Demo case study — written to show how the page works while the real ones are being documented. Not a real client project.
Atlas Freight · 2025
A quoting portal that replaced a spreadsheet
A freight forwarder’s customers used to email for a rate and wait a day. Now they log in, configure the shipment, and get a quote they can accept — inside WordPress.
The brief
The rates lived in a spreadsheet that three people edited and nobody trusted. Every quote was a person copying numbers into an email. We put the rate table behind a plugin, gave each customer an account with their own negotiated rates, and built the configurator in front of it: lane, volume, incoterm, insurance. The quote is generated, versioned, and downloadable as a PDF that matches what the customer saw on screen. The part that mattered most was the boring part — one place where rates are edited, with a history of who changed what, so the number on the screen is the number the company actually stands behind.
What we delivered
- A customer portal with per-account negotiated rates
- Versioned quotes, exportable as a PDF that matches the screen
- Customer accounts with their own pricing and history
- An internal dashboard showing who changed which rate, and when
Built on
- WordPress
- Custom plugin
- PHP