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Transportation Management System Development

Custom software for freight operations that need pricing, tendering, and settlement to work together.

Build a custom transportation management system that rates, tenders, tracks, and settles loads using your contracts, carrier rules, fuel tables, and accessorials.

We provide transportation management system development services with custom rating engines, freight settlement automation, carrier integrations, and workflows built around how your operation actually moves freight.
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SolGuruz has delivered a solution that has reduced 90% of manual efforts through automation and provided real-time insights for supplier fulfillment and order volume trends. The team is responsive to requests and changes, and their proactive approach to problem-solving has stood out.

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What Is a Transportation Management System?

A transportation management system (TMS) is software that helps businesses manage freight from booking to delivery. It helps calculate shipping costs, choose carriers, track shipments, and check freight invoices against agreed rates.

Off-the-shelf transportation management system software works well for common freight needs. A custom TMS makes sense when your pricing, carrier selection, or customer billing rules are too specific for standard software.

Our logistics software development work connects the transportation management system to the order, warehouse and finance systems around it, so a load travels from order to paid invoice without anyone rekeying a number.

on every load

What Your Transportation Management System Decides on Every Load

Six decisions, in sequence. Each one either protects margin or loses it.

Should these orders move together?

Consolidating three orders into one truck saves money and risks missing the tightest delivery window in the group. The system weighs cube, weight, destination proximity, and windows before deciding.

Which mode fits this load?

Parcel, LTL, truckload, or intermodal. The break point moves with weight, distance and urgency, and picking wrong is the most expensive routine error in freight. Operations running air, rail, or ocean alongside road need the same rating and tendering logic applied per mode, which is where most single-mode products stop.

What should this load cost?

Base rate, fuel, accessorials, minimums, and any client markup, applied in the right order. This number becomes the benchmark every later decision is measured against.

Which carrier gets offered it first?

The routing guide sequence, filtered by who is insured, authorized, has the right equipment, and actually performs on that lane. Where you run your own fleet rather than tendering out, route optimization software development handles the sequencing inside that leg.

What happens when the tender is declined?

Fall to the next carrier, open it to spot, or escalate to a person. Each choice has a cost, and the system should know which applies on this lane at this hour.

Does the invoice match what was agreed?

Six weeks later, a bill arrives. The system compares it against the tender, flags what does not match, and holds only the disputed line rather than the whole payment.

Rating is the foundation of every build, because decisions four to six all measure against the price it sets. Consolidation and mode choice come in a later phase, once a few months of load history show which rules actually save money.

Need Help Choosing Custom vs. Off-the-Shelf?

Tell us about your freight setup, and we'll help you determine what type of TMS fits your operation.

What Goes Into a Transportation Management System Rate Structure

Transportation management system projects often get complicated when pricing rules are not clearly defined. A custom TMS can handle carrier rates, fuel surcharges, accessorial charges, minimums, customer billing, and rate changes in one system.

LayerWhat it holdsWhy products struggle with it
Contracted ratesPer-lane, per-carrier, per-equipment pricing with effective datesRates change mid-quarter, and both versions have to stay queryable for audit
Fuel surchargeIndex source, update frequency, escalator tables that differ by carrierMost platforms support one table. An operation with six carriers needs six
AccessorialsDetention, layover, liftgate, inside delivery, reattempt, each with trigger conditionsKnowing detention applies is easy. Proving when the clock started is not
Minimums and capsMinimum charge per shipment, per-lane caps, maximum accessorial exposureRarely configurable, and it is where margin quietly disappears
Sell-side pricingWhat you charge the customer, as distinct from what you pay the carrierProducts built for shippers have no sell rate concept at all
Effective datingWhich version of a rate applied on the day the load actually movedAudits ask for the rate that was live six months ago, not today's

Two operations moving identical volumes on identical lanes can have completely different rate structures. That structure, not the load count, decides the build.

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When Do You Need a Custom Transportation Management System?

