Intelligence
Know what the order needs before the quote goes out.
Before a quote is sent, Intelligence reads the order's own facts — where it's going, how it travels, what it's sold under — and works out what has to be true for it to clear, and what it will actually cost to land.
Expodite Intelligence evaluates an order's destination, transport mode, Incoterm, payment terms and HS chapter against a rule set to determine the documents it requires, and prices the quote on landed cost at an exchange rate locked when the quote is submitted — not worked out after the deal is done.
Intelligence
A quote made on habit, not on the order's own facts.
A destination changes, a buyer asks for a different Incoterm, a product carries wooden packaging into a country that fumigates it — and the document list, and the margin, should change with it. Worked from memory or a shared spreadsheet, they usually don't, until Customs or the bank finds out first.
What it does
Reads the order, not a checklist.
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Document rules by context
A rule engine evaluates the destination, transport mode, Incoterm, payment terms, HS chapter, product flags such as fumigation or dual-use, and buyer market — layered from system rules down to an order's own manual additions — to produce the document set an order actually requires.
02
Landed-cost quoting
A quote's margin is worked from landed cost, not the invoice value alone, at an exchange rate locked at submission — so the number a customer sees doesn't drift with the market between quote and acceptance.
03
Buyer and market context
Buyer records carry the market tags and export profile — including whether a letter of credit is required — that feed the same rule engine, so a returning buyer's order starts from what's already known about them.
04
Reference data an organisation owns
Carriers, freight forwarders, ports, country groups and document types are organisation-level master data: added, edited and reused across every quote and order, not re-typed each time.
What changes
The document list is a fact, not a guess.
Fewer discovered requirements
A missing certificate or a wrong Incoterm surfaces on the quote, not at the port.
A margin that holds
Landed cost and a locked rate mean the number quoted is the number the order still makes at delivery.
Rules an organisation can extend
System rules are a floor. An organisation adds its own on top, without touching the ones every account shares.
Questions
Intelligence, answered plainly
- Does Expodite maintain a tariff database?
- No. Expodite prices landed cost from the rates and costs an organisation enters and the FX rate it locks; it does not hold or publish customs tariff schedules.
- Does this replace checking with a customs broker?
- No. It sets an informed starting point from the order's own facts; confirming a classification or a preferential rate with a broker or GOEIC remains the exporter's own step.
- Can an organisation add its own document rules?
- Yes. Organisation-level rules, and rules on a specific product, sit on top of the system catalog, and can also suppress a system rule that doesn't apply to them.
See Intelligence on an order like yours.
Tell us what you export and where, and we'll show the rule engine against a real destination.