Rates Audit
Analyzes your invoice line by line and checks every charge against your contract — base rates, surcharges, and accessorials alike. Anything rated incorrectly is flagged, so overcharges surface instead of quietly passing through.
The Parcel Optimizer AI platform gives small and mid-size shippers custom and prebuilt tools for working with billing data related to shipping parcels — without ever touching your rates or taking a revenue share.
Built for small and mid-size shippers. If you need to recalculate your shipping bills, expose your custom rates in an API, or move your parcel billing data from one system to another — we’ve got you covered.
Re-run a real carrier invoice through the same engine that prices your live bills — against up to three rate scenarios, including a different carrier entirely. Your savings and your margin, side by side, as they would actually be billed.
See how it worksAnalyzes your invoice line by line and checks every charge against your contract — base rates, surcharges, and accessorials alike. Anything rated incorrectly is flagged, so overcharges surface instead of quietly passing through.
Split shipments into invoices for your customers using whichever rates you prefer — cost-plus, list, contract, or custom. Full re-rating with multiple customer formats, and multiple carrier files can be combined into one customer invoice.
Easily convert parcel data into any accounting report. No need to rework anything on your side.
All data is kept in a data lake for easy integrations. We ship a prebuilt MCP with Claude so you can chat with your data and get clear insights.
Chat with your dataParcel Optimizer is the quantitative half — every charge recalculated from your contract by the same billing engine that produces your live bills. The AI layer is the qualitative half — it reads those same figures in context and tells you what to do about them.
Computed, never estimated.
Every row is recalculated line by line against your contract — not sampled, not modeled. These are the figures your carrier has to answer for.
Read in context.
Your residential surcharge isn’t drifting — it’s mix. The +3.2% is almost entirely zone 7–8 growth, not a rate change, so renegotiating the surcharge itself won’t move it. The $0.44 gap to UPS Ground is real, but it’s only worth chasing on the 2,100 packages that actually land in those zones. Moving your whole Ground volume to capture $5,650 a quarter would put your two-day lanes at risk.
Cause, caveat and trade-off — the parts of the answer that decide whether the number is worth acting on.
Most tools give you one half and let you guess the other — you get both, on the same data.
An AI interface to your parcel data. Ask questions in plain English and get the insights you need — from spend analysis to carrier comparisons to surcharge breakdowns. No SQL. No spreadsheets.
Flat monthly fees — no revenue share, no hidden costs. Adjust the sliders to build a plan that fits your operation.
Full platform support for FedEx, UPS, and Purolator.
| Feature | FedEx | UPS | Purolator |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rates Analysis | |||
| Re-rate an invoice against alternate rate scenarios | Available | Available | Q1 2027 |
| Cross-carrier comparison · evaluate carrier proposals | Available | Available | Q1 2027 |
| Savings and margin reporting | Available | Available | Q1 2027 |
| Rates Audit | |||
| Verify charges against your contract | Available | Available | Q1 2027 |
| Surcharge and accessorial audit | Available | Available | Q1 2027 |
| Billing | |||
| Split carrier invoices into customer invoices | Available | Available | Available |
| Calculate customer rates using discount or mark up billing methods | Available | Available | Available |
| Combine multiple carrier files into a standardized customer invoice | Available | Available | Available |
| Custom Reports for Accounting Systems | |||
| Convert files for your accounting system | Available | Available | Available |
| GL code shipments | Available | Available | Available |
| Export shipping data into other systems | Available | Available | Available |
| Reporting suite | Available | Available | Available |
| Data Lake, MCP & AI | |||
| Private data lake | Available | Available | Available |
| Chat with your data · prebuilt MCP with Claude | Available | Available | Available |
If you need to recalculate your shipping bills, expose your custom rates in an API, or move your Parcel Billing data from one system to another, please contact us for a complimentary quote.
See how Parcel Optimizer can automate your shipping data workflow and save you money on every invoice.