Cargo software from Dahal Tech, a CompTech International company

Cargo software for freight forwarders

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.

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

Features

Faster data entry, cargo reports and a full change history

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

Goods descriptions and HS codes from your past AWBs

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

Address entry by postcode or city, for any country

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

Read a scanned invoice into the form

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

Locked AWBs and a tamper-evident change log

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

Dashboards, workbench layouts and checklists for each person

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 questions about your shipments

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

AWB workbench: all your air waybills in one list

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

Five ways to start 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. How a price is worked out

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.

Pricing

How Kaede works out a freight price

The rate quote shows every line of the price, with the sum on each line. Below are the main rules, with real figures from the rate quote. The rates are the demo company's made-up rates.

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Chargeable weight

Air freight is charged on the actual weight or the volume weight, whichever is higher

Large, light boxes take up space on the plane, so the airline charges for the space. Kaede works out the volume weight from the box sizes and uses the higher of the two weights.

Kathmandu to Dubai by air: 4 boxes of 60 × 50 × 50 cm, 80 kg in total

Volume weight: 60 × 50 × 50 cm × 4 boxes ÷ 6,000100 kg
Actual weight80 kg
Chargeable weight (the higher one)100 kg
Freight: 100 kg × USD 4.95 per kgUSD 495.00
Fuel surcharge: 100 kg × USD 0.50USD 50.00
Documentation fee, per shipmentUSD 25.00
TotalUSD 570.00
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Weight breaks

Weight breaks: declaring a little more weight can cost less

The rate per kg drops at set weights, such as 45 kg and 100 kg. If the next weight band costs less in total, Kaede shows it on the air waybill, with the saving. The figures come from the airline's rate card.

Kathmandu to London, Qatar Airways rate card: USD 10.40 per kg up to 45 kg, USD 9.90 per kg from 45 to 100 kg, plus a USD 25 fee

Charged at 44 kg: 44 × 10.40 + 25USD 482.60
Declared at 45.5 kg: 45.5 × 9.90 + 25USD 475.45
Declaring 45.5 kg costs less byUSD 7.15

The same check in the recording: 95 kg costs USD 965.50, 100.5 kg costs USD 865.18.

Also in every quote

  • One search lists the road, air, sea and rail rates for the lane, cheapest first
  • Fuel and security surcharges and fixed fees are added from your surcharge list, each with its own dates
  • If the price is below the minimum charge on the rate card, the minimum charge is used
  • The destination can be a whole country: Kaede tries your routes to each port or airport there
  • A through route, such as road, rail, sea and then road to the door, is priced leg by leg, with one total
  • A new or changed rate card is used in quotes only after it is approved

The rate quote is a screen for your staff. All figures on this page are the demo company's made-up rates.

Documents

Cargo documents and a document store

Print the papers for a shipment from its master AWB, and keep your other documents in folders. Both clips are the real Kaede, recorded with a made-up company.

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Cargo documents

Cargo documents printed from the master AWB

Right-click a master AWB and choose Auxiliary documents. Kaede has 28 documents in eight groups: security declarations, non-DG letters, the IATA dangerous goods and non-dangerous goods forms, certificates of origin and GSP Form A, customs and health declarations, cold chain forms, labels, and letters. Each one is filled from the AWB. You can type over a value for one print; the AWB does not change.

  • A preview of the pages before you print
  • Each printed copy gets a number, such as NDG-2026-000002, and is kept: reprint it exactly, or void it with a reason
  • A QR code on the copy opens a public page that shows the copy is genuine and current
28 documentsNumbered copiesQR check
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Document store

Folders for your documents, with search inside scans

Keep export papers, contracts and certificates in folders. Drop in PDFs, photos, Word and Excel files. Kaede reads the text of a scanned PDF or photo in your browser (the first five pages), so a search finds the words inside it. Each document moves from draft to published, and older versions are kept.

  • Share a document with colleagues or with outside e-mail addresses, with an expiry date
  • Folder access for each person or team: view, edit or manage
  • Attach a file to an AWB, a quote request, an invoice or a task
Search inside scansVersionsSharing with expiry

PDF samples

Air waybills, labels and courier waybills as PDF

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

Screenshots

Click any picture to see it full size.

Kaede lane network map with flown legs coloured by airline
Lane networkReal flown legs on one map, coloured by airline. Click an airport for its shipments.
Kaede pivot of destination airport by airline, by chargeable weight
Pivot tableDestination by airline, by weight. Click any cell for the shipments behind it.
Kaede list of the three shipments behind one pivot figure
The shipments behind a numberOne click from a figure to the air waybills that make it up.
Kaede Outlook: the next four weeks, customers to call, surprises and what moved
OutlookThe next four weeks, customers to call, and what moved last month, from your own shipments.
A close crop of the Kaede air waybill, sharp at high zoom
Zoom as far as you likeThe air waybill is drawn as vectors, so the small print stays sharp.
Kaede letterhead editor showing nine designs, Monogram chosen
Letterhead designsNine designs, from plain to a monogram of your initials.
Kaede courier waybill designer with blocks, barcodes and page settings
Courier waybill designerBuild your own waybill from blocks: barcodes, QR codes, parties and charges.
Kaede building an FWB/17 cargo message with line-by-line checks
Cargo messagesCargo-IMP and Cargo-XML messages built from the air waybill and checked line by line.
Kaede settings: rate cards, zones, surcharges, carriers and ports
Settings in one placeRate cards, zones, surcharges, carriers and ports, each one click away.
The Kaede letterhead editor, with a preview of the printed page
White label

Your letterhead, and several companies in one Kaede

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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