Nobody checks the freight invoice against the contract
The engine rates each shipment independently from the contract in force on the day it moved, and shows you what the invoice should have said next to what it did say.
Shippers & in-house logistics teams
You negotiated a rate. This checks you were charged it.
An importer’s freight spend is large, recurring and almost never audited line by line — because doing it properly means reconstructing the rate from a contract nobody has time to read. This is software for exactly that job.
Six problems
All of them are record-keeping problems
None of these is caused by the accounting being wrong. They are caused by the working around it living in workbooks, inboxes and the heads of people who move on.
Landed cost is a spreadsheet somebody maintains
Landed cost is computed on the shipment as its components arrive, each carrying its source, its currency and the rate it was converted at. Nothing is retyped.
Duty is a number the broker supplies
Duty is computed head by head with the notification reference on each line, and the assessable value derivation is shown rather than assumed.
Detention is discovered on the invoice
Free time accrues on the gate event’s own timestamp, and a container approaching expiry raises an exception while somebody can still act on it.
What an audit actually finds
Variances, not accusations
Most of what an audit surfaces is a contract being applied wrongly, not a carrier behaving badly.
- Most of what an invoice audit surfaces is not a carrier behaving badly. It is a surcharge applied at last quarter’s rate, a terminal charge billed per container where the contract says per bill of lading, a minimum applied where the shipment was over it, or a currency converted on a date nobody agreed on.
- Which is why the output is a variance with the contract line beside it rather than a claim. Every disputed line shows what was expected, where that expectation came from, and what was billed instead — so the conversation with the carrier starts from a document rather than from a disagreement.
What it does not do
It does not negotiate, book or file
It does not go to market for rates, it does not place bookings on your behalf, and it does not file your declarations — that stays with your forwarder or your broker, who is licensed for it. What it does is hold the shipment file, compute what things should cost, and make every figure traceable. If your forwarder is doing a good job, this proves it. That is a legitimate outcome and we would rather say so than imply otherwise.
Tell us what your last audit actually asked for
The first fortnight of questions is the most useful thing you can describe, because almost all of it is something your team already knew and did not keep in a form anybody else could read.
Get in touch
Talk to the people building it
No chatbot and no ticket queue. Tell us what your operation actually looks like — the modes you move, whether you clear your own customs, and roughly how many shipments a month — and someone who works on the software will reply.
info@legosphere.com