The layer between your inbox and your TMS.
Your team spends hours typing data from PDFs and emails into CargoWise or TradeWindow. StarShipper reads those documents, extracts the data, and pushes it straight into your TMS. Same system, less typing.
A pre-alert is 10 minutes of typing
Pre-alerts arrive from your overseas agents with Bills of Lading attached. Each one needs a job created in your TMS. Vessel, containers, ports, shipper, consignee, the lot. Until someone reads that email and types the data in, the job doesn't exist in your system. For a team handling 30 pre-alerts a day, that's five hours of typing before anyone starts doing actual forwarding work.
Then there's the linking problem. A Master B/L from the shipping line covers multiple House B/Ls for different consignees. Someone has to figure out which House B/Ls belong to which Master, watch for duplicates when amendments arrive, and keep everything connected. It's detailed, repetitive, and one mistake means cargo goes to the wrong job.
StarShipper sits between your inbox and your TMS. Documents flow in, structured data flows out.
Email Arrives
Pre-alerts with B/Ls and invoices from carriers and agents
Data Extracted
Parsed, validated, Master-House linked, duplicates caught
TMS Updated
Jobs created in CargoWise, TradeWindow, or any TMS via API
How it works for your team
These are the specific capabilities that matter when your day is spent turning documents into TMS data.
Import Job Creation
B/Ls arrive by email, TMS jobs get created automatically. Master-to-House linking, duplicate detection, and real-time updates.
AP Invoice Processing
Extract carrier invoices, match line items to shipments, and flag discrepancies before they become problems.
Bill of Lading Processing
Parse any B/L format into structured data. Vessel, containers, ports, parties, and cargo details extracted in seconds.
Port Manifest Bridge
Generate SpeEDI-format manifests from extracted documents. One click from B/L to customs submission.
Shipment Automation
Rules that trigger when documents arrive, ETAs change, or customs status updates. Your ops team focuses on exceptions.
The layer in front of your TMS
Your team already knows CargoWise or TradeWindow inside out. The pain sits upstream: hours every day reading documents and keying the data in. StarShipper handles that layer. Documents come in through email or upload, data gets extracted and validated, then pushed into your TMS via API or export. Your team only has to review the exceptions.
If you switch TMS platforms tomorrow, StarShipper still works. The extraction is the same. Only the output connector changes.
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Forward a pre-alert email and watch it happen
Send a real pre-alert with B/Ls attached. StarShipper will extract the data, link Master to House B/Ls, and show you the structured result. No signup required.
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