Packaged TMS platforms work well when your freight follows their standard setup. A custom TMS makes sense when your pricing, workflows, or client requirements are more complex.

Finance Corrects Freight Costs Every Month

If your team has to manually fix freight costs because the system cannot handle your contracts, the rating model is not working. Better reports will not solve the problem.

Your Accessorial Rules Cannot Be Configured

Your detention, liftgate, minimum charge, or other accessorial rules may vary by customer, carrier, lane, or equipment. Standard products may not support these different rules.

You Buy Freight and Sell It to Customers

Brokers and 3PLs need to manage both the carrier's buy rate and the customer's sell rate on the same load. This also lets you track your margin for each account.

Your Routing Guide Is More Than a Simple List

You may have different tender rules by lane, customer, or day. If your dispatchers have to remember these rules manually, your TMS should be able to manage them.

You Manage Freight for Multiple Clients

You may need separate client data, pricing, billing, and service rules while using the same carrier network. A custom TMS can manage these requirements in one system.

Seeing two or more of these in your operation? A rapid POC development build reruns last quarter's settled invoices through a custom rating engine. It shows where your current system prices freight wrong before you fund the full TMS.

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Transportation Management System Development Services We Deliver

Each of these ships as a standalone engagement or as one module inside a wider platform build.

Freight Rating and Contract Engine Development

The rate engine is the core of a transportation management system. It manages carrier rates, effective dates, fuel surcharges, accessorials, minimums, and customer markups in one place. We build the engine to apply these rules in the right order and handle high-volume rating during settlement.

Carrier Network and Tendering Module Development

Every carrier is a relationship with rules attached. We build carrier onboarding with insurance, operating authority and safety rating checks, then build the routing guide logic deciding who is offered a load first, how long they have to accept, and who it falls to when they decline. Where spot pricing matters, machine learning development trains the model on what your lanes actually paid rather than a published index.

Freight Audit and Settlement Automation

This is where most operations recover the cost of the build. The system matches carrier invoices against what was tendered, flags accessorials nobody authorized, catches duplicate billing and holds disputed charges without stopping payment on the rest. If you are not sure which part of settlement to automate first, our AI consulting engagement scopes it against your invoice history.

TMS Integration Services for Carriers, ERP and EDI

Contracted carriers often still use EDI. Our TMS integration services connect your system with carrier EDI, parcel and digital carrier APIs, ERP, warehouse, and telematics systems. We map and test each connection before launch and monitor it after go-live, so failed transactions are caught quickly.

Shipment Tracking and Visibility Software

Our shipment tracking software development pulls carrier EDI 214 status messages, parcel API events, and telematics pings into one timeline per load. Dispatch works from a single view of every shipment rather than checking each carrier's site. Late pickups, missed milestones, and dwell past the agreed window trigger alerts with the load details attached. Each event is stored against the load, so detention and on-time disputes get settled from the record.

Shipper and Customer Portal Development

A transportation management system has users outside your company. Shippers book loads, customers track them, carriers accept tenders and upload paperwork. We build that external layer so those parties self-serve instead of emailing dispatch, with permissions keeping each one to their own freight.

Multi-Client TMS for 3PLs and Brokers

A multi-client TMS lets a 3PL or broker run one carrier network while keeping each client's rates, rules, and data separate. If you also store that client's stock, 3PL logistics software for warehousing and client billing handles the storage charges on the same account. On every load, the system records the carrier's buy rate next to the client's sell rate. That margin view shows which accounts are worth keeping on your network.

TMS Migration and Contract Data Consolidation

Moving to a new TMS means transferring rate cards, carrier contracts, accessorials, and load history from old systems. This is part of legacy application modernization. We clean and validate the data, check pricing against real loads, and move carriers in phases to reduce disruption.
Build a TMS Around Your Freight Operations

Tell us how you manage rates, carriers, and shipments, and we'll help define the right TMS scope.

TMS Integration: Systems and Carriers We Connect Your Transportation Management System To

A transportation management system sits between your commercial systems and the carriers who move the freight. Both sides need building.

