📦 equosFreight
equosFreight is a desktop freight app for Windows, Mac, and Linux that keeps its data on your machine — it books consignments, prints labels, and reconciles carrier invoices. This page will guide you through how it is put together, the two tiers you can run it on, and what each part does.
You sign in with your EQUOS account and go. On the free local tier your freight data lives in a local database on your own device, so the records of what you sent stay with you.
equosFreight is a separate product from the freight brokerage inside the EQUOS platform. This desktop app books through your own carrier accounts and does not compare live rates across carriers. For rate brokerage across TNT, Aramex, and Border Express side by side, see Freight on the Complete plan.
Two ways to run it
equosFreight runs on one of two tiers, and you can move between them.
- Free local tier — books through your own carrier accounts. You bring your own credentials, and your consignments and invoices are kept in a local database on your device.
- Complete cloud tier — connects to the EQUOS platform's managed carriers instead of your own accounts, as part of the Complete plan. Your freight data syncs to the platform rather than living only on the machine.
A migration path moves you from the local tier up to the cloud tier when you are ready, carrying your records across so you are not starting again.
Carriers
On the free local tier you connect the carrier accounts you have already built. Aramex and Australia Post are the established integrations, and they are the ones to lead with.
- Open "Carrier Settings" and pick a carrier to enter its API keys, account numbers, and SFTP drops.
- Credentials are stored encrypted on the device, so your account details stay on your machine.
- Changes take effect on the next app restart.
The app's carrier registry also includes StarTrack, Border Express, FedEx, TNT, and an in-house delivery option, so more carriers than the two headline names sit in the list.
Booking a consignment
When a shipment is ready to dispatch, you simply enter the details and the consignment is created with your chosen carrier.
- Enter the consignment details and choose the carrier.
- The consignment is booked through the connected account.
- The label is ready to print, so it can go straight onto the carton.
This ensures the record of what you sent exists from the moment it leaves, not after the fact.
Reconciling the carrier invoice
Reconciliation is where equosFreight earns its keep. Carrier invoices arrive — sometimes weeks later — and rather than checking them line by line yourself, you open the invoice in the app and it lines the rows up against the consignments they belong to.
- Open the carrier invoice in the app.
- The rows are pulled into a tidy view, matched to the consignments they refer to.
- For each consignment the charges land where they belong — fuel, base rate, surcharges, and GST, broken down properly.
This allows the figure in your books to match the figure on the invoice, and the matched charges feed the spend reports so you can see where the freight money is going.
Transit cover
Transit insurance with FreightInsure is being integrated into the booking flow. Cover options are on the way, so you will be able to choose transit cover as you create a consignment. For the full detail on how transit cover works across the freight products, see Transit Insurance.
What equosFreight doesn't do
- It doesn't manage a fleet — no driver schedules, vehicle maintenance, or route planning.
- It has no customer tracking dashboard. The carriers handle tracking; equosFreight handles the bookings, labels, and reconciliation around them.
- It doesn't talk to equosBooks. The two apps are separate — if a consignment cost needs to land in your books, you carry it across yourself.
equosFreight is being prepared for release. The capability described here is built and being readied; when it is available to download, this page will point you to it.