Contflow

Track and Manage Your ISO Containers with Contflow

Contflow is a comprehensive application designed to streamline the management of your ISO containers. It enables you to track all container events, from receipt (Gate In) and dispatch (Gate Out) to sales, purchases, and rental terminations. The system meticulously records all associated income (services) and expenses, providing a complete financial overview of each event.

Contflow provides the following key functions:

Purchase and sale of containers
Container rental management
Genset rental management
Container arrival at depot (Gate-In)
Container departure from depot (Gate-Out)
Calculation of container and cargo warehouse storage fees
Registration of ocean, road, railway, and air transportation
Recording revenue and expenses in any currency
Loading cargo into containers (stuffing)
Unloading cargo from containers (de-stuffing)

Contflow: Inland Container Management Software — Efficiently manage your container operations.

Detailed Description:

Contflow is specifically designed to meticulously track containers within container yards and the hinterland. It provides a comprehensive record of all container events, including receipt, dispatch, purchase, sale, repairs, and rentals. This ensures you have a complete historical overview of every action performed on a container.

One of Contflow's key features is its automatic container storage calculation. Manually calculating storage fees can be incredibly time-consuming, especially with numerous container movements and varying sizes. Contflow eliminates these complexities, providing quick and accurate storage calculations based on various customizable rates.

The application seamlessly integrates container event tracking with robust financial management. Its powerful financial module allows you to meticulously record income and expenses, generate certificates for executed tasks, and issue invoices. You can also easily register bank payments for both issued and received invoices.

Beyond core tracking, Contflow enables you to store any associated documents, such as scans, files, and images, directly linked to a specific counterparty.

Contflow is an ideal solution for a wide range of businesses in the logistics and shipping industry, including container terminals, depots, yards, container operators, freight forwarders, and port forwarding agencies.

For example, if your company leases or purchases containers and then rents them out, perhaps transporting them inland (hinterland) before a sale, Contflow can effortlessly manage this entire process. All container locations can be accurately tracked as storage points, making the entire scheme easily reproducible within the application.

Crucially, the application precisely calculates the profit (income) generated from each container's use. You will always have access to an exact and up-to-date profit figure for every container in your fleet.

Container Transportation Management — Track all your container movements.

Container Reference Transportation — Detailed transportation records.

Container Revenue Overview — Comprehensive revenue tracking.

Container Depot Operations — Visualize your depot operations.

The application allows you to:

Perform comprehensive container inventory.
Manage invoicing efficiently.
Record stuffing and de-stuffing operations.
Accurately track container rentals.
Handle purchase and sale accounting for containers.
Manage cost accounting for container repairs.
Monitor containers in transit.
Efficiently register container orders.
Calculate container storage days at the yard.
Quickly access information on container availability at yards/hinterland.
Instantly review a container's complete history (Gate In/Out, rental, purchase/sale, repair, etc.).
Rapidly and accurately calculate container storage fees for any period using client-specific rates.
Quickly obtain final financial data for services provided over any period.
Calculate the profit (income) generated from container usage.
Print acceptance certificates.

Container Destuffing in Warehousing — Efficient cargo handling.

Main Features:

CONTAINER EVENTS:

Comprehensive event tracking: Receipt (Gate In), Dispatch (Gate Out), Delivery, Selling, Purchase, Rental, Repairs, and more.
Detailed accounting for road transportation of containers.
Efficient approval processes for container orders.
Recording of container loading, unloading, lifting, and other handling operations.
Complete historical records of all container movements.
Tracking of container arrivals at the yard.
Tracking of container departures from the yard.
Management of cargo warehousing.
Precise tracking of container laden (stuffing) or unladen positions.

Container Receipt (Gate In) Information — Detailed information upon container receipt.

CONTAINER MANAGEMENT:

Real-time availability of containers at the container yard.
Quick search functionality for all container-related events.
Robust container number control and validation.
Complete historical log of all container operations.
Comprehensive history of container storage.
Easy modification of container status (e.g., ownership change).
Clear identification of the container owner.
Accurate tracking of container presence at yards on any given date.
Control and validation of container prefixes and numbers.
Integrated haulage tracking.
Cargo Worthy Condition (CWC) tracking: Records certificates issued by surveyors confirming suitability for transportation under TIT / UIC / CSC standards.
Management of Dangerous Goods (DG Cargo) or hazardous goods.
Recording of Year of Manufacture (YOM).
Validation of valid container prefixes.
Tracking of Wind and Water Tight (WWT) repair criteria.
Information on CSC plates found on every working shipping container.

Container Receipt Records — Manage all your container receipts.

FINANCE:

Comprehensive accounting for container purchases and sales.
Precise cost accounting for each container.
Detailed expense accounting, including re-expenditure as a service (income).
Accurate calculation of profit from container utilization.
Automated calculation of container storage fees.
Thorough accounting for container leases.
Cost accounting for container trucking services (transportation, crane operations, loading).
Daily cost accounting for container storage at the yard.
Automatic calculation of container storage costs at the depot.
Calculation of free days for container storage.
Full invoicing capabilities (outgoing and incoming).
Detailed revenue and expense tracking.
Multi-currency support for all financial transactions.
Management of rates, quotes, and tariffs.

Outgoing Invoices — Generate and manage outgoing invoices.

CATALOGS:

Containers: Detailed container inventory and specifications.
Counterparties: Management of Shippers, Sea Lines, Owners, Consignees, Carriers, Exporters, Importers, Freight Forwarders, and Customs.
Contracts: Management of both outgoing and incoming contracts.
Rates for container storage: Customizable storage rates.
Rates for services (revenue): Define rates for various services provided.
Core Data: Centralized management of Counterparties, Sea Lines, Routes, Trucks, Revenue categories, and Expense categories.

Frequently Asked Questions

How to get started with the application?

Contact us with a request for the application. To demonstrate the work of the application, we will install the application together and show how to use it. The application will stay on your computer. You can use the application to know more about its capabilities. Further, to work with the application, you will need to buy it.

How much does the application cost?

The price of the application depends on the complexity of your workflow process and is calculated for each case.

How much does application maintenance cost?

We produce code so that everything works for years without problems. Therefore, minor problems can be fixed for free. If you need to add new functionality to the application, this usually happens on the basis of a new contract for upgrading the application. The price of all upgrades is subject to negotiation with the customer.

How much will it cost to tune the application for our requirements?

If you need to add new functionality to the application, this usually happens on the basis of a new contract for upgrading the application. The price of all upgrades is subject to negotiation with the customer.

What is the installation and implementation of the application?

It happens as follows: the customer becomes aware of the capabilities of the application. If the application is ready to use, then its working version is installed and work begins in the application. If some revision is required, such revision is carried out, for example, for a month or two and after that the application is ready to work. In the process, the application is still being improved and polished to become well-fledged.