ConnectionWho we work withWhat it changes
Contracted carrier EDI204 tender, 990 response, 214 status, 210 invoice, per partnerTenders and status move automatically instead of by phone and email
Parcel and digital carrier APIsFedEx, UPS, DHL, regional parcel networksLive rate shopping at booking rather than a static table
Load boards and spot marketsDAT, Truckstop, broker portalsSpot coverage when the routing guide runs out, priced in the same system
Telematics and ELDSamsara, Geotab, Motive, Verizon ConnectRemaining driver hours checked before a load is assigned to your own fleet
ERP and accountingSAP, Oracle NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, QuickBooks, XeroApproved invoices post without rekeying, and freight cost lands against the right account
Order, inventory and warehouseManhattan, SAP EWM, Blue Yonder, Supply'd, Shopify, custom WMSOrder and stock status visible to dispatch on one screen
Visibility platformsproject44, FourKites, carrier tracking feedsOne status source rather than four carrier portals

WMS and TMS integration is the connection most operations get wrong, because a load tendered against unpicked stock arrives at a dock with nothing to load. Where the warehouse side needs building rather than connecting, that is custom warehouse management system development.

TMS and ELD integration matters for the same reason in reverse. A dispatch that breaches driver hours is a compliance problem the system should have caught before assigning the load.

Where your own trucks need live tracking, maintenance records, and vehicle inspections, fleet management software development covers that side of the operation. The TMS reads driver hours from those systems but stays focused on freight pricing and tendering.

Custom logistics CRM development handles the commercial work that happens before a load exists, such as shipper accounts, quotes, and carrier relationships. Your TMS takes over once the order is booked and needs a rate, a carrier, and an invoice.

Know Which Carriers Need Connecting First?

Send us your carrier list, and we will map the connectivity sequence.

Carrier Compliance and Chain of Responsibility

When you assign a load to a carrier, your responsibility does not end there. A TMS should check whether the carrier is insured, authorized, and compliant before the shipment is dispatched. This helps reduce compliance risks and prevents issues from being discovered after the load is already moving.

What the system verifiesWhen it runsWhat it prevents
Operating authority and license statusAt onboarding, then re-checked on a scheduleTendering to a carrier whose authority has lapsed
Insurance certificate and expiryAt onboarding and before every tenderDiscovering the certificate expired after a claim
Safety rating and performance historyAt onboarding, then monitored against live dataRepeatedly booking a carrier who misses on that lane
Equipment and endorsement suitabilityAt load buildA reefer load going to a dry van, or hazmat to an unendorsed carrier
Driver hours capacity on dedicated fleetBefore assignment, from the ELD feedA dispatch that breaches FMCSA, EU 561/2006 or HVNL limits
Chain of Responsibility dutiesContinuously, with a logged decision trailAn unsafe schedule that can be traced back to your instruction

If a carrier fails a check, the tender stops until a named manager approves it. The system saves the carrier's insurance and authority status at that moment, so a cargo claim months later can be answered from one record.

Which Carrier Checks Do You Run Manually?

Tell us how carriers get vetted today and we will scope the automation.

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How We Build Your Transportation Management System

We build your TMS in five stages, starting with rates and carrier requirements before development begins. Carrier onboarding can have a bigger impact on the timeline than the actual engineering work.

  1. 01 / 05

    Rate and Contract Review (2-3 weeks)

    We start with your carrier contracts, rate cards and accessorial schedules rather than your load volumes, because a transportation management system is priced on how complex your pricing is. We reprice 90 days of settled loads by hand against those contracts and compare the result with what you actually paid. The gap is usually the business case.

    Deliverables: Rate structure map, contract inventory, settlement variance analysis, leakage estimate and a fixed-scope quote.

  2. 02 / 05

    Carrier and Partner Mapping (1-2 weeks, alongside Stage 1)

    Every carrier is a separate integration with its own quirks. We document which runs on EDI and which on API, which transaction sets each supports, what their sandbox looks like and who at their end owns the connection. This stage exists because carrier onboarding is what pushes most TMS projects past their date.

