Bidding modes for freight offers

Unlike transport offers that are always ads, freight offers have 4 bidding modes:

Ad:

• The "old-fashioned"‎ offer mode;

• Cannot accept bids;

• Potential counterparties can contact you via messenger, phone number, email and other contacts methods specified in your profile.

Bargain:

• Bargain is the most fair and flexible bidding mode when both cost and transportation conditions matter;

• The bidder has 4 statuses for their active bid: "Best", "Among the best", "Mid" and "Losing";

• Each user can make an unlimited number of bids, but only the last bid will always be active;

• Even if the user is a member of several companies, they can also submit an unlimited number of bids;

• The price specified in the offer is a guideline for the participants in the bidding;

• You decide the winner yourself.

Auction:

• A mode, where each participant can offer their own bid;

• Suitable when you only care about the cost of transportation;

• The lowest bid wins automatically when the auction duration time ends;

• You can select the winner manually and the offer will be marked as "Winner selected manually";

• If the offer does not specify the price, then the first bid is set according to the initial bid;

• If the price is specified in the offer, the first bid must either match this price or be lower;

• There are 2 statuses of active bids in the auction: "Best" and "Outbid";

• All subsequent bids must differ from the current best by the minimum step specified by the shipper when creating an offer.

Fix:

• Offer mode, where each participant competes for transportation by offering transportation conditions;

• The cost of transportation is fixed and is set by the owner of the offer;

• When you have a fixed price for transportation, no one can negotiate on the price;

• If "Book now" setting is not disabled, then fix allows you to conduct competition between participants, but only on the terms of transportation;

• This mode is ideal for holding a competition among your carriers with a single contract price.

Fix with the indicator "Book now".

This function is used in two cases:

1. The first one to agree wins the transportation deal;

2. If you only sent an offer to one partner, then it is a direct assignment of the offer to the partner,

   as in the case of a contract plan.