Price modules explained

A price module is one rate rule. Each module produces zero or more lines (quantity × price) for the order, trip or vehicle being priced. A price configuration adds up all its modules. You use the same modules in capacity contracts and in the default cost rates of your platform.

Set up a module

1. In the price configuration form, click a Price module block under Modules, or click Add price module.
2. Choose the type in Price module type (see the table below).
3. Enter a Name (required).
4. Choose the level the module prices in Select price context entity type, for example trip.
5. Fill in the fields for the chosen type, including the Amount where shown.
6. Choose the category in Select pricing category (required). See Pricing categories and cost elements.
7. Optional: add module-specific VAT rules. They take precedence over the VAT rules of the configuration.
8. Optional: switch on Once per invoice so the line appears only once on a combined invoice.
9. Optional: enter a Description or a Custom description for the invoice line.
10. Click Save. The block now shows the type, entity type and amount.

Use the duplicate icon on a block to copy a module, and the close button (×) to remove it.

Module types

Type	Prices	Main fields
Fixed price	A fixed price per order, trip, vehicle or fleet vehicle.	Amount
Per unit	A price per kilometre or mile, or per consignment, goods line, item, action or transport equipment.	Select unit options, Amount
Time-based	A price per period of time for the whole trip or for each action, for example per hour of waiting.	value and Select schedule unit (Minutes to Years), Amount
Rate table	A rate table: the column and row are chosen by distance, counts or visited locations.	units for rows and columns, the cells; Paste from Excel fills the table from copied cells
Route A to B	A price per move from location A to location B (a lane).	Location from..., Location to..., Select granularity (Country, City, Postcode, Street, Exact), Other way around, Amount
Zone	A price per movement that ends in a zone of postcode ranges, for example a delivery area. Nothing is billed when no movement ends in the zone.	the postcode ranges (+ Add postcode), Select movement level (Move Action or Consignment), optionally Zone origin (optional) with Select granularity, Amount
Percentage	A percentage of a value or of the modules before it, for surcharges and discounts.	Percentage and the start value
Price elements	The cost elements of one pricing category found on the trip, its consignments and stop locations.	Select pricing category, Factor
Entity field	A number read from the priced item, used as quantity or as the price.	Selector, Value is (Quantity (× amount per unit) or Price (value is the line price)), Factor
Formula	A calculation over fields of the priced item and price variables.	Formula
Query (TQL)	A price that is the result of a query over your data, for example the number of pallets moved for the customer this month. Prices trips, vehicles, fleet vehicles and transport orders.	the query: record type, filters and fields, as in the query builder
Variable adjustment	A price that moves with a price variable, such as a diesel index, relative to a base level.	the price variable, Base level, Per difference of, Change per step
Excel calculation	A price calculated by an Excel workbook you upload.	Document, Result cell, Factor
Module group	A group of sub-modules whose lines are all billed.	Modules
Highest module value / Lowest module value	Only the sub-module with the highest or lowest total, for example "per km, but at least the fixed minimum".	Modules
Subscription	A recurring price per driver, vehicle, fleet vehicle or transport equipment.	Amount

Query (TQL) modules

The query runs on your platform each time the item is priced, and the result becomes the price of one line. Without selected fields, the price is the number of rows found. With fields, the first field is added up over all rows. In a filter value you can refer to the priced item between double braces, for example {{ customer.id }}, so the query only counts that customer's records. A query that cannot run produces no line.

Formulas and custom descriptions

In a Formula, refer to fields of the priced item between double braces, for example {{ route.distance }} / 1000 * 1.2. Refer to a price variable with a dollar sign followed by its variable name, for example $diesel for the variable diesel.

Leave Custom description empty to use the standard line text. Fill it in to compose your own, for example Order {{orderId}}.