Cargo software from Dahal Tech, a CompTech International company

Air cargo operations, end to end

Kaede runs a whole freight forwarder: air waybills and AWB stock, door-to-door pickups and deliveries, rates for air, sea, road and rail, quotes for your customers, and the team's attendance and payroll. You can ask it about your shipments in plain words.

  • Built to IATA practice
  • Every change recorded
  • English, Nepali and Japanese
A new air waybill, start to finish

Why forwarders switch

Fast entry, smart forms and records you can trust

Six things your team will notice in the first week. Every clip is the real Kaede, recorded with a made-up company.

196countries where addresses fill in as you type
33,732tariff lines behind the HS code lookup
12copies of the IATA air waybill, every one printed
3languages in the app: English, Nepali and Japanese
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Smart form assistance

It finishes your typing, from your own shipments

Start typing the goods and Kaede shows the rest in grey, learned from the air waybills your office made before. Press Tab to take it. HS codes are suggested from what you filed before and from the full tariff, and you confirm the code.

  • Suggestions ranked by your own history and the season
  • HS code lookup in plain words: spelling does not have to be exact
  • Nothing is chosen for you: you confirm every code
Learned from your dataTab to acceptHS lookup
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Address autofill

Any address, filled as you type

Pick the country and start typing. A Japanese postcode fills the prefecture, city and area from Japan's postal directory. A US ZIP code fills the city and state. Anywhere else, start typing the city: Kaede knows 151,254 cities in 196 countries. Paste an address written in Japanese and Kaede even proposes it in romaji.

  • Japan: the postcode fills the prefecture, city and area
  • US: the ZIP code fills the city and state
  • Every other country: pick the city as you type
196 countriesJapan · US · everywhere elseNo outside service
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Cargo insights

Pivot, drill down, and open the shipments behind any number

Cargo Insights cuts your tonnage by airline, route, city or customer, the way a spreadsheet pivot does. Click a figure and the shipments behind it open. Click a bar and every panel filters to it. Real flown legs show on one map.

  • A summary in plain words: what happened and what moved
  • Any two dimensions side by side, out to Excel
  • Saved views for the questions you ask every week
Drill-downLane mapExcel export
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Document import

Drop an invoice. Kaede reads it.

Drop a PDF or a photo of a commercial invoice, even a scanned one. Kaede reads it in your browser and proposes the invoice number, date, countries, totals and goods lines with HS codes. You tick what to keep. Nothing is filled until you press Apply, and undo is one click.

  • Read in your browser, with no outside reading service
  • Scanned values are marked, so you check each one against the paper
  • Also takes the shipper's packing list as Excel or CSV
OCRPDF · photo · Excel · CSVUndo in one click
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Tamper-evident

An executed AWB is locked. Every change is chained.

Once an air waybill is executed, its routing, rating, declared values and parties are locked. A small correction needs a reason and is kept as an amendment. Every change keeps who, when, before and after, chained with SHA-256, so a quiet edit would show.

  • A reason for every amendment or re-open, kept on record
  • Before and after for every field that changed
  • Change History: what changed today, what was deleted, and undo
SHA-256 chainReason requiredBefore and after
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Made to measure

Shape Kaede around how your office works

Each person picks a dashboard for their role, then adds, removes and reorders the cards. The AWB workbench opens the way each desk likes. Checklists for export, import, consolidation, dangerous goods, new customers and month-end billing start from ready workflows that you change to fit.

  • Dashboards suggested for each role, then changed card by card
  • Workbench layouts for entry, follow-up or the full view
  • Task checklists with your own steps and order
Your layoutStarter workflowsPer person

From the enquiry to payday

Run your whole freight forwarding business in one system

Kaede is more than air waybills and rates. It runs the whole office: the quote, the booking, the pickup, the flight, the delivery at the door, the invoice, and the people who do the work.

  1. 01QuoteA quote request or a chat becomes a case, priced from your rate cards
  2. 02BookingThe shipment is booked, with an air waybill from your own stock
  3. 03PickupA pickup order goes to a driver from the dispatch board
  4. 04Air waybillMaster, house or door to door, with its documents and package list
  5. 05Flight and statusStatus updates, and messages to the airline and to partner agents
  6. 06DeliveryDelivered at the door, with cash on delivery collected
  7. 07BillingInvoiced, and sent to CAS360 for the accounts
  8. 08People and paydayDuty board, attendance, leave and payroll for the team

Shipments

  • Master, house and door-to-door AWBs
  • AWB stock and assignment
  • Shipment documents and package lists
  • Status for one AWB or many
  • Incidents, claims and damage

Door to door

  • Dispatch control tower
  • Pickup and delivery orders
  • Delivery fleet and pickup parties
  • Each driver's run
  • Cash on delivery

