Where to find it: Dashboard → Contracts
What Are Contract Rates?
Contract rates (also called Rates on File) are pre-negotiated rates you have with specific carriers for specific lanes. Once stored in Owlery, they can be used to automatically price loads, build loads in bulk, and streamline the quoting and tendering process.
What a rate is made of
- Each rate links a shipper ↔ carrier/broker pair.
- It carries a lane (stops), equipment type, mode (FTL or LTL), rate amount, and an optional date range.
- Rates can be FTL, LTL by pallet, or LTL by weight.
Creating them
- CSV upload for bulk — download the matching template (it changes by rate type) and review validation before committing.
- + Add Rate for a single lane.
- Attach a Fuel Schedule (percentage or per-mile) so surcharges are added automatically.
Bulk-tendering with your rates
- Use Build Contract Loads to create and tender many loads from one rate at once — pick a contract, set dates and counts, and submit. (Requires the Build Contract Loads add-on.)
If a rate won’t match a lane — make sure stop addresses match your saved Facility Profiles and that your shipment dates fall inside the contract’s active date range.
