How to open a request on Business Hub?

Modified on Thu, 15 Aug, 2024 at 3:18 PM

The Business Hub is the place on Parnity designed for you to add your business requests to our community and receive quotations on an average of 6 hours. Way faster than doing it via email, right?

If you want to know more about our Business Hub, please visit this article on What is the Business Hub.

Opening a request on Business Hub

Opening a quotation request inside Parnity’s Business Hub is faster and easier than you ever thought, it takes about 30 seconds

To open a new request:

1 - Go to Business Hub, on the left-hand side, click on the “Business Hub” icon

2 - Click on “+ New Request”

3 - Add your “Due Date”, which is the maximum of days you are willing to receive quotes

4 - Choose your “Transportation Type”

5 - Choose the “Pick up from”, which is the location the cargo is going to be picked up from

6 - Add the port name/code if you have chosen FOB or FCA Port, or the city and country if you have chosen ExWorks. In both of them add your “Ready Date”, the date the cargo will be ready for pick up

7 - Define your “Deliver to” which is where the cargo will be delivered, if is a Seaport or a Final Address. In the case of Seaport add the port name/code, in the case of Final Address, add city, country, and zip code

8 - Fill out the “About the Shipment” with all the information required, the more complete, the faster forwarders can quote your request

9 - Add all the details asked on "Details"

10 - Check the boxes below “Details” if your cargo matches any description.

11 - Insert any additional details in the field "Insert notes and files" and attach any files that will help the agent send their best quote

12 - Make sure you have all the information correctly then click on “Publish Request” when all is filled and ready to be published with the community

After you publish your quotation request, the members of the target location will be notified, and soon you will start receiving quotes.

To learn how to check the quotes received on your requests and how to proceed, click here.

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