Customer booking meets gate-to-exit yard control in one app

Carriers self-book delivery and pickup windows on a portal, then that truck flows straight through gate check-in, weighbridge, dock assignment, quality checks and SLA tracking — all on one live yard board.

The problem

Trucks arrive unscheduled or in clusters, drivers queue at the gate with no clear check-in process, and dock doors sit idle or double-booked while staff coordinate by phone, spreadsheet and whiteboard. Generic calendar apps cannot enforce dock capacity or track a vehicle through the yard, and dedicated yard-control add-ons ignore customer self-booking — so buyers are stuck choosing half a solution, with no time-stamped audit trail to resolve detention disputes.

The solution

Yard & Dock Appointment Management unifies both halves: customers pick a delivery or pickup window on the portal, and that booking flows straight into gate check-in, security clearance, weighbridge capture, dock assignment and quality checks — all visible on one live yard board with SLA breach alerts and a throughput dashboard your team can act on immediately.

Capabilities

Everything the yard needs, in one app

Every capability below is implemented in the module.

01

Customer Self-Service Portal

Carriers and customers pick and confirm an available delivery or pickup window online, then track every stage of their appointment without a single phone call.

02

Live Yard Board

A kanban board shows every truck's current stage at a glance — booked, arrived, at gate, at dock, quality check, departed — so nothing is coordinated by whiteboard or phone.

03

Dock Slot Capacity & Overlap Protection

Configure bookable time windows per dock with a hard capacity limit and automatic overlap validation, so two trucks can never claim the same slot.

04

Bulk Slot Generation Wizard

Generate a week or month of recurring slots across chosen weekdays, hours and duration in a single action instead of entering them one by one.

05

Security Checkpoint Workflow

Driver ID, vehicle documents and a safety check must all pass before a truck is cleared through the gate, with the officer and notes logged for every clearance.

06

Weighbridge & Net Weight Capture

Record gross weigh-in and weigh-out readings and get automatic net-weight calculation for every inbound and outbound movement.

07

Multi-Stage Quality Checkpoints

Log pass/fail inspection checkpoints per truck, with dock release blocked automatically until every failed check is resolved.

08

SLA Monitoring with Breach Alerts

Configurable per-type dwell-time targets flag at-risk and breached appointments in real time, and an hourly cron raises an activity the moment a target is missed.

09

Throughput & Dwell-Time Reporting

A pivot and graph dashboard breaks dwell time and gate-wait time down by warehouse, dock and appointment type so managers can prove and improve performance.

Workflow

How it works

1

Customer Books a Slot

The carrier or customer picks an open delivery or pickup window on the portal and receives an instant confirmation email.

2

Truck Checks In at the Gate

On arrival, security verifies driver ID, vehicle documents and a safety check before clearing the truck onto site.

3

Dock, Weigh & Inspect

The truck is assigned a dock, weighed in and out on the weighbridge, and cleared through multi-stage quality checkpoints.

4

SLA-Tracked Departure

Every stage is timestamped against SLA targets, so managers see dwell time, breach alerts and throughput the moment the truck exits.

Questions

Frequently asked

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Yes, for yard and dock use cases. Generic Appointments is calendar booking only; this module adds dock capacity enforcement, gate security, weighbridge capture, quality checks and a live yard board on top of the same booking concept.

Get the app

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Yard & Dock Appointment Management

Customer self-service dock booking with capacity and overlap protection, gate-to-exit yard control, weighbridge capture and quality checks — tracked on a live yard board with SLA alerts.

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