Industries
A file that stays profitable after the carrier’s invoice arrives.
A forwarder quotes and closes a file on estimated costs, then the carrier’s invoice, the terminal charge and the demurrage note arrive weeks later. Without accrual every file looks profitable and then quietly is not. Consaya runs a cost sheet per consignment: estimated against actual, charge head by charge head.
A consignment, not a job — with a pre-alert, a bill of lading or air waybill, HS codes and the client’s customs importer code on the checklist.
Ocean and air freight, terminal handling, delivery order, documentation, customs, inspection, transport, storage, demurrage and detention — priced and named the way the industry quotes them.
Paid in the importer’s name, this is a textbook pure-agent recharge — outside the scope of your VAT return, and never your turnover. Consaya models it that way by default.
Estimated costs accrue against the file so margin is honest before the supplier invoices land, and the variance tells you where your quoting is wrong.
Job costing closes against actuals, and the difference between estimate and outturn is reportable per charge head, per client and per trade lane.
Customs duty and import VAT paid on the importer’s behalf are recharged as pure-agent disbursements, which is the treatment the FTA expects and the one most software gets wrong.