For 3PLs & Fulfillment Providers

Your clients are already running RateRunners.

Brands connect their store and WMS without your involvement — because you already gave them access. The 3PLs winning right now are the ones inside the platform, not the ones being flagged from outside it.

When a brand flags a billing error, who controls the narrative? You should.

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The Difference

Every other billing tool stops at the invoice.

Most 3PL billing software connects your WMS, reconciles your carrier invoice, generates a client invoice, and pushes it to Accounting Software. The brand gets a PDF. They pay outside your system. Disputes happen over email.

RateRunners is the only platform where both sides work from the same financial record — and where the money actually moves through it.

Other billing tools

RateRunners

Invoice generation

Brand portal

Shared financial record

Dispute resolution

Email, outside platform

In-platform, both sides

Payment collection

Push to QuickBooks

Transacted in RateRunners

Compliance documentation

3PL-side only

Both sides, every shipment

Manual billing is costing you more than the disputes.

Rate cards in spreadsheets. Invoices built by hand. Adjustments emailed back and forth. Disputes that take two weeks to resolve. This is how most 3PLs operate today — and brands are starting to look for answers themselves.

Rate cards live in spreadsheets.
Invoices are built manually.
Disputes happen over email.

None of it scales. Your clients know it.

How it Works. A Real Shipment. A Real Loss.

One WMS typo. $369.79 gone.

A 1.5-lb package was entered as 150 lbs in the WMS. The label shipped before anyone caught it. UPS billed $377. The brand's agreed rate? $7.21. Without RateRunners, this error goes unnoticed — buried in a carrier invoice no one checks line by line.

RateRunners

Shipment Journey — 3PL View

Order #2041 · Popflex · UPS Ground

Margin Loss
1

Order Received from Brand

Synced

Popflex order #2041 synced via WMS

2

Agreed Rate Applied

Rate Card

UPS Ground — 1.5 lbs — Zone 4 per rate card v3.2

$7.21

3

WMS Weight Discrepancy

Flagged

WMS recorded 150 lbs — order weight is 1.5 lbs

150 lbs

4

Label Shipped at 150 lbs

Error

Shipping label generated from WMS before weight was corrected

5

UPS Carrier Invoice

Billed

UPS billed at 150 lbs label weight — not the actual 1.5 lbs

$377.00

Base rate (150 lbs, Zone 4)
$342.00
Fuel surcharge (12.5%)
$35.00
Agreed rate (1.5 lbs)
$7.21
6

3PL Absorbs the Difference

Your Loss

WMS entry error is 3PL responsibility — brand owes agreed rate only

−$369.79

Shipment P&L

Your cost

$377.00

Bill to brand

$7.21

Net margin

−$369.79

A 150-lb WMS entry error on a 1.5-lb package — you're losing $369.79 on this shipment.

Invoice to Popflex

Agreed rate only — carrier overcharge excluded

$7.21

RateRunners catches these errors automatically — so you can fix the process, not just the invoice.

Billing management

Invoices without the spreadsheets

Pull shipment data from your WMS, apply your rate cards, generate invoices — and send them directly to the brand inside the platform. No spreadsheets. No PDFs. No Accounting Software sync required.

  • WMS-connected invoice generation
  • Rate card application per brand
  • Line-item detail with surcharges and adjustments
  • Send to brand with one click

Your invoices are built from source data, not spreadsheets.

Invoice Builder

Draft
Brand: Acme CommercePeriod: Feb 1–28
Shipments (842)$12,480.00
Fuel surcharges$1,872.00
Residential fees$2,104.00
Adjustments-$340.00
Total$16,116.00
Send to brand
Save draft

Dispute resolution

Both sides. Same platform.

When a brand flags a charge, both sides see the same shipment data — WMS weights, carrier invoices, rate cards. No email threads. No he-said-she-said. Resolve disputes in hours, not weeks.

  • Shared dispute view with source data
  • In-platform messaging and resolution
  • One-click credit issuance
  • Full audit trail on every dispute

Disputes resolved with data, not emails.

Dispute #D-1284

Open
BrandPopflex
Shipment#1841
ChargeWeight discrepancy
Amount$369.79

Both sides see this

WMS recorded weight150 lbs
Shopify order weight1.5 lbs
Issue credit
Reject

Payment collection

Collected in RateRunners

Brands pay inside the platform. ACH, wire, credit card — all tracked, all on record. No more chasing payments across invoicing tools or reconciling outside the system.

  • In-platform payment collection
  • ACH, wire, and credit card support
  • Real-time payment status tracking
  • Automatic reconciliation with invoices

Every payment collected and recorded in one place.

Payments Received

This month

Popflex

ACH · Mar 3

$24,180.00

Paid

Acme Commerce

ACH · Mar 5

$16,116.00

Paid

LuxeGoods

Wire · Mar 12

$8,420.00

Processing

FreshDirect Co.

· Due Mar 20

$11,340.00

Outstanding

Collected

$40,296

Outstanding

$19,760

Performance reporting

Own the narrative before they question it

Show your brands exactly how you're performing — billing accuracy, dispute resolution time, cost trends. When the data is transparent, the relationship is stronger.

  • Billing accuracy metrics
  • Dispute resolution speed tracking
  • Per-brand satisfaction scores
  • Exportable performance reports

Your performance story, told with data.

Your Performance

Last 90 days

Billing accuracy

99.2%

Avg. dispute time

4.2 hrs

Open disputes

2

Brand satisfaction

Popflex

1 dispute, same-day

98%

Acme Commerce

3 disputes, avg 6 hrs

96%

LuxeGoods

0 disputes

100%

Execution documentation

Your compliance record, built automatically

Every shipment has a complete financial record — agreed rate, carrier charge, variance, adjustments, final cost. Both sides see it. Both sides can audit it. Built automatically from source data.

  • Full shipment financial lifecycle
  • Automatic audit trail generation
  • Both-side visibility on every record
  • Rate card compliance verification

Every shipment documented. Every charge defensible.

Shipment Record

Complete
Order
#2041
Agreed rate

Per rate card v3.2

$7.21
Carrier charged

Invoice #INV-8841

$9.21
Variance

Label correction surcharge

+$2.00
Adjusted

Credit issued Mar 4

-$2.00
Final cost

Verified and paid

$7.21
Audit trail6 events logged

Full history available to both brand and 3PL

Free for Every Brand You Connect

Your clients get access. Included in your plan.

When your brand clients join RateRunners, their access is included in your vendor plan. No per-brand fees. No separate contracts. You connect the platform. They get visibility into their shipment costs. Everyone works from the same financial record.

Brand portals included

Every brand you connect gets their own dashboard. No extra charge.

Invite in one click

Send a brand connection invite directly from your account.

No 3PL approval needed

Brands can connect independently. Better to be the 3PL that joins first.