    Deliverables: Carrier connectivity matrix, transaction set inventory, confirmed sandbox access, onboarding sequence and timeline.

  3. 03 / 05

    Rating Engine First, Workflow Second (8-14 weeks)

    We build and test the rating engine first using historical shipment data. Once pricing works correctly, we add tendering, dispatch, and settlement workflows. AI-assisted code is also reviewed through our AI code audit services before it is merged.

    Deliverables: Validated rating engine, tendering workflow, dispatch console, settlement module and carrier connections live in staging.

  4. 04 / 05

    Parallel Settlement Run (2-4 weeks)

    For one full billing cycle, every carrier invoice is settled twice: once through your current process and once through the new system. We compare the results line by line. Any difference shows whether the new pricing needs fixing or the old process was overpaying.

    Deliverables: Line-level reconciliation report, variance log, corrected rate model and finance sign-off.

  5. 05 / 05

    Carrier-by-Carrier Cutover (ongoing)

    We move freight by carrier group instead of switching everything at once. Your largest contracted carrier goes first because it gives the rate logic the biggest test. Spot and parcel carriers usually move last. Finance keeps the old settlement process running for one full billing cycle as a backup.

    Deliverables: Carrier-group migration plan, parallel billing cycle, rate card handover and performance dashboard.

How we engineer

Our AI-Native Engineering Standards

AI-native by practice, engineer-led by principle. These are the rules every SolGuruz team works to, on every project, whatever the stack or industry.

  1. 01Architecture and Design Quality

    • Spec-Driven Requirements

      Every feature has written acceptance criteria and a traceable spec before development starts, and AI checks the spec for gaps, conflicts, and missing edge cases.

      Engineer-ledEngineers review every spec for feasibility before it’s estimated.

    • Architecture Standards

      Architecture, data model, state management, and integrations follow proven patterns for scale, security, and maintainability, and every key decision is documented.

      Engineer-ledAn engineer signs off every architecture decision.

    • Design System and Accessibility

      Every screen is built from a shared design system in Figma, with AI-assisted accessibility checks and design-to-code handoff.

      Engineer-ledDesigners own every design decision and its consistency across devices.

  2. 02Code Quality and Security

    • AI-Assisted Development, Human-Owned Code

      Developers use Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor for scaffolding, boilerplate, and repetitive patterns, never for unreviewed logic.

      Engineer-ledEngineers own the logic and review every AI-generated change.

    • Coding Standards, Git Flow and Peer Review

      Code follows agreed conventions and a Git Flow branching model, and AI-assisted review flags issues on every commit.

      Engineer-ledA second developer reviews every change before it merges.

    • Secure and Compliant by Default

      ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified processes, SOC 2-aligned controls, least-privilege access, and encryption in transit and at rest, with HIPAA-aligned safeguards where health data is involved.

      Engineer-ledAn engineer owns every security review.

  3. 03Testing and Release Safety

    • AI-Generated Tests and Manual QA

      AI generates unit tests, edge cases, and regression suites from the codebase, and automated suites run on every build.

      Engineer-ledQA engineers test the real user flows by hand before every release.

    • Static Analysis and CI/CD Pipelines

      Static code analysis scans every commit, and CI/CD pipelines build, test, and deploy across development, staging, and production.

      Engineer-ledEngineers set the quality gates the pipeline enforces and fix what the scans flag.

    • Release Safety

      Every release has staged environments, a tested rollback plan, and alpha and beta builds for internal and external users before full rollout.

      Engineer-ledEngineers review release metrics before each rollout phase.

  4. 04Reliability and Ownership

    • Observability

      Crash reporting, performance monitoring, and usage analytics are live from launch day, with alerts routed to the team that built the product.

      Engineer-ledEngineers act on every alert and track trends for the life of the product.

