A single movement can involve a line operator, a port, a clearing agent and a trucker, billing in three currencies over six weeks — and you invoice the customer once, early, from an estimate.
Logistics margin is thin by design, which means it survives only if the costs that arrive later are the costs you assumed when you quoted.
The fix is not exotic software. It is that every supplier bill is posted in its own currency at a dated rate, against a reference you can group by — so the comparison is possible at all.
Being clear about scope: this is the accounting and purchasing spine, not an operations system. That distinction is worth making before a demo rather than after.
Buy in dollars, euros or dirhams with dated exchange rates, and a base-currency ledger that still balances. Gains and losses land where they should rather than being absorbed silently.
On a business where the cost side is largely foreign-currency and the revenue side is largely AED, that is not a convenience.
Multi-warehouse stock with transfers that post on both sides, goods receipts against orders, and a stock ledger with a running quantity and value you can read line by line.
For a bonded or third-party operation, the audit trail matters more than the feature list.
Purchase orders routed for sign-off by amount and document type, with posting blocked until approved — so a surcharge nobody agreed to is visible before it is paid.
Whoever raises a document and whoever approves it can be two different people.
Receivables aging with customer statements, payables aging with supplier statements, and post-dated cheques tracked through to clearance on both.
In a business where you pay in thirty days and collect in sixty, those two reports are the cash-flow forecast.
Post cost and revenue against a cost centre — a trade lane, a branch, a division — and compare against a budget set at the start of the year.
It is the level at which this platform answers “which part of the business is working”, and it is worth designing your cost centres around the questions you actually ask.
Forklifts, racking, reefer units and vehicles sit in fixed assets with depreciation posting itself on a schedule rather than being remembered at year end.
For an asset-heavy operation that is one less spreadsheet and one less audit conversation.
No card, no setup call. Bring the four supplier bills from one job and the invoice you raised against it.
What changes is who bills you and in what currency. The purchasing, the warehouses and the receivables underneath are the same.
Supplier bills in several currencies against one movement, invoiced to the customer in AED.
Disbursements and agency fees recovered from the client, with the paperwork attached.
Storage and handling billed to account customers, over multi-warehouse stock.
High volumes of small jobs, billed monthly on account rather than per drop.
Temperature-controlled storage and movement, with the same stock and cost controls.
Principal disbursements and agency income, tracked on one ledger.
Not a generic retail tool with a currency switch bolted on the side.
Invoices, credit notes and purchases carry VAT as you raise them, with the totals your return needs already summed. See VAT accounting software and what e-invoicing will require.
Dated exchange rates on every foreign bill, with the base-currency ledger balancing and exchange differences landing where they belong.
Basic covers a single branch from AED 115 a month. Multi-branch stock and transfers start on Professional at AED 215, which covers three — see pricing.
Purchasing, warehouses, receivables and the ledger are one platform. It is the financial spine of a logistics business rather than its operations screen, and it is worth being precise about which of those you are buying.
See the full feature listChart of accounts, journals, AR and AP, post-dated cheques, bank reconciliation and an audit trail — the ledger is here.
Post cost against a cost centre — a branch, a division, a trade lane — and compare it to budget.
Forklifts, racking and vehicles on the balance sheet with depreciation posting itself — see assets management.
If the fleet is the business rather than a supplier, see transport and fleet software.
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Yes. Every location is a location of the same item, transfers post on both sides, and the stock ledger holds a running quantity and value you can read line by line.
Through cost centres and by grouping documents on a shared reference, yes — but be clear about what that is. There is no consignment or job record that automatically accumulates every supplier bill and the customer invoice against it. It is a reporting dimension you post to, not a job ledger. If per-shipment profitability is the number your business runs on, raise it with us before you commit.
No. There is no track and trace, no container status, no milestone tracking and no EDI with lines or ports. This is the accounts, purchasing and warehouse side. Most forwarders run it alongside whatever operational system they already use.
Yes. Purchase orders above a value you set are held until signed off, posting is blocked until the sign-off completes, and whoever raises a document can be a different person from whoever approves it.
Yes, with dated exchange rates on each document and a base-currency ledger that still balances.
Yes, and an aged receivables list. Both by bucket, with statements on either side and post-dated cheques tracked through to clearance.
Yes, as billable lines on the customer invoice, with the supplier bill and its paperwork attached to the record so the recovery can be evidenced.
Yes. VAT is calculated on every purchase, invoice and credit note as you raise it, with the totals your return needs already summed. Zero-rated and out-of-scope treatments are set through tax codes.
Yes. Multi-branch stock, users and reporting on one set of books, with cost centres to separate them in reporting. Multi-branch starts on the Professional plan.
Bring the supplier bills from a single job in their own currencies and the invoice you raised, and see what the margin actually was. Fourteen days free, no card, export any time.