Local Charges Guide
How to add local charges
Having set up your services, sales profiles, and suppliers, you're now ready to incorporate local charges into your WebCargo account. Firstly, ensure that your sales profiles, services, and suppliers are all set up. With these prerequisites in place, ...
How to mass update local charges
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 charges for those Classified as “Manual – Fixed ...
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
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, or both. If you apply it to both origin and ...
How to view surcharges from each airline
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. With WebCargo, we manually upload all of these surcharges, which you’re able to view ...
How to set up local charges to appear based on incoterms
Configuring local charges based on Incoterms can be useful, as the data can be presented in a simple and easy way within WebCargo’s analytics reporting feature. This allows you to see a precise analysis of your business, as well as add preset ...
How to order your local charges
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 quotation. You can do this in different ways to ...
How to create sales profiles for local charges
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 on different groups of customers. For example, ...
How to create groups of services
You can create groups of services for local charges to keep track of and group services together using WebCargo’s groups of services tool. Grouping services together allows the system to collectively calculate these services when quoting, instead of ...
How to create a service for local charges
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 be used on the quotation. Find out how to ...
How to create a group template
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 when you may use these group templates is that ...
How to add your local charges step-by-step
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 follow. Below, you can find the chronological ...
How to add suppliers for local charges
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 WebCargo’s supplier creation tool, you can create a ...
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
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 article how to choose whether the local charge is ...
Group Templates VS. Incoterms VS. Sales Profiles Which one overrides which
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 the sales Profile (Shared with Me) is factored ...