    • Data-Driven Iteration

      Product analytics are instrumented from launch, and new features are prioritized from user feedback and data, not guesswork. For clients without an in-house marketing team, we also run the growth strategy.

      Engineer-ledEngineers turn analytics into the backlog for each release.

    • Documentation, Ownership and Ongoing Support

      AI keeps API references and technical docs in sync with the code, and maintenance plans keep the product secure and up to date.

      Engineer-ledYou get full repository access and IP ownership, and one in-house team stays accountable for the outcome.

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Industries We Build Transportation Management Systems For

Freight costs, carrier rules, and billing change with every sector. Here is how the TMS handles each one.

  • Freight Brokerage and Forwarding

    Margin lives in the gap between the buy rate and the sell rate. The system has to price both sides of a load, track the spread, and flag when it goes negative before the truck moves. Forwarders add a second layer, because a single shipment may cross road, ocean and air on three separate rate structures.

  • Third-Party Logistics (3PL)

    Third-party logistics providers often combine freight from several clients on one truck, then need to split that cost fairly. The system divides each shared load by weight, cube, or stops, and applies each client's own carrier preferences at tender. Clients get freight reports that show only their shipments.

  • Carriers and Asset-Based Fleets

    If you own the trucks, the system first needs to decide which loads to take. It looks at lane profit, backhaul opportunities, and driver availability before assigning the load. Once a load is accepted, route optimization software development helps plan the best sequence for each route.

  • Manufacturing and Industrial Distribution

    Inbound raw materials and outbound finished goods run on different contracts, different carriers, and different cost centers. The system plans both without treating them the same. Per-plant cost allocation is usually the reason a packaged product stops fitting.

  • Retail and Ecommerce Distribution

    Store replenishment, direct-to-consumer parcels and returns move through one network on three different rate structures. Rate shopping at booking is where the savings sit, because the cheapest carrier changes by weight band and destination. Returns are the leg most systems price last and worst.

  • Food and Beverage Distribution

    Standing orders, carton-versus-unit conversion, customer price tiers and multi-address delivery from one billing account. Much of that lives in a food ERP such as Supply'd, and the freight layer has to read it without breaking the stock allocation behind it. Temperature bands narrow the carrier list before cost is considered.

  • Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Distribution

    Our healthcare software development teams build freight systems that hold custody evidence and validated cold chain records at every handover. Carrier qualification is stricter here, because a carrier without the right certification cannot legally move the load. Audit trails are a licensing requirement rather than good practice.

What Does Transportation Management System Development Cost?

TMS development costs typically range from $20,000 to $50,000+, with timelines from 12 weeks for a core build to 20+ weeks for an enterprise platform. Five factors have the biggest impact: carrier integrations, rate complexity, buy-and-sell pricing, multi-client support, and EDI requirements.

Build typeWhat it coversTimelineInvestment
Core TMSSingle operation, contracted rating, dispatch console, tendering, up to five carrier connections12 to 16 weeks$20,000 to $35,000
Multi-module TMSSettlement automation, customer portal, ERP and WMS integration, complex accessorials16 to 20 weeks$35,000 to $45,000
Enterprise TMS platformMulti-client separation, buy and sell rating, thirty-plus carrier connections, compliance architecture20+ weeks$50,000+

Your rate sheets and carrier contracts decide which row fits your operation. We review both during discovery and share a fixed-scope estimate before writing any code.

Rate complexity moves the price more than anything else. A flat per-mile rate and a client-specific accessorial matrix with effective dating are different engineering problems, and the second is where most of the build sits.

Carrier count comes next. Each EDI partner requires its own mapping, testing, and monitoring, which is why we price connections separately rather than bundling them.

For a full cost breakdown by module and integration, read our guide to logistics software development cost.

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Technologies Behind Your Transportation Management System

We build on frameworks that hold up under shipment volume, live tracking loads and continuous integration traffic.

