A Built for NetSuite validated SuiteApp for logistics, not a customization
Freightgate installs against your NetSuite account as a validated hybrid SuiteApp, which means it has passed Oracle NetSuite's review for integration standards rather than running as unsupported custom code.
Most logistics add-ons for NetSuite are either a connector that syncs records in both directions or a customization that a partner wrote once. Both work until something changes. Freightgate's NetSuite TMS integration is a Built for NetSuite validated hybrid SuiteApp: reviewed by Oracle NetSuite against its integration standards, listed on SuiteApp.com, and installed against your account rather than bolted onto it.
A customization is a liability with a release date.
A custom integration written for your account is only as current as the last person who touched it. When NetSuite releases an update, the script that posts the freight rate to the order is yours to test, and the partner who wrote it may have moved on. A connector that mirrors records between two systems has the opposite problem: it moves data but makes no decisions, so the rate, the routing rule, and the compliance check still happen somewhere else.
Validation is Oracle NetSuite's answer to the first problem. The SuiteApp architecture is Freightgate's answer to the second.
Three ways to connect logistics to NetSuite.
| Dimension | Custom integration | Sync connector | Freightgate SuiteApp |
|---|---|---|---|
| REVIEWED BY | The partner who wrote it | The vendor | Oracle NetSuite, Built for NetSuite validation |
| WHERE DECISIONS HAPPEN | In the script, if at all | Outside NetSuite | Against the NetSuite record |
| INSTALLATION | Custom scripts in your account | Separate app plus a connector | Installed SuiteApp against your account |
| WHAT IT CARRIES | Whatever was scripted | Record fields, mirrored | Rates, routing, compliance, landed cost, shipment status |
What validation means in practice.
Validated against NetSuite's integration standards
Built for NetSuite is Oracle NetSuite's review of a SuiteApp against its integration standards. Freightgate has passed it.
Installs against your account
Installed as a SuiteApp rather than written into your account as custom scripts, so the integration is maintained as a product rather than as a project.
Hybrid architecture
The SuiteApp lives in NetSuite and connects outward to Freightgate's cloud, where the rate library, routing engine, and compliance modules run. The decision lands on the NetSuite record. The heavy lifting does not run inside your account.
Works on the records your team already uses
Rates, routing, compliance checks, and shipment status appear against the sales order, purchase order, item fulfillment, and vendor bill. Nobody leaves the ERP to make a freight decision.
Connected outward to the carrier network
53,000+ truckers, 120+ ocean carriers and NVOs, 115+ airlines, and 65+ rail carriers, through EDI, API, and web services, from an integration library built since 1994.
From install to a governed order.
Install the SuiteApp
Installed against your NetSuite account from the validated listing.
Connect contracts and carriers
Rates loaded by Excel, EDI, or API. Carriers connected from the existing library.
Set the rules
Routing rules, compliance policy, and approval thresholds defined once.
Run on the order
Rates, routing, compliance, landed cost, and shipment status applied against the NetSuite records. See what a NetSuite TMS implementation actually takes.
“Freightgate got all our phase 1 carriers integrated, all warehouse setup and the ERP connection nailed in 3 weeks.” Bedgear
What NetSuite teams ask first.
What does Built for NetSuite mean?
It is Oracle NetSuite's validation program for SuiteApps. A validated SuiteApp has been reviewed against NetSuite's integration standards. Freightgate for NetSuite has passed that review.
What is a hybrid SuiteApp?
A SuiteApp with a component installed in NetSuite and a component that runs outside it. Freightgate's rate library, routing engine, and compliance modules run in the Freightgate cloud, and the results are applied against the NetSuite record.
Is it listed on SuiteApp.com?
Yes. Freightgate for NetSuite is listed on SuiteApp.com, Oracle NetSuite's directory of SuiteApps.
Is this a customization?
No. A customization is custom code written into your account and maintained by whoever wrote it. The SuiteApp is installed against your account and maintained as a product by Freightgate.
Which NetSuite records does it work with?
The sales order, purchase order, item fulfillment, and vendor bill. Rates, routing, compliance checks, landed cost, and shipment status appear against those records.
How is it different from a shipping app?
A shipping app rates parcels and prints labels. Freightgate applies contract rates, routing rules, and compliance across ocean, air, land, and rail, and governs the decision before the shipment moves. See NetSuite TMS vs shipping app.
How long does implementation take?
It depends on the number of carriers and warehouses in scope. As a reference point, Bedgear reported that Freightgate integrated all phase one carriers, warehouse setup, and the ERP connection in three weeks.
Pairs well with
See the SuiteApp on your own account.
Bring one purchase order and one lane. We will show you the validated SuiteApp applying the rate, the rule, and the compliance check on the NetSuite record.