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title: "A quoting portal that replaced a spreadsheet"
description: "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."
canonical: https://aumcreate.com/work/atlas-freight-portal
dateModified: 2026-08-23
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# 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 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.

## Project facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Client | Atlas Freight |
| Year | 2025 |
| Stack | WordPress, Custom plugin, PHP |