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Tesoro · Freight finance

Nothing leaves without your name on it.

Every carrier bill checked two ways — against the rate confirmation you signed, and against what that lane has actually cost you. Every payment stopped at a person unless you've granted otherwise, in writing, with a ceiling.

See it on your book →What it does, step by step
A CARRIER BILLCHECK ONE · THE CONTRACTagainst the rate confirmationand the delivery evidence$25 a line · $50 a loadCHECK TWO · YOUR HISTORYagainst what this carrierhas charged on this laneand never on a single priorIT STOPS HERE, AT YOUunless a grant you ratified says otherwise —with a ceiling, zero variance, and a PODThat is the default. Not the strict setting — the default.
2independent checks on every carrier bill
3verdicts on every invoice line
180ddispute window, counted down for you
4bases for the P&L, side by side
6account types in a real double-entry ledger
12modules on one platform

These are things Tesoro does — not results a customer measured.

01

Audit

The rule is printed on the desk.

A line more than twenty-five dollars off contract is an exception. A load more than fifty. Those numbers sit at the top of the screen, not in a settings page — so when something gets flagged, you already know why, and when something doesn't, you know that too.

A line with no delivery evidence is marked a review, not an exception. Missing paperwork is not the same as being overcharged, and the product refuses to conflate them.

CARRIERINVOICEDCONTRACTEDLINESCLOCKApex FreightEXCEPTION$2,515.00$2,290.001✓1Δ0?48h SLAEcho TransportDISPUTED$679.00$561.001✓1Δ0?162d of 180Delta HaulREVIEW$763.00$763.001✓0Δ1?48h SLA✓ clean  Δ off contract  ? no delivery evidence — a review, not an accusationThe dispute clock counts the carrier's own 180-day window. Row two has eighteen days left.

02

The floor

It won't accuse a carrier on one job.

The second check compares the bill against what that carrier has actually charged you on that lane, in that mode. If there's only one prior load to compare against, it says so and stops — one job is not a pattern, and a finding built on it is a fight you lose.

Every row carries its sample size. A twenty-three percent gap with four priors behind it outranks a ten percent gap with two, and the screen shows you why rather than asking you to trust the ranking.

THE WHOLE BOOK, SPLIT BY WHAT CAN BE PROVEN14need a look8 exceptions · 6 reviews57clean against their laneenough history to be sure8have exactly one priorwhich cannot found a finding54have no comparable priorsaid out loud, not scored anywayNine more couldn't be placed on a lane at all.They're excluded rather than compared against unrelated freight —a blank lane would pool them together and every number after that would be fiction.A vendor paid on findings does not build this screen.

03

Pay

Money stops at a person.

Every release waits for a named human to attest it. You can grant the system permission to release on its own, but the grant is an object you ratify, with a ceiling, a zero-variance condition and a proof-of-delivery requirement attached — and the record afterwards says which authority was used.

Factored carriers are handled properly: when a notice of assignment is on file, the payee is the factor. And a release is recorded as a release — whether the bank confirmed it is tracked as a separate fact, because it is one.

Crest CapitalNOApaying the factor, not the carrier$1,450.00QUICK-PAYNEEDS ATTESTRidge Freightclean match, approved, waiting$2,007.00NET-30NEEDS ATTESTTO LET IT RELEASE WITHOUT YOU, YOU RATIFY A GRANTA CEILINGZERO VARIANCEPOD REQUIREDUntil you do, every clean match waits here.The product's own words for that: “and that is the design, not a gap.”

04

The part that will surprise you

It reports its own weak controls.

On the release screen, unprompted, the product tells you that no single-operator ceiling has been set on your tenant — which means one named person could release any amount. Nobody asked it. It volunteers it, next to the money.

Every other system in your stack tells you what it did well. This is the only one that tells you where it would let you get hurt, before an auditor has to.

WHAT THE SCREEN SAYS, WITHOUT BEING ASKED“No single-operator release ceiling is configuredfor this tenant — one named operator may release any amount.”The same screen reports the two figures an auditor asks for, side by side:released by a grant0released by a person1

05

Books

It drafts the journals. You post them.

Every customer invoice and every carrier bill implies a journal entry. Tesoro plans them, tells you what it would skip and why, and files the drafts. Nothing reaches your ledger until you post it.

Real double-entry underneath: debits and credits totalled live, a balanced check before anything can post, and a closed period that stays closed — a draft sitting in one doesn't quietly slip through, it waits for you to reopen or leave it filed.

