K-frt, a first of its kind new generation business model which delivers enhanced services, seamless integration and operational efficiency designed to manage and optimize the entire freight forwarding system at your finger tips. Being a total web based modular application built with Open-source technology, users of the system can access it worldwide through the World Wide Web. Furthermore, the Open-source nature of K-frt brings more flexibility and less economical maintenance to users.  

One of the features of K-frt is the single seamless flow of data from Quotation to Invoice as both the Documentation Module and Accounting Module are integrated so that when the invoice is raised, the Accounts Module will be updated with the values automatically. It saves time, manpower and still maintain accuracy without the need to reenter the data in the Accounts Module. It will reduce manual tasks, eliminate double entry jobs and increase productivity. In a small company, a single person can manage all the operations through the k-frt system making k-frt a worthy investment to the company.

As the system is online, each branch’s accounting module is integrated with the consolidated accounting module so that the consolidated accounting Ledgers, Journals, P&L account and balance Sheet can be viewed online making it easier to prepare a consolidated accounts of the company.

K-frt is useful for the management because of the MIS facilities which the system is providing. It is important for the freight forwarding companies to know the container wise profitability and profit sharing with their overseas agents. So one of the features of K-frt is that it will be able to automatically calculate and provide both the profitability data and profit sharing record with the agents.

K-frt is scalable as the business grows. We have developed the system in such a way that smaller companies can just used it to make HBL, MBL, and accounts only while Multinationals on the other hand can use K-frt to connect all their branches globally. Furthermore, Multinationals can also utilized K-frt to provide a separate online interface for their customers making k-frt a versatile product.

Other benefits and advantage of K-frt includes :

• Modular and easy to use functions; consisting sea, air, sales and accounting modules

• Auto generated alerts for planning of Customer visits and for Management on visits that Sales representative does not meet on the previous day.

• General Quotations and Shipper Quotations

• Ability to review costing while drafting Quotations

• Quotations, Bill of lading (House and master) & Invoices in customers specified format

• Airway Bill and Bill of Lading in the same format as in original document for easy and convenience of data entry. This is a very important feature which makes the data entry very smooth and fast.

• Automatic flow of rates from Published rates to MAWB

• Clearance expense booking - where the accounts can track the amount allotted to different jobs for doing the clearance

• Branch Budgets, region budgets, sales executive wise budgets, shipper and consignee wise budgets and also comparison against actual sales

• Charges code and Printable name creation in accounts which makes possible to split one ledger into different names and accounts type

• Provides Audit trail

• Various reports;

• Ageing reports, Container profitability, Job profitability, Agency profit Sharing  & others

• Flexible licensing models, including pay as you use model

K-frt was developed was on Open-source concept. The table below shows the specifications;

Description	Requirements
Operating System	Windows 2000 Server or higher / Linux
Development Tool	PHP, Ajax, Java Script, HTML, Css
Database	MySQL
Web Service	Apache
Design Approach	Object Oriented Programming
Security	MySQL Authentication and self-developed
Database Integrity	Relational (Normalized)
Reporting	HTML and PDF Report
Email Service	Email (Pop & SMTP)
FTP Service	FTP

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