Logistics, transport & 3PL

Transport management software from booking to invoice

Covadesk books freight against the right rate card, plans it onto trips, prints the waybill, captures proof of delivery and invoices the shipper — then settles the driver net of every advance and charges demurrage on what sat in the yard.

Built for: Freight and haulage companies, cross-border transporters, clearing and forwarding agents, container yards and third-party logistics providers.

Covadesk logistics dashboard with overdue consignments, unallocated freight, on-time delivery and fleet

The problems we solve

Where transporters and 3PLs lose money — and how Covadesk closes the gap

  • Drivers paid twice

    Fuel money and night-out allowances drawn before a long haul are netted off at settlement, so the same money isn’t paid again.

  • Freight delivered, never invoiced

    Delivered consignments waiting to be invoiced sit on the dashboard until they are billed.

  • Rates nobody can explain

    Every quote shows which rate card priced it — the customer’s own card first, then the public tariff — so a disputed charge has an answer.

  • Free storage given away

    A part day in the yard is a day. Demurrage is counted from gate-in date the way tariffs are written.

See it in action

What transporters and 3PLs see in Covadesk

Real Covadesk screens, shown with sample data.

Covadesk logistics dashboard with overdue consignments, unallocated freight, on-time delivery and fleet

What needs attention today, and whether the month is making money.

Features

Everything transporters and 3PLs need, in one system

Consignments

Freight booked to be moved, and where each one has got to.

  • Booking with shipper, consignee, lane, weight and declared value
  • Status from booked through in transit to delivered and invoiced
  • Overdue consignments past their promised date
  • Shipper portal for tracking and proof of delivery

Trips and fleet

Vehicles and drivers moving freight, and what each run earned.

  • Trips with vehicle, driver, route, legs and payload
  • On-time delivery against promised dates
  • Margin by lane and fleet utilisation
  • Vehicle documents, fuel and maintenance through Delivery & Fleet

Waybills and delivery

The paper that travels with the cargo, and the signature that comes back.

  • Waybills printed with your company marks
  • Proof of delivery recorded with the receiver and condition
  • Delivered consignments flow straight to invoicing

Rate cards and billing

Prices that can be explained.

  • Customer and public rate cards by lane and weight band
  • Precedence: customer card over public tariff, live over expired
  • Expiring rate cards flagged before they lapse
  • Freight invoices posted to receivables and the GL

Settlements, yard and customs

The back office of a transport company.

  • Driver settlements net of advances, with approval
  • Yard gate-in and gate-out with demurrage after free days
  • Customs entries for cross-border consignments

How it flows

One process, start to finish

  1. 01

    Quote and book

    Price from the right rate card and book the consignment.

  2. 02

    Plan

    Load consignments onto a trip with vehicle and driver.

  3. 03

    Move

    Waybills travel with the cargo; status updates as it moves.

  4. 04

    Deliver

    Capture proof of delivery and condition.

  5. 05

    Invoice

    Bill delivered freight; the invoice posts and ages.

  6. 06

    Settle

    Pay the driver net of advances, and charge demurrage.

Modules included

The Logistics / Transport / 3PL pack

Freight, transport and third-party logistics operators.

Industry modules for transporters and 3PLs

Switched on by the pack from day one, on top of the backbone below.

  • Warehouse Management

    Operations

    Bin-level control inside the warehouse

    • Visual bin map by zone, with occupancy and fill levels
    • Directed putaway and picking
    • Cycle counts by bin and a full scan log
    • Bin stock reconciled continuously against the inventory ledger
  • Contract Management

    Commercial

    Every agreement, obligation and renewal date tracked

    • Customer and supplier agreements in one register
    • Obligations, rate agreements and renewal reminders
  • Logistics / 3PL

    Operations

    Freight booked, moved, delivered and billed

    • Consignments with weight, value and status from booked to invoiced
    • Trips with vehicle, driver, route and payload
    • Waybills and proof of delivery
    • Rate cards for pricing by lane and weight
    • Driver settlements and yard management
    • Customs entries for cross-border freight

The backbone every Covadesk business runs on

The same core modules run across every industry, so purchasing, stock, sales, accounts and people share one database and one version of the truth.