PLANfrom the subledgersSKIPand say whyFILEas draftsYOU POSTnothing else doesBEFORE IT WILL LET YOU POSTDebits$8,420.00Credits$8,420.00BALANCEDRevenue, COGS, opex, asset, liability, equity — a chart of accounts, not a category picker.

Why this instead of what you have

Your audit vendor is paid a share of what they find.

Which means their incentive is findings, and yours is accuracy. Most of the time those point the same way. The times they don't are the ones that cost you a carrier relationship over a claim that wouldn't have survived a phone call.

A finding built on one prior load.

It goes to the carrier, the carrier produces the accessorial that explains it, and you've spent goodwill to recover nothing.

Nobody flags the bills that came in low.

A carrier undercharged by ninety percent. That's a correction coming, or a service you didn't get. No recovery in it, so nobody looks.

The dispute window closed in March.

The claim was valid. It sat in somebody's queue past a hundred and eighty days, and the right to raise it expired quietly.

A module that works for you rather than off you: it names its evidence, counts down your deadlines, flags the bills that came in low as well as high, and refuses to make a claim it can't stand behind.

06

Analyze

Every number carries the line it's supposed to hold.

Margin this month reads against your floor, not on its own. Budget utilization reads against your target. A figure with no threshold beside it is just a number, and a number on its own has never once told anybody whether to be worried.

P&L on four bases side by side — actual, budget, forecast and scenario — drilling down by account and by dimension, with a simple view for when you just want the shape of it.

MTD MARGIN8.56%against your floor of 10%BUDGET UTILIZATION99%against your target of 95%THE P&L, FOUR WAYS AT ONCEACTUALBUDGETFORECASTSCENARIOMargin analytics reports trends and floor breaches — the breach being the part that needs a name beside it.

07

Five reasons it wins

Four of these are refusals. That's the point.

01

Two checks, not one.

Against the rate confirmation you signed, and against what that carrier has actually charged you on that lane. A bill that passes one and fails the other is the interesting case, and you see both verdicts.

02

It won't accuse on thin evidence.

One prior load cannot found a finding, and it tells you so instead of scoring anyway. Every row carries its sample size, so you know what you're standing on before you pick up the phone.

03

Money stops at a named person.

By default, not as the paranoid setting. Automatic release exists, but only through a grant you ratify with a ceiling, a zero-variance condition and a POD requirement — and the record says which authority paid.

04

It tells you where you're exposed.

No release ceiling set? It says so, on the money screen, without being asked. A system that surfaces its own thin controls is the one you want holding the cheque book.

05

Released is not the same as paid.

The product records that it wrote the release. Whether the bank confirmed it is tracked as a separate fact, because it is one — and a finance system that blurs those two has told you something false about your cash.

08

What's in it

Six areas, one module.

Desk

5
  • What needs you today, then the posture behind it
  • Payables scored against your own lane history
  • Variance at stake, in money
  • Cohorts you can sit in, not just a filter
  • Keyboard through the whole book

Audit

6
  • Every bill against its rate confirmation
  • Dollar bands printed on the desk
  • Clean, off-contract and unevidenced, per line
  • No evidence is a review, not an accusation
  • The carrier's 180-day window, counted down
  • Ingest an invoice straight onto the desk

Prove

5
  • Judged against this carrier, lane and mode
  • One prior cannot found a finding
  • Sample size on every row
  • Underbilling flagged as well as over
  • What it excluded, and why it excluded it

Pay

6
  • Every release stops at a named person
  • Grants with a ceiling, zero variance, POD
  • The record says which authority paid
  • Factored carriers paid to the assignee
  • Quick-pay and net terms, fee stated
  • Released and bank-confirmed kept apart

Books

5
  • Real double-entry, six account types
  • Balanced before anything can post
  • Journals drafted from the subledgers
  • What it skipped, and why
  • A closed period stays closed

Analyze

5
  • P&L on actual, budget, forecast, scenario
  • Drill down by account and dimension
  • Margin against your floor, not on its own
  • Budget use against your target
  • Runway and a 30-day cash forecast

Thirty-two of them. There are more, but these are the ones a controller notices in the first week.

Next step

See it on your book.

Ninety minutes on your finance operation: your carriers and lanes, your contract bands, who is allowed to release money and up to what, and how your periods close. You keep the configuration.

Request a briefing →See Prospero, for the revenue side

Tesoro is the ELYON finance module. Every capability here is live in the product today. No figure on this page is a customer outcome.