and run a real shipment the same day. There's no certification course to operate it.
Can I bring my existing rates and data?
Yes. Rates, charge items and partners import against standardised carrier, port and charge codes, so your data isn't locked to one vendor's format.
How does it connect to my accounting?
Aged AR/AP and statements are built in, with CSV exports and a Xero push. Your accounting system stays the source of truth.