  • Procurement

    Operations

    Buy with control, from requisition to supplier payment

    • Purchase requisitions routed for approval by value, branch and role
    • Requests for quotation with side-by-side supplier comparison and award
    • Purchase orders that inherit item VAT rates and approved prices
    • Goods received notes with QA tolerance bands for weight, moisture and grade
    • Three-way match of PO, GRN and supplier invoice before anything is paid
    • Supplier advances tracked and recovered against later invoices
    • Supplier register with categories, terms and performance history
  • Inventory

    Operations

    One stock figure that finance and the store agree on

    • Multi-warehouse stock levels, by item, location and batch
    • Batch and expiry tracking with QA holds that block issue until released
    • Inter-branch and inter-warehouse transfers with in-transit stock
    • Stock takes with variance approval and automatic write-off postings
    • Reorder levels per warehouse and full movement history per item
    • Stock ageing and valuation reports that tie to the general ledger
    • Units of measure with conversions — buy in bags, sell in kilos
  • Sales

    Commercial

    Quote, sell, invoice and collect in one flow

    • Quotations that convert to sales orders, delivery notes and invoices
    • Counter POS and counter sales with cash, M-Pesa, card and voucher tenders
    • Price lists and customer categories with credit limits enforced at order time
    • Credit notes, returns and receipts — including refunds on the receipt
    • AR ageing, dunning and credit-override approvals with an audit trail
    • Van sales with load-out, field selling and end-of-day reconciliation
    • Sales commissions and a sales register by channel and period
  • Finance & Accounting

    Finance

    A general ledger every module posts into as it happens

    • Chart of accounts, accounting periods and period close
    • Journals with approval, plus automatic postings from every module
    • Bank accounts, statement import and bank reconciliation
    • Supplier payments, petty cash and AP ageing
    • VAT and withholding tax computed at the transaction line, with returns data
    • Budgets by account and cost centre, with budget-versus-actual
    • Trial balance, profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow on demand
  • Human Resources

    People

    Your people, their records and their requests in one place

    • Employee records with contracts and organisation structure
    • Leave policies, balances, requests and approvals — with self-service
    • Attendance capture and shift rosters
    • Appraisals and disciplinary cases with a recorded outcome
    • An HR service desk for employee requests
  • Payroll

    People

    Kenyan payroll that is right the first time

    • Pay runs with maker-checker approval before release
    • PAYE on current KRA bands with personal relief
    • NSSF, SHIF and Affordable Housing Levy calculated per employee
    • Salary structures, allowances, deductions and staff loans
    • Statutory return files and payslips generated from the same run
    • Payroll journals posted straight to the general ledger
  • Fixed Assets

    Finance

    A fixed asset register your auditor will sign

    • Asset register by category, location and custodian
    • Scheduled depreciation posted to the ledger
    • Disposals with gain or loss calculated and booked
    • Transfers between branches with history
  • Delivery & Fleet

    Operations

    Get orders out of the gate and onto the road

    • Dispatch runs that load delivery notes onto a vehicle and driver
    • Vehicle and driver registers with documents and expiry dates
    • Delivery routes and run status from loading to complete
    • Fuel issues and vehicle maintenance logged per vehicle
  • Reports & Analytics

    Insights

    Answers across every module, without exporting to Excel

    • Executive dashboard with cash, sales, stock, output and receivables
    • Ready-made payroll, HR, sales, stock and finance reports
    • Saved reports, with exports to CSV, Excel and PDF
  • Integrations

    Settings

    Connected to the systems Kenyan businesses depend on

    • KRA eTIMS invoice and credit-note transmission with retry and a send log
    • M-Pesa C2B, STK Push and B2C through Daraja, matched to customer accounts
    • SMS and email notifications
    • Webhooks and API keys for your own systems

Add more when you need it

Any other module can be switched on for your organisation — same data, nothing to re-implement.

  • CRM
  • Projects & Job Costing
  • Manufacturing (Work Orders & MRP)
  • Quality Management (QMS/LIMS)
  • Maintenance (CMMS)
  • Documents
  • Customer & Supplier Portals
  • Helpdesk / Service
  • BI & Workflow Builder
  • Production (Batch/Process)
  • DigiSales (Field Sales)
  • Milling Intake & Weighbridge
  • Construction & Contracting
  • Real Estate & Property
  • SACCO / Microfinance
  • Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • Fuel Stations & Petroleum
  • Automotive Workshops
  • Professional Services
  • NGO / Donor-Funded
  • Hospitality

Compliance

Kenyan rules, built in

Customs
Cross-border entries recorded against consignments.
KRA eTIMS
Freight invoices transmitted to eTIMS.
Payroll statutory
Driver and staff payroll with PAYE, NSSF, SHIF and Housing Levy.

Questions

Covadesk for transporters and 3PLs: common questions

How does Covadesk calculate driver settlements?

A driver’s settlement is their earnings for the trip less everything already drawn against it — fuel advances, night-out allowances and other cash — so nothing is paid twice. Settlements go through approval before payment.

Can customers track their consignments?

Yes. The shipper portal shows their consignments, status and proof of delivery.

How is demurrage charged?

Free days are counted from the gate-in date, and every part day after that is charged as a full day — the way yard tariffs are written.

See Covadesk running for transporters and 3PLs

Book a 30-minute demo. Bring a real problem — a stock variance you can’t explain, a payroll run that takes three days — and we’ll show you how it works in Covadesk.

Prefer to talk? Call +254 117 390 922 or email info@fecn.co.ke