Let your quote desk spend their time on something more valuable than reading up standard rates from a spreadsheet to your customer on the phone.
Issue online freight quotes from your own website, powered by arl-shipping.com e-Quote - see how this will work. No software investments, just a modest quote transaction fee per quote issued. Download the 
ARL e-Quote flier. For more details, check the process support overview including deployment scenarios for transport providers.
Are you ready to start? Sign-up to use arl-shipping.com e-Quote.
e-Quote is the second module in ARL's commercial e-business package, which ends at a full yield solution.
How about a full commercial e-business package for transport covering schedules, freight quote, capacity management and bookings? Check out the e-Book e-business transport package.
Or go all the way. Do what the low-cost-airlines have done for years: Apply dynamic pricing to balance utilization across popular and less popular departures. Check out the e-Yield suite.
See more about related products:
- e-Schedule: Bring your schedules online. Take the first step to offering e-business for your transport service.
- e-Book: Offer your customers self-booking on the internet. Let your IT platform manage your capacity.
- e-Yield: Dynamic Pricing for Higher Yield and Balanced Utilization!
Hot FAQ for using ARLs e-Quote for Online Freight Quotes
Can I see which quotes have been issued?
Yes. All quotes are logged in the e-Quote backend, available for your analysis and follow-up...and who they have been issued to?If you choose so, all customers requested an online freight quote need to identify themselves prior to receiving the quote.
Do I have to update all my rate sheet again?
ARL e-Quote is maintaining corridor indexed product prices - a bit like you probably already do, if using Excel to create your rate sheets. Only a few necessary updates are required, and then all corridors/ product combinations are priced automatically.
Can I still add surcharges?
Sure, you can add surcharges applied to the base rate, and you can choose whether the customer will get an all-in rate or a detailed breakdown of all charges.
How about pick-up and delivery charges?
If you have selected the e-Schedule door-door add-on, e-Quote will automatically calculate pick-up and delivery charges based on distance tables or expected duration.
Can I price same corridor with different rates depending on service?
You can define characteristics and price independantly for multiple services covering partly or fully same corridors. So you can f.ex. price a low transittime service higher than a economical speed service covering the same corridor.
What if my customer want the quote in writing?
The quote engine send the quote by email on request - sent from your email address, as setup in e-Quote back office by you.
Can I give special rates to certain customers?
All customers get same rate. This is also the reason that login is not required.
What does it cost to use e-Quote for Freight Quotes on my web-site?
EUR 1 per quote issued, plus a modest subscription for using ARL e-Schedule.
What are the start-up fees for using ARL's e-Quote?
Zero - no investments at all. Just a modest contribution reflecting the saving you have each and every time e-Quote saves your freight quote desk for a phone call!
When can I start using e-Quote?
As soon as you have signed up and paid the initial invoice, you can start setting up the e-Quote parameters and go live a few days after that offering online freight quotes to your customers.
How do I include e-Quotes on my own website?
First you upload your the fonts and colours of your website to the e-Quote engine; then you imbed the e-Quote engine in your website - all described in details in the e-Quote documentation. The guys who maintain your website will know exactly what to do.