Again we heard our Freight Forwarders members, who asked for an easy, 1-click way to update their freight rates on the platform, especially useful in these times of troubled freight market prices.
Now, forwarders can easily select one or several rates, and apply a fixed price increase (or decrease) to the selection.
We believe this should make the AsiaCalculator.com platform even more user-friendly, and allow a better accuracy of published freight rates.
Following our users feedbacks, we have ugraded some features of the AsiaCalculator.com forwarders accounts, to improve the Freight Rates input grids.This ensures a better match between their offer and the Buyers inquiries.
2. Air freight grids:- we have implemented a 'minimum charge' for Air freight rates, allowing forwarders to reflect the minimum costs charged by air cargo companies.
3. All grids:
- using the new "Apply to all" link allows to quickly duplicate one currency to all costs sections
- new Freight quotes examples have been published to guide forwarders through the posting of their tariffs
This one was requested by our users (who always give the most valuable feedbacks and ideas).
Buyers members with Supervisor rights can now set for their account on AsiaCalculator.com a buffer margin, that will be applied on top of all the cost calculations done by their users.
This is to be used for extra security, to cover for unplanned charges that may occur during the import project (ex: fuel cost or raw material costs rise).
The feature can be activated from the "Account" tab, and Supervisors can chose to have it publicized to their users, or hidden (in which case the users won't know that an extra 2% was added to their costing calculation).
See a few screenshots below :
Lots of news and new features these last days (and more to come !).
We have just updated the homepage for AsiaCalculator.com - the changes are mainly graphical, tending towards a more sober, clean design - similar to what has been done by our sister company AsiaInspection.
One change though is that Buyers can now start signing up right from the homepage, as we tried to make the process as smooth as possible.
Great news for AsiaCalculator Freight Forwarders : you can now upload multiple Freight quotations as a batch in your AsiaCalculator.com account.
We
wanted to make our Freight Forwarders' life easier : instead of posting
quotes one by one, you can now download an Excel template, fill it with
your freight fares, and re-upload it to your account.
This way, you may post up to 100 quotations and get more inquiries from AsiaCalculator.com Buyers.
How does it work ?
2 improved features made live today :
1. For Buyers : A rating system for Freight Forwarders, allowing Buyers to get more than just prices; this was a recurrent feedback from both our importers and forwarders contacts : freight forwarding is not only about price, but also level of service.
We have therefore added several criteria on which Forwarders are rated:
We have made it easier for Buyers to invite their Forwarders on the platform; by inviting your Forwarder(s) to connect with you, you can turn AsiaCalculator into a real online freight cost management tool !
See below various ways you can invite your Forwarder(s) :
1. right when you create your own account :
2. from your account page, once registered :
3. when doing a calculation, you can also ask your Forwarder to quote on a specific route