Sales and pricing

  • Bookings and quote requests
  • Cargo desk cases
  • Chat with your customers
  • Rate cards for air, sea, road and rail
  • Through routes, priced leg by leg

People

  • Employees and teams
  • Duty board and team calendar
  • Hours against activity
  • Leave and the leave register
  • Attendance import
  • Payroll and payslips

Fleet and assets

  • Fleet register
  • Insurance, tax and vehicle papers
  • Servicing and repairs
  • Assets and places

Connected

  • Carrier messages: FWB, FHL and FSU
  • Messages with partner agents
  • Bills sent to CAS360 for the accounts
  • An API for your own systems
  • Email templates

Control

  • Approval routing
  • Custom fields
  • Users, roles and rights
  • Stations, organizations and networks
  • Audit history
  • Sanctions screening

See it with your own work

Tell us your lanes, carriers and how your office runs. We will show you Kaede set up the same way.

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Ask about cargo

Ask your shipments a question

Type a question the way you would ask a colleague. Kaede answers from your own shipment records, with a chart or a table you can take to Excel.

  • Top consignees, busy lanes, monthly shipments, airline share
  • It shows how it read your question, so you can check it
  • Ask where something is, and it takes you there
  • Answered by our own AI, made for cargo. It can run on your own server

AWB workbench

Every air waybill on one screen, and a new one in a minute

The workbench lists your masters, houses and door-to-door bills. Pick one to see it as the waybill reads, update its status, print it, or send it to a partner. A new air waybill or a new customer is one form, filled top to bottom.

  • Filter by master, house, door to door or executed, and search by AWB, shipper or consignee
  • Update the status of one bill, or of many at once
  • The owner, follow-ups and partner messages sit beside the bill
  • A new AWB takes its number from your airline stock. Type the route in one line, like KTM DXB EK2245 04OCT
  • A new customer, with its address and contact person, in one form

The inbox, a search, and a master AWB opened as its waybill.

Five ways in

Every road leads to an air waybill

Start where your work starts. Kaede carries over what it already knows, so nobody types the same details twice.

1
Blank formAir waybill

Start a master, house or door-to-door air waybill from scratch. Master numbers come from the airline's AWB stock.

2
QuoteAir waybill

An accepted quote becomes an air waybill with the goods, pieces, weights, dimensions and route already in. The quote is marked converted.

3
BookingAir waybill

A booking becomes a master, house or door-to-door air waybill, with all five parties, the goods, pieces, weights and route carried over.

4
Commercial invoicePacking listAir waybill

The invoice and the packing list share their goods lines. From the invoice, one click makes a house or door-to-door air waybill with the parties, invoice number and date.

5
Customer or earlier shipmentAir waybill

"New like this" starts from an earlier air waybill, and you tick what carries over. Or pick the shipper, and Kaede offers their recent shipments to fill the rest.

Rates

Rates for air, sea, road and rail

Keep the rates of your airlines, shipping lines, trucking and rail partners in one place. Quote a shipment once and compare every carrier and mode that can move it.

From an airport, seaport, land port or address. Ranked prices with a breakdown, and through routes.

The recordings on this page use a made-up company, Everest Demo Cargo.

Documents

Crisp documents, ready for the airline

Real PDFs from Kaede, drawn as vectors, so they stay sharp at any zoom and on any printer. Open them and look closely.

A Kaede master air waybill, Original 3 for the shipper
IATA master air waybillAll 12 copies in one PDF, from Original 1 for the carrier to the extra copies. Open the PDF
A Kaede cargo label with barcode and QR code, piece 1 of 19
Cargo labelsOne label for each piece, with a barcode and a QR code. This shipment has 19. Open the PDF
A Kaede courier waybill with a barcode, two QR codes and the conditions of carriage, marked PREVIEW
Courier waybillYour own design, from the waybill designer: a barcode, two QR codes and your conditions of carriage. Open the PDF

A closer look

Every corner, in detail

Click any picture to see it full size.

The Kaede letterhead editor, with a preview of the printed page
White label

Your name on every letter. Your sub-agents under one roof.

Design your letterhead once: your name, colours and initials print on every letter and declaration Kaede makes. One Kaede holds several companies, so you can issue air waybills for your sub-agents, and each company keeps its own records and its own letterhead.

  • Nine designs, in your own colours
  • For plain paper, your pre-printed paper, or none
  • Switch company from the account menu
Multi-companyYour branding

From the makers of CAS360 and TravelMan

Kaede comes from CompTech International and its subsidiary Dahal Tech, in Kathmandu. CompTech also makes CAS360, accounting for the web, and TravelMan, used by more than 220 travel agencies.

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Tell us how your cargo office works. We will show you Kaede with your own lanes and carriers, and answer your questions.

Phone: +977 9860274090 · +977 9851032716 · +977 9740262947