FQS is where your salespeople build quotes, send them, and see what happened to them. It is not a TMS and it does not touch operations.
| Ocean freight | 3,850.00 |
| Terminal handling, origin | 485.00 |
| Documentation | 75.00 |
| Customs clearance | 600.00 |
| Total USD | 5,010.00 |
Four things, properly, instead of forty things badly.
Pick the lane, pull your carrier rates, add charges, set your margin. Chargeable weight, CBM, per-container and per-shipment charges are worked out for you. Quote in your customer's currency with the FX rate frozen the moment you send.
A PDF with your logo, your color and your terms. Conditions on page two. It looks like a document your company produced, because it is.
Your carrier contracts, with validity dates, so an expired rate stops appearing in quotes instead of quietly pricing one wrong. Upload a carrier's rate sheet and FIS Intelligence reads it. You review what it found before anything is saved.
Mark it won or lost. See quote count, win rate, revenue and margin by lane, by office and by person, plus the quotes sitting past their validity with no outcome recorded.
The awkward shipments are the ones that break a spreadsheet. These are handled, not worked around.
One 20'GP and one 40'HC on the same quote, priced separately and totaled together. Reefers alongside dry boxes. No second quote, no manual sum.
Non-stackable, temperature-controlled, and dangerous goods with UN number, IMO class, packing group and proper shipping name, recorded on the quote and printed on the PDF.
Per container, per shipment, per kilo, per CBM or flat. FQS knows which is which and works out chargeable weight and CBM for you.
Carrier rates carry validity dates and rate bands. An expired band contributes nothing rather than quietly pricing a quote off last quarter's number.
A quote sitting unanswered is not a record. It is an open item, and it is the first thing a busy salesperson forgets. The timing is set by your company, not by whoever remembers.
Quotes going cold. Anything still pending after a week, listed. Not a report you have to run. It is on the screen when you open FQS.
Clients going quiet. A customer you have not quoted in two months, surfaced before you notice they have stopped calling.
The lane you lost before. Start quoting a client on a lane they turned you down on in the last three months, and FQS shows you that quote: what you asked, when, and the reason it was lost. Before you price the new one.
Nobody else does that last one. It came from losing the same lane twice at the same price.
An operations system. FQS does not book, track shipments or file customs. It stops where the quote ends and the shipment begins.
If you already run a TMS and hate quoting inside it, that is the gap this fills.
A forwarder's carrier contracts are the most commercially sensitive thing they own. So this is worth being specific about rather than reassuring about.
No other forwarder can see your data. Each company on FQS is isolated at the database level, on every query, rather than by application code that could be bypassed. Your rates, clients and quotes are not visible to another customer under any circumstance.
We do not aggregate, benchmark or resell your rates. Your buying power is not an input to anyone else's pricing, and there is no product here that depends on it.
Rate sheets are read, not kept. When you upload a carrier's rate sheet, FIS Intelligence extracts the rates into your rate desk. The document itself is not retained by FIS afterwards.
One thing is deliberately shared: when FQS shows a market range for a public lane, say Shanghai to Los Angeles in a 40HC, that lookup is cached across customers. It holds a port pair, a mode and a range. No quote, no client, no user, nothing you own.
Everything included. No feature tiers, no quote limits. Pricing varies by region. Tell us where you are based.
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