The Rating Engine, Rebuilt

A smarter alternative to project44, Banyan & the SMC3 rate API

When a quote depends on one feed, an outage or a missing accessorial costs you the last 20%. QuoteIQ combines direct carrier APIs, your own contracts, and internal rating logic into one accurate, batch-capable quote — and it rates right on top of your SMC3 base tariff.

Audit-grade accuracy, up front — the same engine that powers our freight-invoice audit rates your loads.

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Why Teams Outgrow Their Rating API

A raw carrier or consolidator API looks simple — until the edge cases start costing you margin.

The Last 20%

Accessorials, volume and linear-foot triggers and carrier rule quirks are where a quote and an invoice stop matching. That last 20% is where margin leaks and re-rates happen.

What Are You Priced On?

If your rating is billed per seat or per licence, your cost tracks headcount instead of freight — and you find out how much leverage you have at renewal.

No Internal Fallback

When an API drops — or a carrier pushes a GRI you never approved — you either can't quote, or you overpay silently and never catch it.

Hybrid Rating: APIs + Your Contracts + Internal Logic

QuoteIQ layers three rating sources into one accurate quote — so you're never dependent on any single API being right, or even being up.

Direct Carrier APIs

Credentialed, real-time connections in your name — the credentials are yours, direct to the carrier.

API Plus

We go beyond the raw API — layering accessorials, volume/linear-foot triggers, and carrier rule quirks the APIs miss, so the quote matches the invoice.

Your Blankets + Internal Rating

Load your own contracts and blankets, or rate internally off a base tariff (e.g. SMC3) with your discounts, fuel, and minimums — no dependency on a carrier API staying online.

Batch & No Licensing Fees

Rate hundreds of loads at once. API-first and priced on transactions — not seats, not licenses, not dev-hour change orders.

What is a hybrid rating engine?

A hybrid rating engine prices freight from more than one source at once. It rates the same shipment three ways — direct credentialed carrier APIs, your own loaded contracts and blankets, and internal rating logic on top of a base tariff such as SMC3 — then reconciles them into one quote. The failure mode it is built around is single-source dependency: if a quote comes from one feed and that feed is missing an accessorial, a volume or linear-foot trigger, or a carrier rule quirk, the quote is wrong and nothing catches it until the invoice arrives. Because hybrid internal logic does not require any API to be online, quoting continues through an outage, and an unapproved carrier increase surfaces as a discrepancy against your own contract rather than a silent overpayment.

What to ask when you're comparing rating engines

Evaluating project44, Banyan, the SMC3 rate API or anyone else? Here is what QuoteIQ does, and the question we would want you to put to every vendor on your list — including us.

What QuoteIQ does on each capability, and the question to ask any vendor you are evaluating
	QuoteIQ	Ask every vendor on your list
Rate sources	Carrier APIs, your contracts and blankets, and internal rating logic — reconciled into one quote	How many independent sources price a shipment?
Your SMC3 base tariff	Keep CzarLite / RateWare — QuoteIQ rates on top of it rather than replacing your base-rate source	Does it rate on top of my base tariff, or replace it?
When an API goes down	Internal rating keeps quoting	Can I still quote during a carrier API outage?
Accessorials & carrier rule quirks	Human-encoded on top of the API — volume and linear-foot triggers included, so the quote matches the invoice	Which accessorials and triggers are handled beyond the raw API response?
Unapproved carrier increase	Surfaces as a discrepancy against your own contract	Would an unapproved GRI show up, or pass straight through?
Carrier credentials	In your name, direct to the carrier	Are the carrier credentials mine, or the vendor's?
Batch rating	Hundreds of loads at once, included	Is batch rating included, or priced separately?
Pricing model	Per transaction — no seats, no licences, no dev-hour change orders	Am I billed per seat, per call, or per transaction?
Beyond rating	Same platform adds Live Audit, document intelligence and a white-label TMS — no re-integration	What does adding audit or document processing later actually require?

The right-hand column is a checklist, not a claim about anyone. Ask us the same questions — and hold us to the answers.

Behind the engine: logistics subject-matter experts and Lean Six Sigma, not just software. Want the mechanics rather than the comparison? See how QuoteIQ works.

Start With Rating. Grow Into the OS.

Replace your rating layer first. When you're ready, the same platform adds Live Audit, document intelligence, and a white-label TMS — no rip-and-replace, no new integration. The rating engine is the front door to the whole Logistics OS.

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Tell us which rating provider you're on today and what it's costing you — we'll show you what hybrid rating looks like on your own lanes.