Compare Koda vs. TIO

Koda serves as a cloud-centric freight management solution tailored for freight forwarders primarily in the UK. It facilitates both sea and air shipments, encompassing all aspects from quotation and booking to customs declarations, tracking, delivery, and invoicing. By accepting shipping documents through uploads or designated emails, the platform intelligently extracts relevant information to automatically populate shipment records for staff verification. Users have the capability to oversee shipment statuses, keep track of missing documents and impending ETAs, dispatch operational alerts, and exchange shipment details via dedicated customer and overseas-agent portals. Additionally, Koda provides support for freight and duty invoicing, consolidation processes, sanctions screening, and enables the direct submission of import declarations to HMRC’s Customs Declaration Service (CDS). This innovative platform aims to streamline the entire shipment administration, document management, and customer interaction within a single, user-friendly web-based interface, enhancing operational efficiency for its users. By integrating these features, Koda significantly reduces the administrative burden on freight forwarders, allowing them to focus more on their core business operations.

TIO serves as an intelligent operating system specifically designed for freight forwarders, seamlessly linking your email inbox with your Transportation Management System (TMS) to manage the coordination process: it interprets incoming shipment emails, associates messages with active jobs, and populates TMS records for your team's approval. TIO efficiently manages each phase of the shipping process, which includes activities such as requesting quotes before booking, authorizing bookings, extracting pre-alerts, staging ISF 10+2, monitoring risks for late freight and detention, dispatching trucks, drafting arrival notices, routing customs documents, matching invoices to rates, and closing lots. Every record created in the TMS receives a thorough review and must be approved by a designated team member prior to TIO making any entries, ensuring that there are no automatic submissions. The system is compatible with platforms such as CargoWise, Magaya, Descartes, GoFreight, and any TMS that supports REST or SOAP APIs, and typically, installation can be completed in less than a week for most freight forwarders. Freight forwarders generally process between 80 to 200 shipments each month, and the manual tasks involved in coordinating between the inbox and TMS—such as reading emails, routing information, re-entering data, and following up—typically take around 8 to 12 minutes for each shipment. By automating these repetitive tasks, TIO significantly reduces the time spent on manual coordination, allowing teams to focus on more strategic activities.