  • Claude Code
  • GitHub Copilot
  • Cursor
  • Windsurf
  • v0
  • Gemini
  • Codex
  • Banani
  • Figma Make
  • Uizard
  • Pencil Dev
  • Stitch
  • Kiro
  • Antigravity
  • User-doc
  • Miro AI
  • Whimsical AI
  • Flutter
  • Android
  • Apple
  • React Native
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • ReactJs
  • Electron
  • Angular
  • WordPress
  • Webflow
  • FlutterFlow
  • Java
  • PHP
  • Node.js
  • Python
  • Laravel
  • Django
  • FastAPI
  • Flask
  • Nestjs
  • Feathersjs
  • Strapi
  • Netlify
  • Contentful
  • Storyblok
  • Butter CMS
  • Directus
  • TensorFlow
  • PyTorch
  • OpenCV
  • Hugging Face
  • Kaggle
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • Ollama
  • Claude
  • Voiceflow
  • Vapi AI
  • Perplexity.Ai
  • Stable Diffusion
  • CrewAI
  • N8n
  • Langflow
  • Keras
  • LangChain
  • Google Colab
  • Rasa
  • Llama 4
  • PaLM 2
  • MYSQL
  • AmazonDynamoDB
  • Firebase
  • Firestore
  • Supabase
  • PostgreSQL
  • Oracle
  • Redis
  • MongoDB
  • Cassandra
  • Elasticsearch
  • Pinecone
  • Pgvector
  • Weaviate
  • AWS
  • Digital Ocean
  • Google Cloud
  • Twilio
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Azure
  • Mocha
  • JMeter
  • Appium
  • SoupUI
  • Jest
  • Maven
  • Test NG
  • Selenium
  • Cucumber
  • Postman
  • Cypress
  • Rest-Assured
  • TravisCI
  • CircleCI
  • Gradle
  • Jenkins
  • Github-Actions
  • Bitbucket-Pipelines
  • Gitlab CI/CD
  • SonarQube
  • Grafana
  • Codemagic
  • Terraform
  • Bamboo
  • Vercel
  • GitLab
  • Git
  • Github Actions
  • Nginx
  • PM2

Why Choose SolGuruz as Your Transportation Management System Development Company

A load board is only one part of a TMS. We build systems that connect rating, dispatch, carrier management, EDI, and settlement in one workflow.

  • We Build the Rating Engine First

    Most TMS projects are judged on whether dispatch likes the screens. We judge ours on whether the invoice matches the tender. The rate model is validated against your own settled loads before any workflow gets built, so pricing accuracy is proven in week four rather than discovered in month eight.

  • We Write the Rate Spec Before the Code

    Rating rules are the part everyone describes differently. Finance means one thing by a minimum charge, dispatch means another, and the contract says a third. Our spec-driven development approach documents every rule, every trigger condition and every order of application, and gets it signed off before a line is written. That written spec is also what keeps AI-assisted code inside the rules rather than inventing its own.

  • AI Where It Pays, Not Where It Demos

    Our AI development services train models on your own settled freight, not industry averages. That means spot rates priced against what the market actually paid on your lanes, transit times predicted from your carriers' real performance, and invoice exceptions flagged by pattern rather than by threshold. We do not put AI in the tendering decision itself, because a contracted routing guide is a rule, not a prediction.

  • We Reconcile Before You Cut Over

    One full billing cycle of real invoices settled twice, once by your current process and once by the new system, reconciled line by line. Nothing goes live until finance signs off on the variance. That stage is the reason our builds do not produce a billing backlog at go-live.

  • Carrier Onboarding Is Scoped, Not Assumed

    We map every carrier connection before development starts: transaction sets, sandbox access, who owns it at their end. Carrier onboarding is what pushes TMS projects past their date, and it is the one part most quotes leave out entirely.

  • Certified to ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015

    Both independently audited. ISO 27001:2022 governs how we handle information security, which matters when a system holds negotiated rate cards, carrier contracts and client margin data that competitors would pay for. ISO 9001:2015 governs delivery quality, and it is the framework behind our 99.9% on-time delivery rate and zero abandoned projects since 2019.

