Liner agency softwareRun the line's agency, from booking to statement.
Sailix is liner agency software for agents that represent shipping lines: line profiles, tariffs, bookings, bills of lading, collections and a monthly statement of account per principal.
- Monthly, per principal
- SOA
- Slab tariffs by line and port
- D&D
Overview
What Sailix liner agency software covers
Sailix liner agency software is shipping agency software for companies that represent shipping lines in a port or country. Each principal line is set up in Line Management with its agency agreement, commission rows and a port-wise cost matrix that can be imported from Excel. The agency then handles the line's bookings, release orders, bills of lading, arrival notices and delivery orders, records invoices and receipts against each job, and builds a statement of account per principal month by month.
Charges, documents and settlement share one set of records. Tariff items carry SAC codes and sit in tax service groups for GST, VAT or TDS, so each charge is taxed by what it is. Detention and demurrage slab profiles by line and port price the days when a delivery order is issued or extended. The agent SOA is built from the invoices and entries already in Sailix, with annexures for import, export, transshipment, detention and container damage cost, and downloads as an Excel workbook.
Principals
Every principal, properly set up.
Each line you represent carries its own costs, tariffs and free-time rules, so its jobs are priced and charged its way.
Line management
A profile for each shipping line, with its cost matrix imported from Excel.
Tariff items
The tariff items that price every local charge on a job.
Detention and demurrage profiles
Slab tariffs set by line and by port.
Slots and schedules
Slot operator mapping per line and vessel voyage schedules.
Operations
Work the line's cargo, both ways.
Export and import run on the same job records, so documents and charges follow from what the desk already entered.
Bookings and release
Liner bookings and release orders issued against them.
Bills of lading
Draft, customer confirmation, issue and surrender.
Import delivery
Arrival notices and delivery orders, with detention calculated on extension.
Settlement
Settle with the principal.
What was collected and what is owed is kept per line, and reported back to it.
Agent statement of account
A monthly statement per principal with carry-forward, settlement and exchange rates.
Local collections
Export and import invoices and receipts recorded against each job.
Liner portal
The principal signs in to see its containers, release orders and pending approvals.
Reports
What the principal asks for.
Agency reports come from the same jobs and containers the desk works on.
- Agent SOA
- SOA with tax
- Booking register
- Voyage register
- Vessel voyage financial status
- Container stock
- Empty stock position
- Load and discharge performance
Features
Every feature in this area.
NVOCC export, NVOCC import, Agency and tariffs: each feature has its own page with what it does, how it works and common questions.
- Inquiry managementCapture each export inquiry with customer, route, containers and sales owner, and follow it into negotiation and quotation.
- Container rate negotiationSend a rate request to a line for a carrier owned inquiry, trade counter offers per container type, and keep each offer on record.
- Quotation managementPrice an inquiry with container rates and tariff lines, offer sailing options, download the quotation PDF and track it to acceptance.
- Liner bookingGroup bookings under an export master job for each line and vessel voyage, and book accepted quotations with containers, revenue and cost.
- Release orderRaise a release request against a booking and download the container release order for the yard as a PDF letter or an Excel workbook.
- Bill of ladingTake an export B/L from draft to customer confirmation, gated issue, release to the customer and surrender, with a PDF at draft and issue.
- Export invoicingBill export charges against the booking and B/L, split prepaid from collect, and hold B/L issue until the invoice is receipted or approved.
- Export manifestProduce the Sea Cargo Manifest PDF for one sailing from its invoiced B/Ls, with a voyage header you review and a row for each B/L.
- Import job managementA ten-step import wizard and master job records that take a shipment from vessel arrival to an issued delivery order.
- Import bill of ladingCreate import B/L records by hand, from an uploaded B/L PDF read by AI, or from a container Excel sheet.
- Arrival noticeFind an import B/L, review its destination charges, and produce the arrival notice PDF for the consignee.
- Delivery orderIssue import delivery orders behind discharge, payment and detention checks, then extend validity with detention billed.
- Import invoicingRaise import invoices from the B/L with charges and tax prefilled, and keep detention and M&R invoices alongside.
- Agent statement of accountA statement of account per principal line with annexures, month closing, carry forward, debit notes, settlement and an Excel workbook.
- Tariff managementMaintain tariff items, group them for tax, and keep port storage slabs per line and port and buy and sell rates per forwarding location.
- Vessel and voyage schedulesKeep a vessel master, a voyage master with ETA, ETD and port details, and published vessel voyage schedules that quotations can pick from.
- Line managementSet up each principal shipping line with contacts, tax and bank details, agreement, commission and a port-wise cost matrix imported from Excel.
Questions
Questions and answers
What does Sailix liner agency software cover?
- It covers the work an agent does for a principal line: line profiles with agreement, commission and cost matrix, tariff items, vessel and voyage schedules, bookings, bills of lading, arrival notices, delivery orders, invoices and receipts, and the agent statement of account. Draft and issued B/Ls print in the standard Sailix layout, not on the line's own form.
Who is Sailix liner agency software for?
- It is for liner agents, the companies that represent a shipping line in a port or country and handle its bookings, documents, collections and containers. Sailix keeps bookings, detention profiles and containers against each line, and a line with a login can answer rate requests and approve free days in its own liner portal.
How does Sailix handle GST and customs files for a liner agent in India?
- It raises GST e-invoices itself and prepares customs files for you to submit. Export and import invoices are sent to the Invoice Registration Portal through a GST Suvidha Provider, and the IRN is stored. Cargo Summary Notification and export EDI files are downloads. There is no live connection to ICEGATE, so you upload them through your own filing channel.
How does Sailix prepare the statement of account for a principal?
- Sailix builds it from the invoices and entries already in the system, one principal line at a time. The Agent SOA screen reads one month at a time across an April to March financial year. Rows can be carried forward, debit notes attached and the month closed, which gives the net settlement due. The statement downloads as an Excel workbook.
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