Freight Agreement Overview: Freight Agreements define how rates are returned within the G2Mint platform. Depending on your persona, our Freight Agreements can return pricing for the Cost, the Charge, and the Benchmark/ Historical Rates (and we can show all of these for a Broker). In the G2Mint system, there are two primary types of Freight Agreements, Webservice & Custom.
A webservice freight agreement allows online real-time rating directly with the involved carrier. Because G2Mint has already setup the API integration with these carriers, the only real input required is your access credentials provided by the Carrier. When entering a Carrier with API connectivity, enter directly through the Freight Agreements module, and that will create an Account in our Engage section.
A custom freight agreement allows client specific data (including manual uploads) from an existing agreement to be applied to the G2Mint Rate Engine. These agreements can be fixed amounts (ie $500 per lane) or tiered (ie $5/mile for first 100 miles, then $4.50/mile for the next 100-500 miles), and the amounts can be based off Amount, Distance, Handling Units or Volume. To create a custom freight agreement (meaning that there is no API connection), the Account must first be created in our Engage section.
Links to common Freight Agreement How To's:
Create a webservice Freight Agreement
Create a Custom Freight Agreement
Freight Agreement Header options
Freight Agreement Rate Plan Overview
How to validate a Freight Agreement
Note: When creating an Agreement, the status must be set to In Production to return rates.
Freight Agreement critical information and FAQ's:
Agreement Types
- Blanket Benchmark- Provides a standard/ average against rated cost. These are for comparison purposes only, and are non-tenderable
- Blanket Billing- Create Rates to Bill any client (For a Broker, rates will include the Mark-up)
- Blanket Cost- These are the basic shipper/carrier service agreements. The majority of carrier contracts will fall in this category
- Blanket Rate Index- An index is an industry average that can only be used if a plugin is activated. A Blanket Index is assigned to any non-specific client
- Client Benchmark- Custom agreements only. Target rates for a specific client, otherwise same as Blanket Benchmark
- Client Billing- Custom agreements only. Client specific billing agreement where amounts will be used to invoice the client
- Client Cost- A client-specific expense agreement, ex. Shipper/ Broker creating for a Carrier
- Client Rate Index- Similar to the Blanket Index, except assigned to a specific Client
The Owning Account will always default to the primary Account Holder. This only provides options when the primary account has Divisions.
A specified Client only needs to be selected on Client-specific Agreements. This can be left blank on Blanket Agreements.
To add a specific Accessorial Table (Agreement), the agreement must first be created in Agreement>Accessorials, and assigned to that Carrier.
The Billing Location selected on a webservice Freight Agreement pulls from My Account Locations on a Blanket Agreement. If the Agreement is Client specific, the Bill To options are coming from the Clients Engage Locations OR the My Account Locations. Any location to select here must be created prior to entering an Agreement and chosen as a Bill To (or Ship/Receive location).
A Shipping Location must be within that Carriers service area to be validated on a webservice agreement.
Each Carrier has different credentials required to connect via API. The system will guide you through that information and provide instructions on how to get any missing account information.
API Supported Services in Freight Agreement>Rate Plans will detail which API services that Carrier offers.
Coverage Area and Qualifications is not required, but, if left blank, are all-encompassing (if no Coverage Area is created, the plan will apply to all areas serviceable by the Carrier).