# Glossary

Please find below some definitions you may find useful

#### Booking or Shipment request

A booking defines a transportation request. It could be set as a draft when created, a booking can be filled gradually up to the moment it becomes one or many shipments (Multi-containers). A booking sets all parameters of a request : pickup location, delivery location, planning, cost, chosen carrier, kind of goods and packing list, legal documents… There are two different booking processes available : direct ones, and the quotations.

#### Carrier

A carrier is the partner which provides transportation services. A carrier can work with many different shippers (his clients) on Shiptify platform. A carrier can only see information related to the shipments they have been awarded with.

#### Quotation

If you make a quotation process for a booking, you will have to define which carriers you want to send it to. Each carrier will be notified about it. They can provide you with a quote or not. By the end of the quotation process, a shipper selects the carrier he wants to work with. Only this last gets to see more booking information and gets to interact with the shipper.

#### Metadata

These are key values you can attach to each booking or shipment. Keys are defined in a dictionary. There is no integrity or unicity check.