Yes. In this case you typically create time slot bookings schedules for your site(s) and grant access to your partners (carriers, clients, suppliers) so they can book time slots. All details of the booking will be entered by them manually.
Alternatively, you may work with transport orders in which case you upload them into Automated either manually in an Excel file or via our standard interface.
Yes. You may use Automated to communicate your transport orders with your partners (carriers, clients, suppliers) and/or to use them as a basis for time slot booking.
You may upload transport orders into Automated either manually in an Excel file or via our standard interface.
Your data is stored in Europe in Tier IV data centers providing 99.995% uptime per year on a 2N+1 fully redundant infrastructure.
Read more on our Technology and Security.
If you want to use Automated standalone (i.e. without transport orders), it takes about 30 minutes to
- invite your internal users
- create your site(s)
- create and activate your schedule(s)
- invite your partners (carriers, clients, suppliers)
and you are good to go.
If, however, you want to use it with transport orders, set aside some time of your IT team to create the Excel file for upload or build an automatic connection based on our standard interface.
Yes. You may test the application for 30 days for free with all functionalities.
You can register here.
Yes. Information submitted by the site or your partners (carriers, clients, suppliers) can be sent back directly into your ERP/TMS via our standard interface.
Just a couple of things. Please read Getting Started.
Yes.
You may read more here.
99.9%. Our scheduled downtimes related to functionality updates of Automated are typically pushed to the application Saturday nights Central European Time.
You may read more in Security.
Our Customer Support Team is available 24/7/365 via support@freetimeslot.com. Depending on the urgency of the issue, we typically reply to you in three to six hours.
Yes. We do not charge you any fix cost (e.g. for setup or maintenance). You are only charged transactional fees based on the volume of your transactions.
You may read more in Pricing.
The site/shipper decides if they or their partners (carriers, clients, suppliers) pay for the transactions.
You may read more in Pricing.
We charge related to transactions, i.e. based on the volume of time slot bookings or transport orders.
You may read more in Pricing.
You can use Automated just by accepting our Terms when registering or alternatively we can sign a contract.
You may find our contract draft here.
