📖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.