Bills of lading, proof of delivery and customs document captureEvery shipping document read, tied to its consignment and checked
Bills of lading, proof of delivery and customs document capture, designed and built for you by Dev Soft UK with DocView Capture, DocView Web and DocView OmniRead. Packing lists, commercial invoices, certificates of origin, CMRs and signed PODs are sorted, read and checked before your team touches them.
One consignment, many documents, many senders
A single shipment can produce a bill of lading, a packing list, a commercial invoice, a certificate of origin, a customs declaration, a dangerous goods note and a signed POD. They come from forwarders, customs agents, drivers and carriers, on paper and by e-mail, at different times.
When one is missing, mis-keyed or unsigned, goods wait, the customer invoice waits for proof, and a carrier bill can be paid without anyone comparing it with what was agreed.
Exceptions hide in the pile
A "short by two cartons" note scrawled on a POD is easy to miss when it sits in a stack of clean deliveries. The process has to bring it to the surface.
From the stack to the right consignment
Collect
Depot scanners, forwarder e-mails, customs agent uploads and partner SFTP drops all feed the same flow.
Separate and sort
Barcodes and rules split the stack, and each document is identified as a BoL, packing list, invoice or POD.
Read and check
References, parties, quantities, weights and signatures are read and checked against your rules.
Match
Each document is tied to its consignment or shipment number from your own data.
Deliver or escalate
Clean documents go to your systems. Unsigned, damaged or short deliveries go to a person.
What the products already do
- Ready-made setups for delivery notes and proof of delivery, US bills of lading, CMR consignment notes and UK and EU customs declarations
- Separation by barcode, patch code, blank page, keyword or page count, with backs of sheets kept with their fronts
- Classification by rules or a classifier trained on your samples, with uncertain documents sent for review
- Signature boxes read as signed or not
- Label and value finders, and tables read over several pages
- EORI and MRN formats in the customs setups, plus pattern, length and check-digit validators
- Fuzzy lookup against your own master data, such as customers or consignments
- Batch split, so problem documents go to a person while the rest carry on
- Searchable PDF plus XML, CSV or JSON, sent to folders, SFTP, SQL, REST or webhook
Recognition runs on DocView OmniRead, DocView's own engine, on your servers or hosted by us.
The logistics-specific work, done by Dev Soft UK
We start from the ready-made setups and add the documents, checks and routes your operation needs.
More trade documents
We configure document types for packing lists, commercial invoices and certificates of origin, with fields such as commodity codes, quantities, weights, origin and values.
Cross-document checks
We build rules that compare package counts, weights and values across the bill of lading, packing list and invoice for one consignment.
POD exceptions
We configure what happens when a POD is unsigned or marked damaged or short, and can build the carrier claim route in DocView Web.
Carrier invoice audit
We build checks of billed charges against your rate card and shipment records, flagging surcharges and possible duplicate shipments.
Dangerous goods notes
We set up capture of dangerous goods notes and shipping declarations, with checks that the fields your process needs are filled in.
Your systems
We can connect DocView to your transport, warehouse, customs or accounting systems, through the ready-made destinations or a connector we build.
The same flow can be extended to fleet penalty notices, vehicle defect sheets and engineer job cards with customer sign-off.
Teams that live by the paperwork of a shipment
Anyone who cannot invoice, clear or pay until the right document is on file. For a view of the whole sector, see logistics document capture.
Logistics document questions
Is this an off-the-shelf product?
No. It is DocView Capture, DocView Web and DocView OmniRead, configured by Dev Soft UK for your documents and, where needed, extended with work we build for your process. Some parts, such as the POD, bill of lading, CMR and customs setups, exist today; the rest is set up for you.
Which shipping documents have a ready-made setup today?
Delivery notes and proof of delivery, US bills of lading, CMR consignment notes and UK and EU customs declarations. Packing lists, commercial invoices, certificates of origin and dangerous goods notes are configured for you as extra document types.
Can DocView tell whether a POD has been signed?
Yes. Signature boxes are read as signed or not. We set where the signature box is on your PODs and what happens to an unsigned one.
Can you check carrier invoices against our rates?
Not as a ready-made feature. We build that check for you, using your rate card and shipment data, and send differences to a person for a decision.
Will it work with our transport management system?
DocView delivers data by REST or webhook, SQL, SFTP, folders and ready-made business-system destinations. Where your system needs something else, we can build the connection.
Send us one consignment's paperwork
Share a few sample bills of lading, PODs and customs documents and we will show how DocView could handle them, or start a free 14-day demo.