ROL Transport (Website Design and Development)

ROL TransportROL Transport is a freight shipping company headquartered in Houston, Texas. When iaDesign was initially contacted and asked to issue a project proposal, the client made use aware that they had previously hired another developer that could not complete the task. Our goal during this project was not only to deliver the best possible online freight shipping system, but to also help the client be successful by supply ongoing support and prompt bug repairs.

iaDesign was selected to develop ROL Transport’s Online Freight Rating system, because of our previous experience in online freight shipping web site development.

The ROL Transport system is a web-based application that allows a web site visitor to get instant quotes, in real time, from each of the ROL Transport Inc Freight Carriers. The ROL Transport system is very unique because it is a self-contained system that requires no additional software to run. This system can easily be moved to any server, with very minor modifications.

All freight quotes are gathered using one of two methods:

1) Using the Freight Company’s API (Application Programming Interface)

2) By “Screen Scraping” or “Crawling” the Freight Company’s web site.

The following is a Line Item Overview of the ROL Transport feature set:
  • MySQL Database Schema and Associated Queries
  • Instant Online Freight Quotes
  • Member Registration
  • Member Login
  • Member View & Edit Account
  • Member Address Book Functionality (search and display)
  • Member Product Book Functionality (search and display)
  • Shipment History
  • Generate Required Receipts (bill of lading, order receipt)
  • Generate Unique Quote ID #
Back-end Administration:

ROL Transport Inc also needed the ability to administer certain aspects of their instant freight quote system.
Therefore, iaDesign developed a browser-based, back-end administration
control panel. Below is an overview of the administration functionality.

  • Order Lookup: Look up orders by BOL #, Customer Name or Date Range
  • Quote Lookup: Look up quotes by Quote #, Customer Name or Date Range
  • User Administration: The ability to Edit, Delete, Activate and Deactivate Member users.
The ability to edit the following values in the ROL database:
  • Markup percentage per user (optional)
  • Global markup percentage
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