Clearing & forwarding, with seedha hisaab.
Sauda Trade is built for small customs clearing and freight-forwarding agents in Pakistan. Every shipment is a job; every charge is tagged reimbursable or billable; and you finally see the real profit on each client — without the Excel sheet.
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The one thing Excel can’t tell you: real profit per job
Your invoice mixes duty you paid on the client’s behalf with the fee you actually earn. Sauda Trade keeps them apart on every line, so the numbers finally mean something.
Job-based, like your work
Every shipment is a job — BL/AWB, GD number, PSID, containers and status from booked to paid. Invoices, payments and documents all hang off it.
Reimbursable vs billable
Tag every charge as pass-through or your margin. See the real profit on each job and each client — not one mixed-up total.
A rate engine that knows tax
Customs duty, sales tax, ACD, RD and your own charges computed in the right order on the right base. Weight and weight × days slabs for storage and demurrage.
Advances that carry forward
Clients pay before clearing, sometimes more than the cost. Surplus becomes credit, shortfall becomes receivable — and every new invoice offers to apply it.
GD reconciliation vs PSW
Type, paste or upload the PSW assessment. Sauda Trade ties invoice ⇄ challan ⇄ cash fronted and flags any leg that doesn’t match.
FBR digital e-invoicing
A step-by-step wizard gets your PRAL token connected. Sauda Trade clears the sandbox scenarios and submits your invoices to FBR.
Every shipment, from booking to payment
Open a job for each consignment and move it through the pipeline. Charge templates for import-sea, import-air and export load the usual lines for you, so a new job takes a minute, not a spreadsheet.
- Status pipeline: booked → docs → GD filed → duty paid → cleared → delivered → invoiced → paid
- BL/AWB, GD, PSID/challan, containers, mode and direction on one screen
- Documents (BL, GD, invoices, challans) filed against the job
- Demurrage free-day countdown with alerts before the penalty starts
Duty and tax math you never do by hand
Rates resolve customer override → your own rate → the default, and taxes compute in sequence on a running base — so sales tax is worked out on customs value plus duty, the way the assessment does it. Invoices snapshot the rates used, so a rate change never rewrites an old bill.
- Fixed, percentage and slab rates (1-D weight, or 2-D weight × days)
- Per-client negotiated service charge set once at onboarding
- Effective dates and rate snapshots protect past invoices
- Estimates and quotations from the same engine, then estimate vs actual
Know who owes whom — per client, to the paisa
Record an advance before a job is even invoiced. When the final cost is lower, the surplus carries forward as client credit; when it is higher, the shortfall lands on their receivable. It is an append-only ledger, so the history is always there when a client asks.
- Advances and overpayments carry forward automatically
- Every new invoice highlights the client balance — one click to apply
- Paid / partial / overdue / advance-credit at a glance
- Branded email and WhatsApp reminders from editable templates
Reconcile against the GD. E-invoice to FBR.
Sauda Trade does not file on PSW — it checks your numbers against what PSW actually assessed. Bring the assessment across by typing, pasting the table or uploading the PDF; the PSID/challan is the hard reference. For sales-tax-registered agents, invoices submit to FBR Digital Invoicing through PRAL.
- Three ways in: manual entry, copy-paste, or PDF upload
- Reads labels like “Customs Duty” and “Sales Tax”, not column positions
- Guided PRAL token onboarding, sandbox scenarios cleared for you
- Tokens encrypted per business, never shared
Everything else a small agency runs on
Client detail page
Billed, outstanding, balance, lifetime profit, goods mix, jobs, invoices, payments and documents — one page per client.
Expenses & other income
Log office costs with a receipt photo and link job-level costs to the job, so job profit is honest.
Payroll & attendance
Attendance feeds payroll; staff advances and loans are kept in their own khata-style ledger.
Reports & analytics
P&L, per-client profitability, receivables, jobs per stage, demurrage exposure, and a simple balance sheet.
Owner digest
A short daily summary of cash collected, outstanding and stuck jobs, straight to your inbox.
Datagrids & Excel
Every list filters and sorts per column, and imports or exports to Excel when you need it.
From spreadsheet to first job in three steps
Create your account
Sign up, add your business details and upload your logo so every invoice goes out branded.
Add clients and rates
Import your client list and set any negotiated service charges. Default charge templates are ready for import and export jobs.
Open your first job
Enter the BL and GD, let the rate engine fill the charges, reconcile against PSW, and send the invoice.
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Who is Sauda Trade for?
Small customs clearing and freight-forwarding agents in Pakistan — typically 2 to 10 people who run their jobs, rates and client balances on Excel today. It is built for importers’ and exporters’ agents handling sea, air and land shipments.
How is it related to the Sauda POS app?
Sauda Trade is the second product in the Sauda family. It shares the name, the “seedha hisaab” approach and the team, but it is a separate app built for clearing agents — jobs, duties, GDs and e-invoicing — rather than for shops. You sign up for it separately.
Does Sauda Trade file my GD on PSW?
No. PSW has no third-party filing API, so you keep filing on PSW as usual. Sauda Trade then reconciles against the assessed GD: you type the figures, paste the assessment, or upload the PDF, and it checks your invoice, the challan and the cash you fronted against it.
Can it submit invoices to FBR Digital Invoicing?
Yes, for sales-tax-registered agents. You generate your own token once in IRIS (Digital Invoicing → API Integration → Licensed Integrator → PRAL) and paste it into the in-app wizard. Sauda Trade runs the required sandbox scenarios and, once you have the production token, submits your invoices.
What does “reimbursable vs billable” mean?
Reimbursable charges are money you pass through for the client — duties, port and shipping-line charges. Billable charges are your own service income. Tagging every line lets Sauda Trade show your real profit per job and per client instead of one inflated total.
What happens to rates when an SRO changes duty or tax?
You update the rate with its effective date. New invoices use the new rate; existing invoices keep the rate they were created with, because every invoice snapshots its rates. Nothing is silently rewritten.
Is my data kept separate from other agents?
Yes. Every business is isolated at the API layer, and FBR/PRAL tokens are encrypted per business and never shared.
Close the spreadsheet. Open your first job.
Create your Sauda Trade account, or talk to us and we’ll walk you through it with your own rates and clients.