Quoting automation for freight forwarders

Every enquiry answered
in minutes.

WharfDesk reads incoming enquiries, finds the right rates and local charges, and drafts the quotation for your team to approve.

Sea, air and road, all quoted in one place. Your desk keeps final approval.
Two weeks working alongside your pricing desk, and your customers notice nothing.
235 enquiriescaptured last month, none lost
Under 2 minutesfrom enquiry to priced draft
Live in Lagosin production with a forwarding house today
The problem

Slow quotes lose shipments.

Most pricing desks take thirty minutes to two hours on an enquiry, between phone calls, portals and rate sheets. Some enquiries never get answered at all. Every one of those is revenue handed to a faster competitor.

Proven in production

Running live today.

In production with an established Lagos forwarding house. Real traffic, real quotations, from day one.

235

enquiries in the pilot month. Every one captured and tracked; none lost.

< 2 min

from enquiry to a priced draft, including cargo details read out of packing lists and forwarded threads.

Live

carrier pricing: CMA CGM connected today; Lufthansa and Air France-KLM in progress. Contracts stay in your name.

Container ship at sea

Sea

FCL and LCL, contract and spot. 20ft and 40ft rates from your own carrier agreements, matched to the lane the customer actually asked for.

Cargo freighter loading on the tarmac

Air

Per-kilo weight breaks and minimums, the way airlines actually price. Airline connections bring contracted rates straight to your desk.

Haulage truck at dusk

Road

Haulage from the port terminals to anywhere in the country, priced from your own tariff, on the same quotation as the sea or air leg.

How it works

Four steps, and your team stays in charge of the last one.

1
Reads every enquiry

Connected to your enquiry mailbox. Origin, destination, cargo, weight, container type; nothing sits unread.

2
Prices it instantly

Your rate sheets, your contracts, live carrier connections. Anything unclear is held for a person, never guessed.

3
Drafts the quotation

A complete, branded quotation with your local charges and terms, ready in minutes.

4
Your desk approves

Nothing reaches your customer without your approval. Every decision logged and auditable.

See it in action

The pricing desk, at a glance.

Every enquiry captured, priced and queued for approval. Screenshots from the live system, shown here with demonstration data.

app.wharfdesk.com/rfqs
WharfDesk enquiry list showing captured RFQs with routes, modes, draft quotes and status
Every enquiry, one desk. Captured from your mailbox, classified by mode, priced, and tracked from first read to sent quotation.
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WharfDesk enquiry detail showing extracted shipment fields and a draft quotation ready for approval
From email to draft quotation. Shipment details read out of the enquiry, priced from your rates with your markup, ready for your approval.
The cost of slow quoting

What is it costing your desk today?

Rough numbers are fine. Adjust these to match your desk and watch the estimate change.

Estimates only. We assume a 173-hour working month, and that desks answering by hand miss 10 to 20 percent of enquiries; we use 15. The test run replaces every one of these guesses with your desk's measured numbers.

120 hours
of desk time spent pricing enquiries, every month
₦173,000
of payroll going into manual quoting, every month
about 18
enquiries likely going unanswered, every month
Priced by WharfDesk, the same month takes 4 hours of your desk's time, and nothing goes unanswered. Your team still approves every quote.
Zero-risk start

In two weeks, see what your desk is missing.

How many enquiries reached your desk last month?

How fast were they priced?

How many never got an answer at all?

Most forwarders cannot say for sure. The two-week test run shows you, without changing the way your team works.

One email-forwarding rule from your IT, fifteen minutes, one time. Your team keeps quoting exactly as it does today while WharfDesk works quietly alongside them, capturing and pricing every enquiry.

At the end of the two weeks you get a clear report:

  • how many enquiries came in
  • how fast each one could have been priced
  • how many were never answered
  • where you are losing business

No more guesswork. Try it, see your results, then decide, with your own business data in front of you.

The test run has a small one-time fee. If you continue after the two weeks, that fee comes off your setup cost in full.

What does your desk quote?

We reply within 24 hours from wharfdesk@eromlabs.com. Prefer email? Write to that address directly; both reach the same desk.

Your rates stay yours

Never shared with anyone, including other forwarders. Carrier subscriptions stay contracted in your own name.

Securely hosted

Enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure, encrypted at rest and in transit, backed up daily.

Every approval logged

Who approved what, when, and at which price: an audit trail your management can stand behind.

Stop losing shipments to slow quotes.

Two weeks alongside your pricing desk. Your customers notice nothing. Your own numbers, then your decision.

Start the two-week test run Contact: wharfdesk@eromlabs.com · we reply within 24 hours, and you can be live on your enquiries the day after

Behind WharfDesk - WharfDesk is built and operated by EromLabs Technologies Nigeria Limited (RC 9600803). The system was developed alongside, and runs in live production with, an established Lagos forwarding house, on secure, enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure.