Harbor TMS runs ocean drayage and the road legs after it in one system: last free days on a clock, every accessorial on the invoice, and every carrier checked before it moves your freight.
Built for brokers, dispatch and billing
One desk for the port, the chassis and the road after it
The notice is keyed once. The box clears two gates, moves on a clock, and every charge reaches the invoice.
Containers pulled, loads raised.
The arrival notice is keyed once. Its containers are pulled into loads (one box or forty, one booking) and nobody types the number again.
Two gates before anything moves.
Before a box moves, the carrier has to clear compliance and the customer has to clear credit. Fail either and the load stops where it is.
Dispatched and tracked.
Posted to the boards once and you pick the carrier. Every milestone is stamped while the box’s last free day is watched.
Every charge reaches somebody’s invoice.
An accessorial captured on the load, whether chassis, storage or detention, is billed, not absorbed. An overdue invoice gets chased.
Line haul · Fuel surcharge · Chassis · Storage
Every charge on the load is on this invoice. The advance was received in full before the box was released.
A general TMS invoices and chases what is outstanding, which covers two of the four below. The other two only exist because there is a container on a chassis.
A date in a column that somebody notices the morning after.
A note in an email thread, found at month-end.
Two hours' detention, typed into the remarks column.
A pivot table rebuilt every Monday. Calls go to the loudest account.
Approaching warns. Passed is a hard exception.
Checks MC, DOT, Insurance, W9 and Signature. Dispatch paperwork will not generate.
Checks Approved, Within limit and Terms on file. Held until an approver decides, in writing.
Checks SWIFT reference, Amount and Date. One reference, once. Only the owner releases a short payment.
Every box on a clockThe platform
It all runs on one database, so nothing is re-keyed and nothing disagrees with itself.
The three screens a drayage desk lives in.
Authority, insurance and W9 on a freshness clock.
Nine tabs, one date range.
Server-side only. Every call audited.
Self-serve outside. Everything submitted is a proposal.
Invoices are built from the charges.
Dispatch works the load board, containers, carriers and arrival notices. Only approved carriers show in the picker, and invoices, payables and the P&L are not on their screen.
Dispatch
Board, carriers, arrivals
Main screen: Load boardFrom the carrier clearing to the invoice being paid, nothing is typed twice.
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Before you ask
The honest, operational answers to what a brokerage asks before it signs — the objections that stall a contract.
Customers, carriers and loads import from CSV or XLSX with column mapping, so you map them rather than re-type them. Nothing commits until you have seen a validation preview, and an import applies completely or not at all.
On one server you control, running Postgres, object storage and the application in containers. Harbor was built to be self-hosted from the start. Every table carries an organisation id and the database itself enforces it (Postgres row-level security), so no query can return another company’s records.
Because a general TMS has no field for the parts of a drayage move that cost money. The last free day is a date with a clock against it, and the advance you fronted the steamship line is a ledger entry the container cannot release without.
Your company profile, letterhead and people take an afternoon, and that is what makes the first document the system generates carry your docket rather than ours. Your own records set the real timeline: a customer list with three spellings of one consignee does not import in a single pass.
You can still build the load. The carrier is created in pending compliance and the compliance team is notified. What you cannot do is paper it, because dispatch documents refuse to generate until authority, insurance and W9 are on file and a reviewer has approved in writing.
Eleven roles ship as defaults over a grid of twenty-four modules by six actions, and that grid is yours to edit. A sales agent sees their own book only, and the server enforces it on every request.
A person who has read your file answers it.
Not live yetThis is the directory, not a claim that a connection exists today.
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Before the call, send us one container number and one invoice. We put them into Harbor while you watch, and you keep every document it produces.
