Local Charges Guide
How to add local charges
To open this article in a new tab, click here. Having set up your services, sales profiles, and suppliers, you're now ready to incorporate local charges into your Freightos for Forwarders account. Firstly, ensure that your sales profiles, services, ...
How to mass update local charges
To open this article in a new tab, click here. This article shows you how to carry out a mass update of specific types of local charges and avoid manually updating one by one. Certain limitations apply to this function, as a massive upload of local ...
Group Charges on the Actual Quote 2026
Under certain circumstances, an agent or forwarder may need to group and label separate selected costs under a classification based on any number of different criteria. This enables the user to simplify or classify the final presentation of costs for ...
Local charge parameters and what they mean
To open this article in a new tab, click here. There are many different parameters you can add to make sure local charges are being used correctly. Find out what these are. Traffic: Indicate if you want this charge applied at origin or destination, ...
How to view surcharges from each airline
To open this article in a new tab, click here. From fees for handling dangerous goods (DGR) to those for signing documentation on reception (DOC) it’s important to understand these to avoid any nasty surprises. We manually upload all of these ...
How to set up local charges to appear based on incoterms
To open this article in a new tab, click here. Configuring local charges based on Incoterms can be useful, as the data can be presented in a simple and easy way within Freightos' analytics reporting feature. This allows you to see a precise analysis ...
How to order your local charges
To open this article in a new tab, click here. With the local charges ordering tool, you can choose how to organise your local charges when creating a quotation. This saves time so you don’t have to manually organise or enter them with every new ...
How to create sales profiles for local charges
To open this article in a new tab, click here. There are going to be times when surcharges have been agreed with clients that are different from the normal set of rules usually used. It may be the case that you also have different tariffs depending ...
How to create groups of services
To open this article in a new tab, click here. You can create groups of services for local charges to keep track of and group services together using Freightos' groups of services tool. Grouping services together allows the system to collectively ...
How to create a service for local charges
To open this article in a new tab, click here. In order to create a local charge, you first need to create a name for the specific service that the charge is for. This service will then be available to select when you’re creating the local charge to ...
How to create a group template
To open this article in a new tab, click here. Using standardisation and automation with the group templates tool you can speed up the quoting process and include additional costs and variables when building a quote for your customer. An example of ...
How to add your local charges step-by-step
To open this article in a new tab, click here. Find within this article how to add services, sales profiles and suppliers to start uploading your local charges into the system. In order to add local charges, there are a number of steps you need to ...
How to add suppliers for local charges
To open this article in a new tab, click here. Keeping a list of companies that regularly supply the goods your clients need shipped is essential. Suppliers play a critical role in ensuring the shipping process is completed smoothly. Using Freightos' ...
Group Charges on the Actual Quote 2026
Under certain circumstances, an agent or forwarder may need to group and label separate selected costs under a classification based on any number of different criteria. This enables the user to simplify or classify the final presentation of costs for ...
Choosing variable or fixed pricing for local charges
To open this article in a new tab, click here. You can specify whether a local charge is variable or fixed, depending on the use case. Depending on if it’s variable or fixed, you will have to upload the data in different ways. Find out in this ...
Group Templates VS. Incoterms VS. Sales Profiles Which one overrides which
To open this article in a new tab, click here. This article is intended to help users understand the system behaviour in the case that Group Templates for Local Terms are configured and at the same time, an Incoterm such as an EXW is applied, while ...