Procurement & Rating
Accessorials & Surcharges
Price extras and fuel with rules, not tribal knowledge
Configure detention, layover, liftgate, residential, fuel, and other accessorials with calculation rules that apply at quote and settlement time.
Standard
Charge catalog
Less
Invoice leakage
Clearer
Dispute defense
The challenge
Why this breaks without a TMS
Accessorials are applied inconsistently - sometimes forgotten on the quote, sometimes disputed on the invoice - creating leakage and customer friction.
The ZingTMS approach
How we solve it
ZingTMS models accessorial and surcharge catalogs with triggers, rates, and approval paths so pricing and audit use the same definitions.
What you can do
Accessorials & Surcharges is designed for daily freight operations - not slideware checklists.
Maintain accessorial catalogs for buy and sell sides
Define calculation methods (flat, hourly, percentage, per unit)
Apply fuel surcharge tables and indexes by effective date
Trigger charges from shipment attributes or exception events
Require approval workflows for high-value accessorials
Pass charged accessorials into invoicing and carrier pay
Business benefits
Outcomes procurement, ops, and finance leaders use to justify the platform.
- Capture revenue and cost for non-linehaul events
- Standardize fuel and surcharge logic across lanes
- Reduce short-pay disputes with clear charge definitions
- Let field exceptions map to billable accessorial codes
Typical use cases
Retail deliveries with liftgate, inside, and appointment fees
Fleet networks recovering detention and layover systematically
Forwarders applying fuel and security surcharges by mode
See Accessorials & Surcharges 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 accessorials differ by customer or carrier?+
Yes. Rules can be scoped to contracts, customers, carriers, or lane programs.
How does detention get captured?+
Detention can be configured as an accessorial and tied to exception or dwell signals from execution and visibility.
Are fuel surcharges versioned?+
Fuel tables support effective dating so historical invoices retain the surcharge that applied at quote or ship date.
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Accessorials & Surcharges runs as part of the full ZingTMS platform - white-label, multi-tenant, and integration-ready.