Trips

Trip costs and revenue

See the expected cost and turnover of a trip, add cost elements and read the trip ledger.

Updated 4 October 2026

Who can do this: The ledger permission to see amounts. Cost elements need the financial feature.

Every trip keeps track of what it is expected to cost and earn. You see the totals in the trip panel and the details in the trip's ledger. When the trip is driven, expected amounts become actual ones and end-of-trip invoicing can run.

Where you see the numbers

  • Information tab: Trip expected turnover and Trip expected costs.
  • Ledger tab: the Costs overview and the ledger entries.
  • The trip form: after Calculate route, the Costs overview shows the route costs.

Where costs come from

SourceExamples
Route costsFuel, Toll (per country), Working time and Distance cost, calculated with the route.
Cost elements on the tripA ferry ticket, parking or a waiting fee you add yourself.
Resource pricingRates set on the vehicle, the drivers and the transport equipment.
Location costsCosts set on the addresses of the stops.
Carrier costsFor forwarded trips: the spot quote, or else the pricing of the capacity contract.

Revenue comes from the transport orders whose consignments the trip carries, and from any customer pricing your platform has set up for trips or vehicles. See Pricing.

Add a cost element

  1. Open the trip and click Edit (✎).
  2. Scroll to Cost elements.
  3. Click + Add cost element.
  4. Choose the pricing category in Select pricing category, choose the business it is paid to, and enter the amount.
  5. Optionally click + Add comment to add a description.
  6. Click Save.

Read the ledger

  1. Open the trip and click the Ledger tab.
  2. Check the Costs overview: every cost line with its amount, and the total.
  3. In the ledger table, switch between By Category, By Business and Combined.
  4. Compare Expected Revenue and Expected Cost with Actual Revenue and Actual Cost, and read the Result.

When the trip is completed

When a trip reaches Completed, pricing set to invoice at the end of a trip creates invoices for the customers of the orders on it. With planner completion turned on, this happens when you click Complete trip. See Invoices.

Cancelling a trip removes its expected costs and revenue from the ledger.

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