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Freight billing

Bill the load when the paperwork is actually there

Billing waits on PODs, BOLs and each customer’s rules. FreightVero won’t mark a load Delivered without a POD and signer name, and puts every unbilled load in one queue.

FreightVero load detail page with an eight-step status tracker and a required actions checklist: tracking accepted, signed rate con, BOL and freight photos, POD signed
Load detail with the status tracker and the proof each checkpoint still needs. Names changed.

Billing is where every earlier shortcut shows up

Freight billing looks simple from the outside. The load delivered, so send the invoice.

On the billing desk it looks different. The POD is a blurry phone photo with no name on it. One customer wants the BOL and POD together, another wants the rate con attached too. The load was marked delivered three days ago, and nobody uploaded anything.

So billing chases ops, ops chases the carrier, and the invoice goes out late or comes back short. Cash sits on the table while everyone looks for a PDF.

Fix it upstream, at the checkpoints

In FreightVero, a load can’t reach Freight On Board without a BOL and freight photos. It can’t reach Delivered without a POD and the signer’s first and last name. By the time a load lands in the billing queue, the core paperwork is already on it.

Each customer’s billing rules are copied onto the load when it’s booked. If a customer changes what they require next month, loads already booked keep the rules they were booked under.

More on the queue itself on the billing page. If you’re working through extra charges like detention or lumper fees, our guide to accessorial charges covers the common ones.

What the billing desk gets in FreightVero

Live features first. In development and planned items are labeled.

  • Billing queue Live

    Every delivered, unbilled load in one list, checked against that customer’s paperwork rules.

  • POD with a signer name Live

    Delivered requires a POD plus the signer’s first and last name. A load without them doesn’t reach billing as delivered.

  • Customer rules frozen at booking Live

    The customer’s billing rules in force when the load was booked travel with the load, so a rule change doesn’t rewrite old loads.

  • Billing blocked alerts Live

    When billing is blocked on a load, an alert is raised once and clears when the missing piece is added.

  • iPhone PODs upload Live

    PODs photographed on an iPhone upload as they are, next to the BOL, freight photos and signed rate con.

  • Margin reports Live

    Volume, margin, on-time and tracking coverage reports, built from the same loads you bill.

  • QuickBooks Online In development

    The secure connection is built. Invoice and bill sync are not. In development.

  • Invoice sending Planned

    Sending invoices from FreightVero is planned. Today, billing confirms a load is ready in the queue and invoices from your accounting system.

All the paperwork on one load

The documents list shows everything attached to a load: rate con versions, the signed rate con, the BOL, freight photos and the POD. Billing doesn’t need to ask ops where a file went.

Documents sit in private storage and open through expiring links.

  • BOL and freight photos required before Freight On Board
  • POD and signer name required before Delivered
  • Ready to Bill and Billed statuses on the load
FreightVero documents list with BOLs, freight photos, carrier rate confirmation versions and signed rate confirmations per load
Every rate con version, BOL, photo and POD stays on the load. Names changed.

See the billing queue on a demo

We’ll show you a load from Delivered to Billed, and what stops it along the way.

Frequently asked questions

Does FreightVero work with QuickBooks Desktop?

No. The QuickBooks work in development is for QuickBooks Online, and today it covers the secure connection only. Invoice and bill sync are not built. If your brokerage runs QuickBooks Desktop, tell us on the demo so we can talk through what that means for you.

Can FreightVero handle carrier pay?

Not today. Carrier pay and payables are not built. FreightVero holds the carrier, the signed rate con version and the POD on each load, the records a payables process usually checks before a carrier gets paid.

Who on the team can work the billing queue?

FreightVero has four roles: Admin, Operations, Sales and Billing. Billing staff get their own role, and every change they make lands in the audit log. Restricting billing screens to the Billing role alone is still being built.

See your own loads run through the checkpoints.

Bring a real lane, a real rate con and your current process. We will walk it through FreightVero and tell you plainly what is live and what is not.