AscendTMS
Free Logistics, shipping, and freight management software
4,8 /5 (218 reviews) Write a Review!AscendTMS Overview
What is AscendTMS?
AscendTMS is a logistics and shipping management software that helps businesses of all sizes streamline operations related to dispatching, accounting, commissions, asset management, and more on a centralized platform. The automated workflow engine uses an If This Then That (IFTTT) algorithm to update load details and statuses and send notifications to staff members.
AscendTMS’s load financial module lets supervisors add budgets and expenses to specific loads and monitor overall profit or loss across certain time periods. The route optimization functionality lets team leaders add or edit pickups and drop-offs, calculate traveled distances, and generate ETAs based on weather and traffic conditions. Managers can configure commissions for certain activities and calculate payroll based on multiple methodologies, including pay per mile, hourly, per case, per pallet, and more. It also provides a built-in messaging tool, which lets team members send and receive messages from within the platform, facilitating quick communication across the organization.
AscendTMS comes with an API, which allows organizations to integrate the system with several third-party solutions. It offers electronic data interchange (EDI) capabilities, which let shippers, carriers, and brokers exchange documents, including tenders and invoices. Administrators can set up branch, department, location, or agency based access rights, restricting stakeholder access to specific information.
AscendTMS Overview
Pricing
Pricing options
AscendTMS is available across two pricing plans, outlined below.
Basic: Free, upto 2 users
Premium: $69/ per month (per user)
It also offers a 30-days free trial for premium plan.
AscendTMS Features
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AscendTMS Reviews
AscendTMS Reviews
Great TMS
I just started my business a year ago at that time I was looking for the best TMS for a small start up company that would fit my needs and I have found Ascend TMS to fit my needs. Customer servie rep was very helpful assisting me with setting up branches.
Great option for small business TMS
Our office was using Google Drive, Sheets, Docs, etc to manage an asset based trucking company and a brokerage. While functional, it was very time consuming to do things this way and required a lot more hands on everything each week. With Ascend, we have been able to streamline processes, manage our databases and engage with Quickbooks to free up time for most of our staff members. This has allowed us to spend more time on other things, such as sales, recruiting and overall growth of our companies.
Good For What You Pay
Overall the TMS allowed me to get up and running, but as we continue to grow, we've reached the point of needing to find a TMS that fits our needs. This is a great startup TMS, but realistically anyone who does over $1 - $2 mil in rev will outgrow the TMS fast.
Best choice!!
We started our brokerage in February 2019 -- and as we were growing, we needed a TMS system, excel spreadsheets were just not cutting it. We were able to really increase our capacity and use our time more wisely!
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Great TMS
Pros
Ascend is very user friendly and cost effective
Cons
The shipper directory could use an update
Response from InMotion Global Inc.
Thanks for the AMAZING review, Tamara. You ROCK!!! The AscendTMS Team
Great option for small business TMS
Our office was using Google Drive, Sheets, Docs, etc to manage an asset based trucking company and a brokerage. While functional, it was very time consuming to do things this way and required a lot more hands on everything each week. With Ascend, we have been able to streamline processes, manage our databases and engage with Quickbooks to free up time for most of our staff members. This has allowed us to spend more time on other things, such as sales, recruiting and overall growth of our companies.
Pros
I really like the features for the price of this product. It offers efficiencies in our processes on many levels, allows multiple users to access data, combines information in one place and much more. Other similar systems cost many times more than the Ascend program, making this a great option for smaller companies with smaller budgets.
Cons
Updating templates does not automatically update active loads or pre-existing loads which used those templates. This just means you have to manually update existing loads based on the template in addition to the template itself when making changes.
Response from InMotion Global
THANK YOU SO MUCH, Erika. You are simply the BEST. I will tell the entire team here how happy you are. The AscendTMS Team.
Good For What You Pay
Overall the TMS allowed me to get up and running, but as we continue to grow, we've reached the point of needing to find a TMS that fits our needs. This is a great startup TMS, but realistically anyone who does over $1 - $2 mil in rev will outgrow the TMS fast.
Pros
This software allows you to get up and running fairly quickly, customer service is good when they are open and you can reach someone to talk with. They always seem to be doing updates which is a good thing I suppose.
Cons
Your always told their doing updates which is a good thing, there is never any type of notice when changes are made, what the changes are that are being made, and if you work on the weekend you can't reach anyone. Today particularly systems are down, been down for over an hour, can't reach a single person for support, help, and prevents you from doing your very basic freight functions. As a business owner, paying hourly employees, independent brokers can't help their clients and customers, this snowballed very quickly and go out of control.
Would be nice if we knew what changes were done, when support tells you they will submit a change and get back to you when the change will be done that there was follow through, that you could get support when needed, and have help as the system can be clunky and super temperamental at first. Especially with being a premium user.
Response from InMotion Global
Hi Shawn - thanks for the review. YOU MIGHT WANT TO CHECK YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION. In the last 5 years years we've been down for less than 44 minutes TOTAL. So, I don't think it was AscendTMS that was down, it was likely your Internet connection.
Regarding size of our customers, our largest customer is a $9 billion distributor with 360 DC's and 3 separate logistics offices in North America. So, we can definitely support both the biggest logistics operations as well as the smallest operations like yours (hopefully you'll make it to $9 billion one day, too .
We are glad you're using AscendTMS, Shawn. We'll keep adding more and more features - AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO BE THE HIGHEST RATED TMS SOFTWARE ON THE PLANET!!
The Best
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Pros
I love how I am able forecast my revenue, how it helps me to be more organized and manage my day to day operations with ease. I could not do all this shit manually.
Cons
There are no cons this system is so user friendly
Response from InMotion Global
AMAZING - thank you SO MUCH, Ebony. Your are the best!!! I'm so glad that we're making a real difference for you and your team!! Yours sincerely - The AscendTMS Team.
Best choice!!
We started our brokerage in February 2019 -- and as we were growing, we needed a TMS system, excel spreadsheets were just not cutting it. We were able to really increase our capacity and use our time more wisely!
Pros
I love its customizability and their customer service! We were able to structure the load board how we wanted it. Also, they are really great about listening to their clients. I've had some suggestions that I provided them and they actually implemented them! It's great to see a company actually give you what you are looking for in a program. I know they have a lot in the works and I look forward to growing with them! Also -- with them being partnered with TriumphPay - it was been a lifesaver and timesaver for us. and the price is really great - as a start up -- it's a little tight with revenue and expenses. I really appreciate that as well.
Cons
I'm great! I really have nothing to complain about. Only thing that would be great to have is the bill payment communication to Quickbooks. But that is super minor.
Response from InMotion Global
Katherine - what an amazing review. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I will let our entire team know about your kind words. The AscendTMS Team
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AscendTMS Pricing
AscendTMS Pricing
AscendTMS is available across two pricing plans, outlined below.
Basic: Free, upto 2 users
Premium: $69/ per month (per user)
It also offers a 30-days free trial for premium plan.
AscendTMS is available across two pricing plans, outlined below.
Basic: Free, upto 2 users
Premium: $69/ per month (per user)
It also offers a 30-days free trial for premium plan.
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AscendTMS Features
AscendTMS Features
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Additional information for AscendTMS
Additional information for AscendTMS
Key features of AscendTMS
- Billing & Invoicing
- Contact Database
- Cross Docking
- Customer Database
- Dispatch Management
- Document Management
- Electronic Data Interchange
- Logistics Management
- Order Management
- Recruiting Management
- Routing
- Sales & Operations Planning
- Shipping Management
- Transportation Management
Benefits
Totally free TMS. USed by over 29,300+ logistics customers worldwide.
AscendTMS FAQs
AscendTMS FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for AscendTMS.
Q. What type of pricing plans does AscendTMS offer?
AscendTMS offers the following pricing plans:
Starting from: US$69,00/month
Pricing model: Free, Subscription
Free Trial: Available
AscendTMS is available across two pricing plans, outlined below. Basic: Free, upto 2 users Premium: $69/ per month (per user) It also offers a 30-days free trial for premium plan.
Q. What are the main features of AscendTMS?
AscendTMS offers the following features:
- Billing & Invoicing
- Contact Database
- Cross Docking
- Customer Database
- Dispatch Management
- Document Management
- Electronic Data Interchange
- Logistics Management
- Order Management
- Recruiting Management
- Routing
- Sales & Operations Planning
- Shipping Management
- Transportation Management
Q. Who are the typical users of AscendTMS?
AscendTMS has the following typical customers:
Small Business, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business
Q. What languages does AscendTMS support?
AscendTMS supports the following languages:
English
Q. What type of pricing plans does AscendTMS offer?
AscendTMS has the following pricing plans:
Free, Subscription
Q. Does AscendTMS support mobile devices?
We do not have any information about what devices AscendTMS supports
Q. What other apps does AscendTMS integrate with?
AscendTMS integrates with the following applications:
Comdata AP Automation, KeepTruckin, Stripe, Twilio, UPS Ready
Q. What level of support does AscendTMS offer?
AscendTMS offers the following support options:
Phone Support, Online Support, FAQs, Knowledge Base, Video Tutorials
I just started my business a year ago at that time I was looking for the best TMS for a small start up company that would fit my needs and I have found Ascend TMS to fit my needs. Customer servie rep was very helpful assisting me with setting up branches.