Freight Settlement
Vendor Bills & Carrier Invoices
Capture and organize every carrier and vendor payable
Ingest carrier invoices and vendor bills against shipments so payables teams work from matched freight costs, not disconnected PDFs.
One
Payable inbox
Shipment
Cost linkage
Lower
Duplicate risk
The challenge
Why this breaks without a TMS
Carrier invoices arrive in many formats and often lack shipment linkage, forcing AP to chase ops for context before payment.
The ZingTMS approach
How we solve it
ZingTMS registers vendor bills against trips and shipments, normalizes charge lines, and queues them for audit, approval, and payment.
What you can do
Vendor Bills & Carrier Invoices is designed for daily freight operations - not slideware checklists.
Capture carrier invoices and LSP vendor bills by shipment or trip
Normalize freight, fuel, and accessorial charge lines
Match bills to expected costs from rating and contracts
Store invoice images and EDI payloads with the payable
Route bills through review and approval queues
Hand off approved bills to freight audit and ERP posting
Business benefits
Outcomes procurement, ops, and finance leaders use to justify the platform.
- Centralize carrier invoices in one payable workspace
- Link every bill to the operational shipment record
- Standardize charge lines for audit and ERP posting
- Reduce lost invoices and duplicate payment risk
Typical use cases
Shippers consolidating multi-carrier invoice intake
Forwarders managing overseas agent and carrier payables
3PLs reconciling subcontracted hauler invoices to customer jobs
See Vendor Bills & Carrier Invoices on your freight flows
We will walk through configuration, integrations, and the operating model that fits your team.
Frequently asked questions
Straight answers for operations, IT, and finance evaluators.
Can bills be imported electronically?+
Yes. Carrier invoices can enter via EDI, API, portal upload, or manual entry into the same payable model.
What if a bill covers multiple shipments?+
Bills can allocate charges across shipments or loads while retaining the original vendor invoice reference.
Are non-freight vendor costs supported?+
Related logistics vendor bills can be captured and attributed to shipments or cost centers alongside carrier freight.
Related capabilities
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Accounting & ERP Posting
Post approved freight documents to the general ledger cleanly
View capabilityReady to modernize this workflow?
Vendor Bills & Carrier Invoices runs as part of the full ZingTMS platform - white-label, multi-tenant, and integration-ready.