  • Your Finance Team Owns the Rates

    Fuel tables, accessorial schedules, carrier rate cards and client markups sit in a configuration layer your finance team edits directly, with effective dating built in. When a carrier moves a surcharge, nobody raises a ticket.

  • A Delivery Record Behind the Build

    102+ products shipped across 14 industries and 17+ countries, with an 80% repeat client rate. Teams wanting TMS capacity inside their own sprints can hire dedicated developers for logistics platforms from the same bench of 90+ engineers.

Client Testimonials

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Food & Beverage

Custom Software Solution Development / Driver Dashboard & Invoice Automation for Food Service Company

SolGuruz has delivered a solution that has reduced 90% of manual efforts through automation and provided real-time insights for supplier fulfillment and order volume trends. The team is responsive to requests and changes, and their proactive approach to problem-solving has stood out.

Summarized from Gary Boyd's Clutch review

Gary Boyd, CEO, Tasty Food Guys

United StatesLake Worth Beach, Florida, United States

Jan. 2025 - Ongoing
Automotive

Custom Google Inventory Feed Solutions for Car Dealership Company

Thanks to SolGuruz, the client became one of the first businesses in their location to implement Google shopping ads for vehicles. The team managed the engagement well and was highly flexible in terms of communication. They were also helpful and offered unique services that others didn't provide.

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Jan. 2023 - Mar. 2023
Diamond & Jewelry

Web Development for Diamond Wholesaler

The client got exactly what they needed, leaving them completely pleased with SolGuruz's services. The team instituted a smooth workflow by being highly attentive to the client's needs. Moreover, the team boasted exceptional communication skills and was always willing to lend a helping hand.

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Transportation management system software prices, books and settles freight. It works out what a load should cost under your contracts, offers it to carriers in your routing guide order, then checks the invoice against what was agreed.

A review of your carrier contracts and rate cards, a validated rating engine, then tendering and settlement built on top, a parallel billing run against real invoices, and a carrier-by-carrier cutover.

A core build runs $20,000 to $35,000. A multi-module platform with settlement automation and integrations runs $35,000 to $45,000. Enterprise platforms with multi-client separation start at $50,000.

A core TMS takes 12 to 16 weeks, a multi-module build 16 to 20 weeks, and an enterprise platform 20+ weeks. Four carriers on one EDI connection sit at the short end, while thirty carriers across six transaction sets run longer.

When finance corrects the platform's numbers every month, when your accessorial rules cannot be configured, or when you need a buy rate and a sell rate on the same load.

Connecting your transportation management system to the systems around it: ERP and accounting, warehouse and order platforms, telematics feeds and carrier EDI. Each connection is scoped, mapped, and tested separately.

Yes. The TMS reads weights, dimensions, and pallet counts from the WMS, then sends back the booked carrier, pickup time, and dock slot. Manhattan and SAP EWM connect through APIs, while older systems often need EDI mapping.

Yes. Samsara, Geotab, Motive, and Verizon Connect. TMS and ELD integration matters because remaining driver hours should be checked before a load is assigned, not reported afterward.

Because a system that moves freight but cannot bill for it is worse than no system. We validate pricing against your settled loads before any workflow is written.

Matching carrier invoices against what was tendered, flagging unauthorized accessorials and duplicate billing, and holding only the disputed line rather than the whole payment while it is resolved.

Yes, and transportation management software for brokers needs it. Platforms built for shippers have no sell rate concept, which is why margin per account usually lives in a spreadsheet.

Yes, and it is a different architecture rather than a feature. Separated client data, per-client rating and billing, activity-based charging, and margin visibility per account.

204 tender, 990 response, 214 status, and 210 invoice for contracted carriers, plus REST APIs for FedEx, UPS, and DHL. Each is scoped and priced separately.

Yes. One full billing cycle of invoices gets settled by both systems in parallel and reconciled before anything switches. Then freight moves across carrier group by carrier group.