TMS for freight brokers

Quote any shipment in seconds. Win more freight.

Cargavo turns your carrier rate grids into instant, margin-safe quotes. Compare every carrier, price with your rules, and reply before your competitors pick up the phone.

  • 14-day free trial
  • No credit card required
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Built for freight brokers, forwarders and 3PL teams

The daily grind

Quoting from spreadsheets is costing you loads

Most brokerages still price freight by hand — hunting through Excel tabs, emailing carriers, guessing at margins. Every slow quote is a shipment your competitor wins.

  1. Hours per quote

    Rate lookups across a dozen carrier spreadsheets, then manual math for fuel and options — while the customer waits.

  2. Invisible margin leaks

    One wrong cell or an outdated tariff and you sell below cost without noticing until month-end.

  3. Customers left in the dark

    No self-service pricing, no booking portal — every request lands in your inbox and stays there.

One system that prices like your best operator

Cargavo centralizes every carrier tariff, applies your margin rules consistently, and answers in seconds — for your team and, if you want, directly for your customers.

  • All carrier grids in one place, always current
  • Margins applied by the engine, never by memory
  • A customer portal where your customers quote and book themselves

The platform

Everything a brokerage needs to price, sell and ship

From rate grid to delivered shipment — one workspace, no spreadsheets.

Quoting

Every carrier, one quote

Compare all your carriers side by side — buy rates, sell prices and transit times, cheapest first. Send the winning option in one click.

Rate grids

Your tariffs, structured

Rebuild weight-zone, pallet, linear-meter and hybrid grids from the Excel or CSV sheets your carriers already send. Zones, brackets, validity dates and currencies — all handled.

Margins

Margins that protect themselves

Set margins per customer, per grid, even per bracket — percent or absolute. The engine applies them on every single quote.

Customer portal

Self-service for your customers

Your customers get instant prices, book shipments and track history in your own customer portal — white-labelled on the Scale plan. They never see buy prices or margins.

Shipments

From quote to delivery

Convert accepted quotes to shipments, track statuses, attach documents and keep billing under control.

Analytics

Know your margin, always

Revenue, cost and margin by customer, carrier and lane — live, not at month-end.

Quote requests

No matching grid? Still quoted.

Your customers can send a quote request even when no rate grid covers the lane. You price it manually in Cargavo — quote, booking and emails follow the same flow. Included in every plan.

How it works

Live in three steps, not three months

No consultants, no data project. If you have your tariffs in Excel, you are one afternoon away.

  1. Build your rate grids

    Set the zones, brackets and cells of each carrier tariff once in a structured grid builder — the engine prices on it for good. From the Growth plan, our team does that set-up for you.

  2. Set your margin rules

    Default margins, per-customer overrides, per-bracket fine-tuning. Percent or absolute, in your currency.

  3. Quote, book, deliver

    Your team — and your customers — get accurate prices in seconds. Convert to shipments and track them to delivery.

Pricing

Plans that grow with your brokerage

Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial. No credit card, no setup fee, cancel anytime.

Starter

For independent brokers getting off spreadsheets.

€49 /month

  • 3 team members
  • Up to 25 customers
  • 200 quotes per month
  • 10 rate grids
  • Build your own rate grids
  • Contextual messaging
  • Customer portal
  • Manual quote requests — no grid needed
  • Email support
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14-day free trial included

Most popular

Growth

For teams that quote all day and want it faster.

€149 /month

  • 10 team members
  • Up to 150 customers
  • 1,500 quotes per month
  • 50 rate grids
  • Everything in Starter
  • Margin analytics
  • Multi-currency
  • Custom surcharge options
  • Assisted onboarding — we set your grids up for you
  • Priority support
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14-day free trial included

Scale

For brokerages that want white-glove onboarding.

€399 /month

  • 30 team members
  • Up to 1,000 customers
  • 10,000 quotes per month
  • 200 rate grids
  • Everything in Growth
  • Cargavo API access
  • White-label customer portal
  • Dedicated support
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14-day free trial included

Prices excl. VAT. Also available in USD.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What is Cargavo?

Cargavo is a transport management system (TMS) built for freight brokers and transport commissionaires. It centralizes your carrier rate grids, applies your margins automatically, and produces accurate buy and sell prices in seconds — plus a customer portal where your customers can quote and book themselves, white-labelled on the Scale plan.

How does the free trial work?

Every plan includes a 14-day free trial with full access to the plan’s features. No credit card is required to start, and you can cancel at any time during the trial without being charged.

Can I reuse my existing carrier tariffs?

Yes. Cargavo supports the four grid models used across road freight — weight-zone, per-pallet, linear-meter brackets and hybrid grids. You rebuild the tariff your carrier already sent you in a structured grid builder: pick the model, declare the zones and brackets, enter the cells once. There is no file to feed the software, and no carrier API or EDI to wait for. From the Growth plan, the Cargavo team does that set-up for you.

Will my customers see my buy prices or margins?

Never. Buy prices, margins and carrier tariffs are strictly separated from the customer portal by design. Your customers only ever see the sell prices you configure.

Which countries and currencies does Cargavo support?

Cargavo works worldwide. The interface is available in English, French, Spanish and German on every plan. Multi-currency pricing — EUR, USD, GBP, CHF, CAD, MAD and PLN, each rate grid carrying its own currency — is included from the Growth plan.

Is my data secure?

Yes. Each organization’s data is strictly isolated in a multi-tenant architecture with server-side access control, hosted on Google Cloud infrastructure. Prices and margins are computed server-side and are never exposed to unauthorized users.

How do I digitize my freight quote requests?

You digitize freight quote requests by giving your customers a portal that captures the request in a structured form and prices it against your own carrier rate grids, instead of an email thread a human has to read. In Cargavo, requests arriving through your customer portal either get an instant price from one of your rate grids, or — when no grid covers the lane — become a manual quote request that follows the same quote, booking and email flow. Every accepted quote (Q-YYYY-NNNN) becomes a tracked shipment (S-YYYY-NNNN).

How do I turn my Excel rate sheets into instant quotes?

You rebuild each carrier tariff as a structured rate grid so a pricing engine applies taxable weight, rounding, fuel surcharge and margin rules automatically. Cargavo covers the four road-freight tariff models — weight_zone (zones × weight brackets), pallet (price per pallet count × zone), mpl_bracket (linear-metre/LDM brackets × zone) and hybrid_weight (a flat rate below a threshold, a per-unit rate above it) — starting from the Excel or CSV sheet the carrier already emails you, which you re-enter once in the grid builder. No carrier API or EDI connection is required.

Do I need an API or EDI connection to add a carrier?

No. A carrier is added by rebuilding its existing rate sheet as a structured grid, which is why regional and niche carriers with no IT department can be quoted alongside the large networks. Cargavo does not connect to carrier APIs or EDI links at all — the rate grid you already negotiated is the integration.

Is Cargavo affordable for a small brokerage?

Cargavo is priced for brokerages of roughly 2 to 25 people: Starter €49/month, Growth €149/month and Scale €399/month, with annual billing worth about two months free. Plans differ by team size, number of customers, quotes per month and number of rate grids, so a two-person brokerage does not pay for enterprise seats it will never use.

What is Cargavo not?

Cargavo is not a load board, a freight exchange, a carrier-network marketplace, a tendering or procurement platform, or a fleet and dispatch system. It is a transport management system for freight brokers and transport commissionaires: rate grids in, buy and sell prices out, with a customer portal on top.

Stop quoting by hand. Start winning freight.

Set up your grids this afternoon and send your first instant quote today.

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