Linbis alternative for answering quote requests

Linbis is a full freight forwarding system from Miami: shipments, warehousing, accounting, a quote portal for your website, from US$150 a month. If you need all of that, it's good value. If what you actually need is to answer the quote requests already sitting in your inbox, faster, Laneworks does that one job without moving your operations into a new system.

Forward one real quote request See a sample draft

Free trial: forward a request to try@getlaneworks.com and the draft comes back in about two minutes. No sign-up, no call.

Where Linbis wins

It's a whole operating system for a small forwarder: shipments, documents, WMS, invoicing and a double-entry ledger.
It's cheaper per month if you'll use all of it (US$150 for one user, US$299 for three).
It has an online quote portal customers can use on your website.

Where Laneworks wins

No migration: it works from email, next to Linbis, CargoWise, Magaya or a spreadsheet.
Nobody builds the quote. It reads the customer's own email and attachments, prices every line from your rate sheet and writes the reply.
Auto-reply: fully priced quotes go to the customer from your mailbox in about two minutes, 24/7.
All users included: one monthly plan by quote volume.

How it works

Forward the customer's quote request to your Laneworks address, attachments and all.
We read it: lane, cargo, weights and dimensions, Incoterm and delivery address are pulled out of the email and any packing list.
We price it by fixed rules against your own rate sheet. The AI never sets a price, and every line names the rate-sheet row it came from.
Sent for you, or checked by you. With auto-reply on, fully priced quotes go straight to your customer from your own mailbox, usually within two minutes, 24/7. Anything unusual comes to your team as a draft.

Replies that send themselves

Switch on auto-reply and a request that is fully priced from your rates, with nothing flagged, goes straight back to the customer from your own mailbox, usually within two minutes, nights and weekends included. Anything unusual comes to your team as a ready-to-send draft instead.

What Laneworks costs

Monthly price by quote volume, not per user: every person on the team can forward to it. Plans start at A$1,500 a month (about US$980 or £780) including 150 quote requests; larger plans cover 500 and 1,500 requests a month. No per-quote fees, a one-off A$2,500 setup fee (waived on annual plans), cancel any time.

The free trial needs no card, no call and no sign-up: forward one real quote request to try@getlaneworks.com and the priced reply comes back in about two minutes. Attach your rate sheet and it's priced from your own rates. Pricing

Check the accuracy yourself

Laneworks publishes its test: 22 messy quote requests (port codes, EXW pickups, air volumetric weight, LCL weight-or-measure, reefer, dangerous goods, spreadsheet and PDF attachments) run against a rate sheet you can download, with every total recalculated by hand. Whichever quoting tool you choose, ask for the same on your own requests. Laneworks will run 20 of yours against your rate sheet, free, and send back the scored workbook. See the benchmark

Questions

Is Laneworks a replacement for Linbis?

No. Linbis runs your operations; Laneworks answers quote requests. Many forwarders will want a system like Linbis and still have a quote inbox nobody can keep up with.

Does Laneworks work with Linbis?

Yes, from email. Forward requests to your Laneworks address; the priced reply comes back to you or straight to the customer.

How do we test it?

Forward one real quote request to try@getlaneworks.com. The priced reply comes back in about two minutes.

Try it on one of today's requests

Forward a real quote request to try@getlaneworks.com. The priced draft comes back in about two minutes.

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