Custom software tools for small fleets and 3PLs.
Custom dispatch tools, customer-360 shipment portals, freight billing automations, and shipper communication that closes the loop. Built for small and mid-sized fleets and 3PLs.
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Your dispatchers are a phone tree. Your shippers are in the dark.
Loads come in by email, fax, EDI, and sometimes by phone. Your dispatcher rebuilds the same status answer fifteen times a day for the same five customers. Drivers send check-calls when they remember.
Meanwhile, accessorials, detention, and lumper fees pile up in a folder. Billing happens once a week, with two people reconciling driver text messages against rate confirmations. Money is left on the table every week.
- Status calls eat the dispatch desk.Customers call to ask where their load is. Dispatchers leave their seat to ask drivers. Drivers do not always answer. Repeat fifteen times a day.
- Accessorial billing leaks.Detention, lumper fees, layover. Captured in driver texts and dispatch notes. Billed two weeks later if at all.
- Multi-system reconciliation eats hours.TMS, QuickBooks, factor portal, fuel card, ELD. Five systems, four reconciliations, no source of truth.
- No self-service for shippers.Every status check, every BOL request, every POD copy goes through someone on your team.
Customer-360 shipper portal. A read-only shipment status login for your top shippers.
The 3PL's account manager or owner fields where-is-my-order calls and emails from shipper customers all day. To answer one, they pull data from a basic WMS export, the freight TMS or carrier tracking sites, and a pile of email confirmations, then cobble a status update together in Excel or reply by email. The data lives in three or four systems and one person's inbox.
This is one of 16 locked patterns in the ByteQuix Solutions Library. Browse the transportation entries for the patterns we build across truck freight, 3PL warehousing, and intermodal. Browse the transportation and logistics entries →
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Six tools that move the needle for a fleet your size.
Every fleet and 3PL is different. The tools below are the patterns we see most often. Pick the one that hurts most. We pilot it in 1 to 3 weeks.
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Customer shipment portals
Self-service status, BOL/POD downloads, and exception alerts for your top shippers. Branded to your operation.
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Dispatch-to-billing automation
Load close triggers the freight bill. Accessorials captured at the source. Factor and customer billing in one pass.
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Driver mobile capture
POD, lumper receipts, detention timers, fuel-up logs. All on a phone, all reconciled to the load.
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3PL warehouse customer portals
Inbound, outbound, inventory levels, and pick history for your 3PL clients. Live, not weekly.
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Carrier and broker reconciliation
Match your TMS, factor portal, customer pay, and QuickBooks daily. Variances flagged, not buried.
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Compliance and ELD reporting
IFTA, IRP, and HOS exception reports automated from your existing ELD and fuel card data.
5 builds for transportation and logistics.
A read-only shipment status login for your top shippers.
The 3PL's account manager or owner fields where-is-my-order calls and emails from shipper customers all day.
A one-page map of your subscription stack and the waste hiding in it.
Over a few years you have signed up for 10 to 20 SaaS tools: CRM, accounting, project management, storage, e-signature, payroll, chat, and a pile of single-feature apps.
Inbound sales calls turned into CRM leads automatically.
Inbound calls flow into the shop across a mix of new-customer service requests, existing-customer service follow-ups, billing inquiries, supplier callbacks, and sales prospect inquiries.
Score calls against your key signals, write back to CRM.
The team's CRM holds deal records, contact data, and pipeline stages, but call activity gets logged manually after the fact.
Your key operating metrics from every system, pulled into one live view.
The numbers that run the business live in five different places.
Transportation and Logistics-specific questions.
What is the difference between custom transportation software and McLeod, Tailwind, or AscendTMS?
TMS platforms cover the operational core. They rarely cover the gaps: the customer portal your three biggest shippers want, the lumper-fee capture process you do today by hand, the daily reconciliation that takes a person two hours. ByteQuix builds the gap-fillers around your TMS, on a flat $295 to $895 per month total.
How much does a custom shipper portal cost?
Off-the-shelf shipper portal add-ons from major TMS vendors run $200 to $800 per month, plus integration project fees of $5,000 to $20,000. Custom builds from a dev shop are $30,000 to $80,000 as a project, then unmaintained. ByteQuix pilots a custom shipper portal for $800 (30 days live), then runs it on the monthly plan.
Can ByteQuix integrate with my TMS, factor, and QuickBooks?
Yes. We integrate with McLeod LoadMaster, Tailwind, Aljex, AscendTMS, and similar platforms via API. Factor portal integrations (Triumph, OTR Capital, eCapital, RTS) and QuickBooks Online or Desktop. ELD integrations (Samsara, Motive, Geotab) for shipment status and HOS.
Does this work for 3PLs and warehousing, or only over-the-road carriers?
Both. The customer-portal pattern transfers cleanly. 3PLs typically start with shipper portals (inbound/outbound visibility, inventory). OTR carriers typically start with status portals or dispatch-to-billing automation.
Where is our shipment data stored?
In the United States. Per-client data isolation. ByteQuix is US-based, headquartered in the Twin Cities, Minnesota.
How long does a pilot take?
Most pilots are scoped, built, and live within 1 to 3 weeks. The pilot runs for 30 days against a specific outcome we agree on before we start (typically a dispatch-time reduction, an accessorial-capture rate improvement, or a status-call volume reduction). If it delivers, we move forward.
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