Quotations
How to use the CO₂ emissions tool when quoting
Navigating the complexities of logistics often means considering the environmental impact of your shipments. Our updated system now features enhanced tools to help you incorporate CO₂ emissions data directly into your shipping quotations, offering ...
How to convert your ad hoc rate into a spot rate
Once your Ad Hoc request has been approved by the airline, you or your colleagues can now use this as a spot rate to quote with. Read this article to find out how you can do this. Find your ad hoc rate Once you have had confirmation from the airline ...
How to add weight and dimension breaks to your quote
How to enter your weights, dimensions, and weight breaks for a static rate search. When creating your quote, you’ll first need to specify important pieces of information like your origin and destination, profits and, if necessary, your weights, ...
How to add terms and conditions templates
There’ll be times when you want to have a specific set of terms and conditions to apply to your quote to apply to certain clients so you're not entering them manually every time. Find out how you can create terms and conditions within this article, ...
How to add individual clients
When searching for static rates, you may want to apply specific client conditions or profiles for repeat quotes. You can add and select specific client conditions depending on weight breaks, services and more without having to enter this information ...
How to add client profiles
When searching for static rates, you may have specific client profiles that you want to apply sales conditions to. You can select specific conditions that are applied to rate searches, depending on weight breaks, services and more without having to ...
How to add a spot rate
Creating a spot rate can be useful in various scenarios: for example, when you’ve been offered a special rate by an airline or when you’ve requested an Ad Hoc rate on your WebCargo account, it has been approved, and now you want to utilize it. Watch ...
How to request an ad hoc rate
There are several reasons why you may need to make an Ad Hoc request. These can be that you have an existing quote that you want the price to be improved upon, you’re creating a quote from scratch, or you’re making an Ad Hoc request to the airline ...
What do the search parameters mean for a static rate search
Within this article, you’ll learn about all of the parameters to make a static search mean. You can enter many pieces of information to narrow down your search to make sure you’re seeing the most relevant rates to make your quotation. Let’s have a ...
Static rate icons and what they mean
After making a static rates search, you will see that there are a number of icons that can be found at the top right-hand side of each airline’s static quotes or to the right of each one. Hovering above, or clicking on any of these icons will give ...
Icon explanation managing your chosen static rates
Once you’ve selected your rates from a static rate search, there are a number of things you can do to manage them. These can be downloading an Excel file, a PDF file, saving on the WebCargo platform, and more depending on what actions you want to ...
How to use the volatility index for static rate quoting
Using the Volatility Index on WebCargo, you can make informed decisions about the rates you use to quote your customers. Within the quoting tool, available in the Professional & Enterprise pack types, you can view static and dynamic rates side by ...
How to use the tenders tool
By using WebCargo’s Tenders tool, you can easily extract large amounts of data, which can help you negotiate better prices with your customers. Important: This feature is available only for Enterprise or multinational account holders. In this ...
How to use the static rate quoting interface
The static rate quoting tool makes searching for static rates to compare and quote to your customers easier than ever. Access to more than 70% of airlines worldwide opens up many opportunities to win quotes from your customers if you have a paid ...
How to use the dynamic quoting feature
Having the most up-to-date rates for quoting is more important than ever, which is why we’ve created the dynamic quoting tool. Dynamic quoting means that you can add real-time prices and live capacity to the quotation you send to your clients, as ...
How to upload multiple clients using an excel file
You can upload multiple clients with conditions at one time by using the Excel file upload feature on your WebCargo account. Important: this feature is only available for Professional, and Enterprise account holders. You can watch the following video ...
How to set your preferred carriers
Depending on which carriers and airlines you want your team to make quotations with, you can choose to colour code specific airline results to make sure your team knows which ones they should and shouldn’t be selecting in certain situations. Watch ...
How to search for and save quotations
Knowing the difference between static rates and dynamic rates is important when using the WebCargo platform. The focus of this article is to show you how to use the static rates tool to search for rates and save your quotations, then to start ...
How to quote using a group template
After creating your group templates for local charges you can now choose to use them, with their added conditions, when creating your quote. Find out in the article how you can avoid manually entering conditions by selecting templates with previous ...
How to quote in a different currency
Your quotation currency, by default, will be in the currency of your logged-in country. For example, if you’re in the UK, the currency shown on the quotation is pound/Sterling. You’re able to change the quotation currency of the price shown in the ...
How to manage your ad hoc requests
After clicking ‘Save and Send’ on your Ad Hoc request, you should eventually receive responses from the airline in response to your request. You can track responses and progress within your account. First, to track the progress of your Adhoc, open ...
How to edit, request updates, and manage your quotations
After you've made a rate search and saved your quote, you need to know how to manage your quote requests. After choosing your rates and clicking save, you’re now ready to start contacting the customer about the quotation. Watch the video below or ...
How to duplicate quote information
Using WebCargo’s static rate tool for quoting, you can choose to duplicate previously created static quote information. This information is then populated into a new quote to save you the time of entering the information again. This feature is only ...
How to create multi-currency quotations
As a freight forwarder, you may deal with customer quotations in different countries, meaning taking payments and offering payment terms in different currencies. When creating a quotation using the static rate tool on WebCargo, you’re able to quote ...
How to create and manage branches
Branches is a great tool to help you run reports on quotes for individual locations, along with limiting access to quotes on a branch level. Find out in this article how you can start taking advantage of the branches tool. Important: This tool is ...