Rates management is where all your rates live. Negotiated, fixed, and any spot rates you've saved.
Open a negotiated or fixed rate to see the weekly allocation and the container price breakdown.
For less than container load and air, you'll see the cargo weight breakdown.
To book a shipment, select the rate, check the pricing details, and create the booking.
From there, you can complete the booking yourself. On a fixed rate, pick the allocation week, review, and submit.
Flexport confirms bookings placed against a rate automatically and attaches the quote as a PDF for your records. You don't need to accept it again. This booking has already gone through and it's showing as confirmed.
Rates management does a few other things. You can build and edit booking templates, including the services you want attached to each one.
Share the rate with your shipper, and they'll get an email as soon as it goes out.
If you only have a fixed rate, you can request freight all kinds or FAK pricing.
That notifies your account executive or AE, who then procures the rate for you.
Send feedback straight to Flexport, and it reaches your account manager or AE.
You can download the whole rate list as a CSV.
Select your rates, choose download, and switch the currency first if you need a different one.
Let's go back to the booking. If you're not ready to fill in the form yourself, create a draft booking and assign it to your shipper. They'll get a task to finish it.
If anything changes after they submit, you'll get a notification.
Over in bookings, there's a new booking form.
Add your purchase orders, set your role in the transaction, choose container sizes, and say whether it's a fulfillment shipment.
Destination addresses and container sizes go in here too. From there, save it as a draft or submit the booking.
Instant pricing still works the way it did. Search for rates beyond the ones Flexport has already procured for you.
The spot tag tells you which ones are spot rates and which Flexport procured.
Pick one, and you can either save it where it lands under rates or create the booking right away.
Same as before, finish it yourself or assign it to your shipper.
That's everything.
