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Tariffs (setup & creation)

Tariff Profiles hold the storage-and-gate rates that price real customer billing — flat rates (handling, one-off charges) and slab/day-band rates (storage, priced differently depending on how many days a container has dwelled). This page covers creating and publishing a profile; how the platform actually picks which profile and rate apply to a given charge is a separate, deeper topic covered in Tariff resolution — read that once you understand the basic shape here.

Before you start

  • Charge codes must already exist — every rate in a profile references one.
  • Tax components should exist if any rates need tax applied.

Walkthrough

Tariffs live at Billing → Tariffs, under the Storage & Gate sub-tab (the other sub-tab, Repair Rates, is covered separately in Repair rate books).

Creating a profile

Click New Profile:

  • Name (required)
  • Description
  • Set as default checkbox
  • Tax Components — defaults applied to rates in this profile unless a rate overrides them
  • Effective From / Effective To — optional date range

New profiles start in Draft status.

Adding rates to a profile

Open a profile to see its detail page. While the profile is Draft, click Add Rate:

  1. Pick a Charge Code. Whether the code is slab-rated determines the rest of the form.
  2. Optionally restrict by Container Sizes (ISO size/type chips) — leaving none selected applies the rate to all sizes not covered by a more specific rate or slab group.
  3. For a flat-rate charge code: set Rate, Min Charge, Free Days, and optionally a Shipping Line to scope the rate to one line only (default: "Any"). Tax Components can be overridden here too.
  4. For a slab-rated charge code: set Slab #, Day From, Day To (leave blank for an open-ended final slab), Rate/Day, Min Charge, and Free Days. Slabs within the same group (same charge code + sizes + shipping line) must be contiguous — day ranges can't have gaps or overlaps. The form pre-fills the next slab's Day From from the previous slab's Day To, and a conditions editor lets you attach applicability conditions to the whole group.
  5. Use the group's Add Slab button (from the slab group view) to continue an existing slab sequence without re-entering the charge code, sizes, or shipping line each time.

Publishing

A profile only prices real charges once it's Published — while Draft, rates can be freely added/edited but nothing bills against them. Click Publish on the profile detail page; a Published profile's rates lock, and you'd need Revert to Draft to edit them again (which un-publishes it in the process).

Draft vs Published matters everywhere downstream

Invoice generation, previews, and reports that resolve a tariff all skip Draft profiles entirely. If billing looks wrong or a preview shows no rate found, check whether the intended profile is still sitting in Draft.

Who can access this

Requires billing access. Admin has full access; Billing has full read/write access; Manager has read access to billing generally. Gate Operator, Yard Operator, and Viewer cannot see this page (see Logging in & roles).