Finally, Billing That Works the Way Your 3PL Runs

Billing is supposed to be a back-office task, but at most 3PLs it becomes a daily grind. You’re pulled into reconciling exports, sorting through exceptions, and cleaning up data that should have been right the first time. The work slows down your team and holds back cash you’ve already earned.

Every operator knows it’s broken, yet the process keeps repeating because nothing in your stack was built to fix it.

Octup finally does. Here's how a better billing system changes everything.

Stop Losing Money to Manual Billing

Most 3PLs miss revenue because activity never gets captured in the first place. It’s the small items that slip: a VAS task someone forgot to log, a case pack that didn’t flow through, a storage change that was never updated. You feel these misses at the end of the month, but they were already gone long before finance started working.

Octup solves this at the source. The platform pulls signals from every system you use and applies each client’s rate logic automatically. You don’t need to hunt for what happened. Octup reads the activity in real time and turns it into charges that reflect the actual work your team completed. It’s a simple shift that adds back the revenue you’ve been losing.

Capture Every Dollar

Once your activity is pulled into one place, Octup handles the messy part:interpreting it. The platform reads warehouse events, VAS, recurring services, and SKU-level rules, then applies the right rate card for each client. This gives you billing that finally matches how your contracts are written, not how fast someone can copy and paste from a spreadsheet.

You get invoices built from real, verified activity instead of guess work or backtracking. The result is revenue that shows up the way it should, every cycle.

Automated Billing: Weeks to Days

A lot of 3PLs take days or even weeks to build invoices. It isn’t because the team is slow. It’s because the data is scattered, the rules are complex, and every invoice feels like a mini project.

Octup changes the workflow entirely. The moment work is complete, charges are organized, grouped by service, and prepped for approval.Invoicing becomes a continuous process instead of a month-end scramble. Your team doesn’t have to wait for anything to close; the system does the heavy lifting while operations keep moving.

Real-Time Billing Improves Cash Flow

When billing moves in real time, collections move in real time. You no longer push all invoices out at the end of the month, and you no longer wait weeks to recognize revenue. Octup gives you the flexibility to send invoices weekly or daily, depending on what works for your clients and your finance team.

Faster delivery means stronger cash flow and fewer situations where you are fronting operational costs for completed work.

Client Transparency Without the Back-and-Forth

Brands expect billing that’s easy to understand. When charges vary by order type, storage tier, or project, the conversations multiply. A portal changes that dynamic. Octup gives your clients a simple login where they can see their invoices with full itemization and clear explanations for each charge.

This cuts down on emails and dispute cycles, and it builds trust because your partners can see exactly how their billing lines up with the services you performed. When information is accessible, you spend less time explaining and more time operating.

Business Intelligence Built Into Billing

Billing shouldn’t sit apart from the rest of your financial picture. Octup ties it directly into your margin data so you can see where you earn and where you lose money. You get visibility into profit and loss by client, over- and under-billing patterns, and SKU-level performance.

Finance teams gain the insight they need to fix pricing gaps, renegotiate rate cards, and understand which partnerships help or hurt the bottom line. Instead of relying on assumptions, you make decisions based on clean, unified data.

AI Co-Pilot for Fast Answers

Octup includes an AI assistant that lets you ask billing questions in plain language. If you want to know why a client’s charges shifted this month or which accounts weren’t billed at full value, you get the answer without digging through exports. It’s a quick way to understand what changed and why.

Built for 3PL Complexity

None of this works unless the system connects easily to the tools you already use. Billing sits on top of WMS, OMS, EDI, and financial systems without a heavy lift. You don’t replace your stack. You simply gain accuracy, speed, and visibility.

Your team already did the work. Octup helps you bill for it clearly and quickly, without the manual lift that slows everything down.

Ready to capture every dollar? Turn billing from a time sink into a profit engine. Book a demo and we’ll show you how your billing process could run itself.