No invoice paid that breaks the rules.
Freightgate pre-audits every freight invoice against the contract before it's paid — matching billed charges to the rate you agreed to, validating accessorials, and holding variances for review. Overbilling gets caught at the door, not discovered three quarters later.
Invoices get reconciled after the fact.
When the audit happens weeks after payment, overbilling has already cleared. A wrong rate here, an unagreed accessorial there — small variances slip through one invoice at a time and become real money across thousands.
Pre-audit against the contract, before payment.
Freightgate matches every invoice to the rate you actually agreed to before it's paid. Charges that don't line up are flagged and held for review, so the variance is recovered at the door instead of chased down later.
From invoice received to invoice paid, in four steps.
The same checks run on every invoice, automatically, so only charges that match the contract reach payment.
Receive invoice
Carrier and forwarder invoices arrive by EDI, API, or upload and land in one audit queue, ready to check.
Match to contract
Every line is checked against the agreed rate and accessorial rules, so billed charges meet what you negotiated.
Hold variances
Anything that doesn't line up is flagged and held for review, with the contract rate shown alongside it.
Approve & pay
Matched invoices move straight through to payment, coded and ready for the GL, with exceptions left for a human.
What audit & payment automates.
Pre-audit vs. contract
Every line on the invoice is checked against the agreed rate before payment, so what gets billed matches what you negotiated.
Variance & dispute handling
Mismatches are surfaced and held for review with the contract rate alongside, so disputes are resolved on evidence, not back-and-forth.
Accessorial validation
Fuel, congestion, and accessorial charges are checked against the rules you set, so only the surcharges you agreed to clear.
Dispute workflow
Held variances route to the right owner with the contract evidence attached, so each dispute is tracked from flag to resolution.
Accrual & GL coding
Approved charges are coded to the right account and cost center and posted as accruals, so finance closes the period on clean numbers.
Approve & pay
Matched invoices move straight through to payment; only the exceptions ask for a human, so the queue stays small and clean.
See the variance caught, before the payment.
Freightgate lines the invoice up against the contract, prices the surcharges against your rules, and holds anything that doesn't match — so the overbilled amount is recovered before it ever leaves the account.
How automated rate decisions feed the auditThe same invoice, run two ways.
- Invoices are paid first and reconciled weeks later.
- Overbilling clears the account before anyone catches it.
- Unagreed accessorials slip through one line at a time.
- Disputes drag on without the contract as evidence.
- Every invoice is matched to contract before it's paid.
- Variances are held at the door, not chased down later.
- Only the accessorials you agreed to ever clear.
- Disputes resolve on the contract, with GL coding ready.
Built for the scale global supply chains run at.
Each invoice is checked line by line before it enters the payment run, not after.
Billed charges and accessorials are matched against the rate you actually agreed to.
Anything off-contract is held for review at the door, so the variance is recovered before it clears.
Integrates, it doesn't replace.
Freightgate sits above the ERP, TMS, and carriers you already run and audits invoices across them. Two decades of integrations mean most of your carriers send invoices straight in, and approved charges post back to your books.
Live in weeks, not quarters.
Connect carrier invoice feeds by EDI and API, map your account and cost-center codes once, and the audit queue starts running. Carriers pay nothing to serve you, and delivery is collaborative from kickoff to go-live.
“We view Freightgate as a strategic technology partner. The net result of the relationship is a competitive advantage in the marketplace.” Nestlé Waters North America
What buyers ask first.
What does pre-audit actually check?
Every line on the invoice is matched against the contract rate and your accessorial rules before payment. Charges that line up move through; anything that doesn't is held for review with the agreed rate shown alongside it.
What happens when an invoice doesn't match the contract?
The variance is flagged and held before payment, not after. The invoice routes into the dispute workflow with the contract evidence attached, so it's resolved at the door instead of chased down a quarter later.
Does it replace our TMS or ERP?
No. Freightgate sits above the systems you already run and audits invoices across them through EDI, API, and web services. Approved charges post back with GL coding; it does not rip and replace.
How does it handle accruals and GL coding?
Approved charges are coded to the right account and cost center and posted as accruals, so finance closes the period on numbers that already match the contract.
How does it connect to rate management?
The applied rate from Rate Management carries straight into the audit, so every invoice is matched against the same contract rate that was applied automatically at booking.
See pre-audit in action — on your own invoices.
Bring one invoice and the contract behind it. We'll show you the control layer matching them before a single payment clears.