Freight Forwarding Management for Odoo

At its core is a dedicated shipment model built on Odoo's ORM (models.Model) that mirrors how forwarders actually work: Direct, House and Master (HBL/MBL) shipment structures with parent/child links so you can consolidate multiple house shipments under one master and see the full co-load at a glance. Each shipment carries mode-aware fields for air, ocean (FCL/LCL) and land, with computed fields driven by @api.depends — chargeable and volumetric weight, total volume, teu counts and margin roll up automatically as you capture containers and cartons with their weights and dimensions.

Operational visibility is first-class. Dated tracking events (booking confirmed, gate-in, loaded on board, departed, arrived, customs cleared, delivered) are recorded on a timeline and surfaced on a branded customer tracking page so your clients self-serve status instead of emailing your desk. Customs and compliance data — HS codes, incoterms, declaration references, ports of loading and discharge — live on the shipment and flow into QWeb PDF documents such as the house bill of lading, cargo manifest and arrival notice.

Billing is where forwarders lose money, so the module models it correctly: one customer invoice plus multiple vendor bills per shipment. Charge lines (ocean freight, THC, documentation, customs clearance, haulage, insurance) capture buy rate and sell rate per line, compute margin, and post to Odoo Accounting with the right analytic account — giving you true per-shipment profitability instead of a monthly guess.

Access is locked down with ir.model.access.csv and record rules so operations, accounts and management each see only what they should, and multi-branch record rules keep separate offices isolated. Automated actions handle the repetitive work — nudging when an ETA passes without a gate-in event, or flagging shipments missing a customs reference. Everything is exposed over Odoo's XML-RPC / JSON-RPC API so your website, carrier portals or a customer app can read shipment status and push tracking events. The module works on Odoo Community and Enterprise; where a feature benefits from Enterprise (studio-style approvals, advanced accounting analytics), we tell you up front rather than assume your edition.

Because ECOSIRE builds it, you get code written to Odoo standards — a clean __manifest__.py with pinned dependencies, upgrade-safe migrations, and views in XML/OWL that feel native — plus documentation, admin and user training, and a post-go-live support window. You own the source. No lock-in, no per-shipment SaaS fee.