Rate shopping across your own carrier accounts

When someone opens an item fulfillment in NesoTMS, one search goes to every enabled carrier account at the same time: UPS and FedEx parcel, USPS, and FedEx Freight for pallets. The offers come back in one list, with the carrier, the account and whether it is a Test or Production account, the service, the delivery estimate and the price. The cheapest offer you can buy carries a Cheapest badge and is selected for you, so a packer who agrees with it only has to click Buy & print.

The price shown is the negotiated rate when the carrier returns one for your account, and the published rate otherwise. NesoTMS doesn't sell rates of its own: every offer is a quote from a carrier account that belongs to your company, and the carrier bills you directly.

It is built for NetSuite warehouses that hold accounts with more than one carrier and currently pick a service by habit or by a rate table nobody updates. It also suits teams that ship mostly parcels but need a freight quote when an order is a pallet, because parcel and freight offers appear in the same list and can be told apart with a Rate type switch.

Your NetSuite ship methods are your own names, such as NDA or Best Way. In the Import step you can map each one to Cheapest or to a specific service from your carrier accounts. When an order's ship method has a mapping and a buyable offer for that service exists, the cheapest such offer is preselected, and a line by the selected service says why, for example Order ship method: NDA to UPS Next Day Air. When no offer matches, the cheapest is selected and the line says that too.

Freight estimates are never preselected until their details are entered. Booking a pallet needs a description, a class, a handling-unit type and a piece count for each unit. By default each unit is classed by its density on the NMFC density scale. You can instead fix one class on the carrier account, or pick a class on a package row. Every estimate lists the classes it assumed, and the page notes that the carrier bills the class the freight actually ships at.

For a US-to-Canada shipment, UPS rates don't depend on customs. FedEx's Canada rates need the invoice's commodity lines, so once the customs items, net weights and export reference are filled in, the FedEx offers appear, and until then the rates panel says what FedEx still needs.

On Quick ship's New shipment screen, where you ship without a NetSuite order, offers can be sorted by lowest price, fastest or best value, with Cheapest, Fastest and Best value badges. Best value is the cheapest offer that is at most one business day slower than the fastest. A batch import rates each order with your parcel accounts, preselects one of those choices for every order, and keeps any rate a person picked by hand.

Nothing, until you buy. Looking at rates reads the fulfillment and writes nothing, and the rates themselves are not saved in NetSuite. When a label is bought, NesoTMS writes the chosen label's cost, the package lines with their weights, sizes and tracking numbers, and the Shipped status to the item fulfillment. The NetSuite integration page lists every field.

Rate shopping is in every plan. Basic is $99/month and includes two connected carrier accounts; more are $50/month each. Advanced is $499/month with unlimited carrier accounts. There is no per-label fee: you pay your carriers for the labels you buy. See pricing for the full comparison.

The interactive demo lets you compare made-up rates and buy a sample label in your browser, without connecting anything. The carrier pages (UPS, FedEx, FedEx Freight and USPS) list the services each carrier rates and buys, and the Test connection button on the Carriers page checks your keys against the carrier before you ship anything.