Freight document automation
Forwarding still runs on documents: carrier rate sheets in Excel, invoices as PDFs, the odd photographed tariff page. Fretie's document AI reads them so your team doesn't re-key them.
Drop in a rate sheet and get quote-ready rates — lanes, container types, validity, buy and sell — reviewed by a person before anything is committed. Drop in a carrier invoice and it's parsed, matched to the shipment, and checked against what you quoted.
Rate sheets to rate ledger
PDF, Excel, CSV, or an image — the extractor normalizes carrier rate sheets into structured lanes with mode, container type, currency, unit, validity, and buy/sell rates. Your team reviews the extraction and commits it to the ledger in one step; nothing enters your pricing unreviewed.
Invoices straight into reconciliation
Carrier invoices are parsed for carrier, reference, currency, and total, then matched to the shipment by your own booking reference. The invoiced cost is compared to the quoted buy automatically — and a cost overrun raises an exception in the operations queue before it becomes margin leakage.
Guardrails on every upload
Uploads are validated server-side — file types are allowlisted to freight paperwork, sizes are capped, and files are stored and served so that nothing executable can ever masquerade as a document. Boring, and exactly what you want near your operational records.
What you get
- ✓Extracts carrier rate sheets from PDF, Excel, CSV, and images
- ✓Normalizes lanes, container types, currencies, units, and validity dates
- ✓Human review before extracted rates are committed
- ✓Parses carrier invoices and matches them to shipments by reference
- ✓Flags invoiced cost above quoted buy as an exception automatically
- ✓Strict upload validation: allowlisted types, size caps, safe serving
Frequently asked questions
+What document formats can Fretie read?
PDF, Excel (XLS/XLSX), CSV, and common image formats — enough to cover the rate sheets, invoices, and photographed tariff pages forwarders actually receive.
+Does extracted data go straight into my rates?
No. Extractions land in a review screen where your team checks lanes, prices, and validity before committing them to the rate ledger. The AI does the typing; a person keeps the judgment.
+How does invoice extraction connect to reconciliation?
A parsed invoice is matched to its shipment by your booking or quote reference, and the invoiced amount is compared to the quoted buy cost. If the carrier billed more than you quoted, Fretie raises a cost-overrun exception so your team can dispute it before it becomes margin leakage.