Getting Started with Ocean Export Forwarding
Workflow of Ocean Export Forwarding

Creating Ocean Export Order - Optional
When to Create an Order first?
If there is some time to receive the shipping line booking, to ensure you are not losing a track of the pending confirmed order from customer create a customer order in Shipmnts.
We recommend going via this process if you are interested in tracking your Turn Around Time for Sharing Booking confimation to customer
- Creating and Updating Ocean Export FCL Order
- Creating and Updating Ocean Export LCL Order
Directly Creating an Ocean Export Shipment (Job)
When can you skip order creation and directly start your flow from Shipment (Job) Creation?
In case you already have confirmed booking from Shipping line you can directly start by Creating a Shipment
Understanding Types of Jobs in Shipmnts
- Direct - Select this category if you have a direct BL with Shipping line. i.e you are not issuing HBL
- Back to Back - Select this category if you are issuing your own HBL as well against shipping line BL
- House - Select this category for creating individual consol house jobs, which can be later combined into a consolidated Shipment (you can read more about Consolidation here)