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 pattern of many we have shipped. Across truck freight, 3PL warehousing, and intermodal, the build shape is the same: a structured tool that turns shipment events into the next action automatically. See the transportation and logistics builds we have shipped →
If your transportation and logistics operation still runs on a spreadsheet, that is where we start. See how we turn a spreadsheet into a real tool →
Six tools that move the needle for a fleet your size.
Every fleet and 3PL is different. These are the patterns we see most often. Pick the one that hurts most. We pilot it in 1 to 3 weeks.
- 01
Customer shipment portals
Self-service status, BOL/POD downloads, and exception alerts for your top shippers. Branded to your operation.
- 02
Dispatch-to-billing automation
Load close triggers the freight bill. Accessorials captured at the source. Factor and customer billing in one pass.
- 03
Driver mobile capture
POD, lumper receipts, detention timers, fuel-up logs. All on a phone, all reconciled to the load.
- 04
3PL warehouse customer portals
Inbound, outbound, inventory levels, and pick history for your 3PL clients. Live, not weekly.
- 05
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.
A small fleet quietly pays for a TMS, an ELD platform, a factoring portal, fuel-card software, a separate tracking tool, and QuickBooks, and half of them overlap on tracking or billing nobody uses twice. We catalog every subscription by cost, who actually logs in, and where two tools do the same job. You keep the one-page map and the list of what to cut.
Inbound sales calls turned into CRM leads automatically.
Carrier sales and shipper inquiries hit the same phones as check-calls and billing questions, and a quote request dies the moment your dispatcher leaves the seat to chase a driver. This captures the load details and contact off the call and drops a structured lead in your system before the next line rings. Your team works the freight, not the re-keying.
Score calls against your key signals, write back to CRM.
When a broker or owner-operator works the phones, the pipeline is whatever got typed between dispatch fires, so committed lanes and real rate commitments blur together. We score each call against the signals that mean a load is actually booked, then write the stage back to your CRM. Your forecast reflects confirmed freight, not optimistic notes.
Your key operating metrics from every system, pulled into one live view.
Revenue per loaded mile, deadhead percentage, on-time delivery, and detention exposure all live in different places: the TMS, the fuel card, QuickBooks, the factor portal. We pull them into one screen so you stop exporting CSVs every Monday to see how last week actually ran. Margin by lane and by customer stays current instead of a week stale.
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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