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The advanced Excel your small forwarding business already needs.

Dadalink replaces the spreadsheet small and micro forwarders run their business on today — fast, simple, and automated, with zero training and zero IT required.

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Built Only For This Stage of Your Business

Mid-size and enterprise forwarders need permission systems, approval flows, and KPI dashboards. Small and micro forwarders need something else entirely.

You Don't Need Yet

  • Permission systems
  • Branch / subsidiary management
  • KPI dashboards
  • Reporting center
  • Approval workflows
  • Complex operation processes
  • Dozens of fields
  • Dozens of modules

What You Actually Need

  • Fast
  • Simple
  • Smooth
  • Automated
  • No training
  • No IT
  • No big spend
The Plan

Dadalink isn't a stripped-down enterprise system — it's a different kind of tool, built only for where your business is today. When you outgrow it, we hope you move on to a full-scale TMS. Getting you there without a spreadsheet holding you back is the whole point.

What Makes It Different

Four ideas the whole system is built around.

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Operation Composer

Trucking, customs clearance, warehousing, filing — combine only the operations a shipment actually needs. Add sub-steps for more visibility, or skip them entirely.

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Dual-Status Tracking

Route Status shows where the cargo physically is. Operation Status shows where the process stands. Both visible together, always in sync.

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One Source of Truth

HBL, MBL, Seaway Bills, Arrival Notices, and invoices generate directly from the shipment record — no re-typing, full CJK support, print-ready every time.

Automation Without EDI

Enter an ATD or ATA and route status updates itself. Operation status can flip automatically off start/complete dates — small automations that cut busywork.

Where It's Headed

V1.0 closed the loop — a working system that ran in production for four months. V2.0 rebuilt the core: richer operations, dual-status tracking, document generation, and finance reconciliation. It's live today.

V1.0
Stable
V2.0
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Up Next — V2.1

Meet James — a new AI assistant built into Dadalink. Paste a packing list, a screenshot, or just type it shorthand, and James fills in your cargo dimensions for you. Alongside James: a refreshed, color-coded interface, built-in email templates, and one-click carrier tracking wherever you need it.

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Dadalink is shaped by the forwarders who use it.

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Template Library

Browse and download community-shared freight document templates, or upload your own for others to use.

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Ready to move on from spreadsheets?

Dadalink V2.0 is live and running — built for small and micro forwarders who need something better than Excel, without an enterprise price tag.

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