Your agents email HBLs overnight. StarShipper processes them.
BCC your StarShipper inbox when agent emails arrive. By morning the House B/Ls are read, checked and sitting in CargoWise as jobs, with the documents filed on eDocs, so nobody re-keys anything.
The first two hours of every morning
Your overseas agents email House Bills of Lading overnight. By the time you sit down at 8am, there are dozens waiting: PDFs attached to emails, sometimes scanned, sometimes not. Each one needs to be opened, read, and manually typed into CargoWise. Shipper, consignee, container numbers, ports, vessel, voyage. Fifteen minutes per HBL if you're quick.
One typo in a container number and you've got a customs hold. One wrong port code and the manifest fails validation. And there's no visibility into what's arrived until someone works through the stack.
The data is already in those documents. StarShipper gets it out accurately and into CargoWise before your morning starts.
BCC the Email
Agent sends HBL, you BCC your StarShipper inbox. That's it.
Parsed Overnight
Every field extracted and validated while you sleep.
Jobs in CargoWise
Sent straight in, with your org codes on the parties and documents on eDocs.
Each field, extracted and validated
StarShipper reads House Bills of Lading, whether PDF, scanned or digital, and pulls out every field you'd normally re-key by hand. Container numbers are validated against ISO 6346 checksums, port names are resolved to UN/LOCODE codes, and a shipment record is automatically created linking all related documents together.
When you sit down, your shipments list shows what arrived overnight, which jobs are already in CargoWise, and the few that need a look. Your morning goes on the exceptions.
What we extract from every HBL
All fields are mapped to CargoWise out of the box and sent through eAdaptor. If you want the file, download it as Universal XML or Job Header CSV.
Built for Australian freight forwarders
We built this for small-to-mid-size freight forwarding teams who use CargoWise and process inbound sea freight through Australian ports. The teams where one or two people handle lead-ins and pre-alerts, and every HBL they don't have to re-key is fifteen minutes back for work that needs a person.
StarShipper tracks vessel schedules, validates customs readiness for N10 declarations, and understands Australian port workflows. It's built for how Australian freight works.
Try it with your Commercial Invoice or Bill of Lading
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