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Carrier payments on a custom TMS
How do we automate carrier payments and quick pay on a custom TMS?
Connect your TMS to a payment network rather than building payments yourself. The hard part on a custom TMS is the invoice-and-POD match, so start there.
ASSUMEDWe assumed a brokerage on a custom or heavily customized TMS with AP handled by hand.
Your stack, as you described it
Where people are the glue
- AP matches PODs to invoices by hand
- Factoring companies call for status
Three ways through
- Use what you haveIf supported
If your TMS vendor has a supported connector to a payment network, use it. On a custom TMS there's no 'turn it on'.
- ConnectWhat we'd do
A connection from your TMS to the payment network (invoice, POD, approval, remittance), with the match done once and exceptions queued. Run watches it.
- BuildOnly if it's your edge
Your own payments product, if you're a freight-tech vendor and payments is the roadmap. For a broker, no.
What happens next
- We look at days from POD to paid and the match rate.
- The Diagnostic prices it next to your other leaks.
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