The invoice goes out when the job ends, not when the paperwork comes back.
A consignment note signed at unloading often reaches the office three weeks later, together with the driver. For those three weeks the company funds the job out of its own pocket or through factoring. That is not a convenience problem, it is a liquidity problem.
Three stretches between unloading and payment
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Documents out of the cab
Drivers scan CMRs, invoices and photos on the terminal and send them to the office the same day. The document does not wait for the vehicle to come back, so the consignment note is in the office on the day it is signed.
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Invoices from completed transports
The system raises invoices from transports that actually ran, including collective invoices covering many orders. They reach the tax system directly from frameLOGIC, without exporting to a separate gateway.
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Profitability once the job closes
A closed order is a calculated order: kilometres driven set against the revenue, on real operating costs. It shows which freights carried a margin rather than which looked good on the rate card.
Where the shorter cycle comes from
A shorter cycle is not one feature but a closed loop. Below are the modules that form it.
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Transport settlement
Invoicing from completed transports, integration with finance and accounting systems, and dispatch of documents to the client.
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Driver app
Document scanning and delivery sign-off on the terminal, loading and unloading statuses reported in real time.
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Transport management system
The order, subcontractors and freight profitability in one flow, from intake to invoice.
Transport management system
From the order book to the invoice, without retyping
An order from a client lands in the order book together with loading and unloading points, the goods and any requirements. Execution accumulates in the transport route card: domestic and international kilometres, loaded and empty, along with the costs of the route. Invoicing takes those figures directly, including collective and periodic invoices covering several orders at once, and ends with documents dispatched to the client. Nobody retypes amounts between spreadsheets, because each stage writes into the same order record.
Faster invoicing – common questions
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Does this mean the system invoices on its own?
No. The system prepares the invoice from a completed transport, and the accounts department decides when it goes out. Issuing, sending and status tracking all run in the system, but nothing leaves it without a person deciding.
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What does a shorter cycle give beyond earlier payment?
Less external funding. Every week between unloading and invoicing is a week in which the company lends its own capital to the client, or pays factoring for it. Shortening that stretch works on liquidity without renegotiating rates.
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Do consignment notes and pallet receipts go out with the invoice?
No, and that is how it should be. Attachments such as consignment notes or pallet receipts do not travel on the invoicing path. Transport documents are therefore kept in the system independently of it – scanned from the cab and attached to the order, so both paths share the same order record.
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How is order profitability calculated?
On real operating costs, not estimates. The system sets kilometres driven against the revenue of the order and analyses the cost of each route; the wider picture of vehicle cost is carried by the fleet TCO report.
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Are collective and periodic invoices raised automatically too?
Yes. The system raises invoices from completed orders, including collective and periodic ones covering many orders at once, together with dispatch to the client. The decision to send stays with the accounts department.
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Where do the kilometres and costs on the invoice come from?
From the transport route card, which records domestic and international mileage, loaded and empty, together with the costs of the route. It is the same record that order profitability is calculated from.