Freight charge intelligence
Volta Orange audits every carrier invoice against your contracts and container events — surfacing overcharges, detention and demurrage exposure, and stalled disputes before the margin is already gone.
Rate applied $2,140 vs contract $1,875
Free time expires in 36h · pickup unscheduled
Fuel surcharge line missing on BOL
Duplicate BAF disputed and credited
The blind spots
Overcharges, D&D exposure, and dead disputes don’t show up as a single line item. They show up quarters later — as margin that quietly walked out of the P&L.
Rate variances, duplicate accessorials, and missing credits are buried across dozens of carrier invoice formats. AP clears the file. The 3–7% error rate becomes margin you never get back.
Nobody watches free time against live container events in one place. By the time detention lands on a statement, the last free day is three weeks behind you and the charge is uncontestable.
Finance forwards to ops. Ops emails the carrier. Claims age past 60 days with no evidence trail — and the recovery quietly expires in someone’s inbox.
What the system does
Four jobs, running continuously against every carrier and every container — so exceptions surface with owners, evidence, and a dollar amount attached.
01 · Ingest
EDI 210s, PDF invoices, rate agreements, BOLs, and carrier tracking events land automatically — any format, any source. No re-keying, no lost attachments, no month-end scramble.
02 · Reconcile
Carrier-specific charge codes are parsed, normalized, and tied back to the shipment, lane, and equipment they belong to — then compared line-by-line to the rate on file.
03 · Detect
Continuous checks surface rate variances, duplicate accessorials, missing credits, and containers trending toward detention or demurrage — with dollar exposure attached, before AP clears the file.
04 · Dispute
Each exception routes to ops or finance with the evidence already attached — BOL, rate sheet, event log. Every carrier reply, credit memo, and SLA clock is captured on the original claim.
How it works
No rip-and-replace. Volta Orange sits alongside your TMS and your AP stack, feeds off the data you already have, and starts surfacing recoveries against the last 90 days by month one.
We plug into your carrier EDI feeds, invoice inboxes, and TMS. Your rate agreements and accessorial schedules are loaded as the source of truth.
Historical invoices are re-run against contracts and container events. You see your first overcharge report — and the dollar amount you can still dispute.
Ops picks up detention risk. Finance picks up billing variances. Every flag gets an assignee, an SLA, and an evidence pack the carrier can’t hand-wave.
New invoices are audited pre-payment. Disputes close with credit memos on the record. Monthly recovery lands in the same view finance and ops both trust.
What your team sees
One live view of every container, every charge, and every open claim — rendered for the person looking at it.
Open charge exposure
$248,720
12 containers at risk
Disputes in flight
37
$91,404 claimed
Recovered · 30d
$412,600
+18% MoM
Containers past 50% of free time
Next 72h · D&D riskCatch a charge
No deck, no discovery call first. We run your last 30 days against your rate agreements and shipment events, and hand back a line-by-line list of overcharges, missed credits, and D&D exposure — with the disputable dollar next to each one.
Under NDA. No changes to your carrier relationships. No commitment past the audit.
What lands in your inbox
Line-level overcharge report
Every rate variance, duplicate accessorial, and missing credit in your last 30 days — with the contract clause behind each flag.
D&D exposure map
Containers that ran past free time, where the clock started, and which charges are still disputable with the right documentation.
Rollout plan
A 2–6 week path from first EDI feed to first recovered dollar — scoped to your carriers, lanes, and AP cadence.
