Welcome to the Cargospot's Release Notes. This page highlights the latest product updates, enhancements, and fixes designed to improve your logistics operations. Each release includes details on new capabilities, feature improvements, and performance optimizations. We recommend reviewing the notes for each version to stay up to date on how Cargospot continues to evolve and deliver a more connected, efficient transportation management experience.
Release History:
Release v1.5 - January 30, 2026
The v1.5 release focuses on streamlining shipment creation and duplication flows, improving navigation consistency, enhancing operational visibility, and expanding carrier and contact management capabilities across the CargoSpot TMS platform. This release delivers UI refinements, workflow optimizations, and configurability enhancements to support faster operations and a more intuitive day-to-day logistics experience.
Details of new features and enhancements:
1. Replace Layout Left Navigation Menu Controller in TMS
The left navigation menu controller has been redesigned to provide a more consistent and maintainable layout structure. This enhancement improves navigation clarity, aligns menu behavior across modules, and ensures a smoother experience when moving between core TMS functions.
2. Allow Item Selection or Free-Text Description for FTL & LTL
Users can now select predefined items or enter free-text descriptions for both FTL and LTL shipments. This flexibility supports non-standard or ad-hoc cargo while maintaining structured item capture where required.
3. Enable Users to Select or Add Stops During Duplicate Shipment Flow
The Duplicate Shipment flow now allows users to select existing stops or add new ones during duplication. This reduces post-duplication edits and improves efficiency for recurring shipments with minor variations.
A unified +New button consolidates access to Create Shipment and Quick Quote actions, reducing UI clutter and enabling faster initiation of common workflows from a single entry point.
5. Display Item Details in the Manage Shipment Section of FTL
Item details are now visible directly within the Manage Shipment section for FTL shipments, giving users quicker access to shipment contents without additional navigation.
6. Manage Operating Hours in New Location Flyout
Users can now configure and manage operating hours directly within the New Location flyout, reducing dependency on separate screens and improving operational accuracy.
7. Weekly Shipment Summary – Dashboard Card
Introduces a dashboard card that provides a weekly snapshot of shipment activity, enabling quick operational reviews at a glance.
8. Active Shipments – Dashboard Card
Displays currently active shipments to help users monitor in-progress operations more effectively.
9. Other Shipments – Dashboard Card
Provides visibility into Other shipments, ensuring broader awareness of shipment states.
10. Top Customers – Dashboard Card
Highlights top customers based on shipment activity, supporting performance and business insights.
11. Top Carriers – Dashboard Card
Displays top carriers to help users evaluate carrier engagement and utilization.
12. KPI Tile – Dashboard Card – Dwell Times
Introduces a KPI tile focused on dwell times, helping users identify delays and improve operational efficiency.
13. Shipment Tracking Status Flow
Enhancements and Changes in the shipment tracking status to provide clearer status transitions and improved visibility into shipment progress.
Adds a consolidated performance metrics card on the dashboard to support data-driven operational monitoring and analysis.
15. New Shipment Creation Page with Multiple Items
Enhances the shipment creation experience by supporting multiple items within a single shipment, simplifying complex shipment setups.
Adds a dedicated Contacts tab within the Carrier Profile to centralize and simplify access to carrier contact information.
Users can now view and manage carrier contacts directly from the carrier profile, reducing navigation overhead.
Enables users to create new carrier contacts directly within the carrier profile for a smoother workflow.
Carrier portal access is now derived from contact configurations, ensuring consistent access control and simplified management.
20. Simplify Carrier List Page
The Carrier List page has been simplified to improve readability and enhance usability.
Release v1.4 - January 16, 2026
The v1.4 release focuses on enhanced configurability, improved shipment management flexibility, and a more intuitive user experience across the Cargospot TMS platform. This release introduces key UI improvements, expanded edit capabilities, and better data control to support efficient day-to-day operations.
Details of new features and enhancements:
1. Margin Field Placement Enhancement
The Margin field placement has been optimized across relevant screens to improve visibility and usability. This change enables users to easily review and update margin information during shipment management, thereby supporting more accurate pricing and informed decision-making.
2. Persist User’s Preferred View (List / Card) Selection
The system now remembers each user’s preferred view (List or Card) for shipment listings. Once selected, the preferred view persists across sessions, providing a consistent and personalized user experience without requiring repeated adjustments.
3. Carrier Document Type Master Management
A new Carrier Document Type Master capability allows users to manage carrier-related document Types centrally. Users can add, update, or delete required carrier document types, ensuring compliance and easy access to standardized documentation across the platform.
4. Allow Editing All Shipment Details for FTL Shipments
Users can now edit all shipment details for FTL shipments at any stage. This enhancement removes previous restrictions, allowing corrections and updates without workflow interruptions, improving operational flexibility and data accuracy.
5. Allow Editing All Shipment Details for LTL Manual Shipments
For manually created LTL shipments, users can now edit all shipment details regardless of status. This ensures faster issue resolution and reduces dependency on workarounds for correcting shipment information.
6. Manage Operating Hours for Locations in Location Master
The Location Master now supports configuring operating hours for each location. Users can define business hours to reflect real-world operations, enabling better planning, scheduling accuracy, and improved coordination during shipment execution.
7. Redesign the Carrier Page in TMS Using Tabs Instead of an Accordion
The Carrier page has been redesigned to use a tab-based layout instead of accordions. This update improves navigation, reduces scrolling, and provides a clearer structure for accessing carrier information efficiently.
8. Shipments Tab in Carrier Profile
A dedicated Shipments tab has been added to the Carrier Profile, allowing users to view and analyze all shipments associated with a carrier in one place. This provides better visibility into carrier details and shipment history.
9. Shipments Tab in Location Profile
The Location Profile now includes a Shipments tab, enabling users to view all shipments linked to a specific location. This enhancement supports better operational insights and easier tracking of location-based shipment activity.
10. Shipments Tab in Customer Profile & Redesign Accordions to Tabs
Customer Profiles now feature a Shipments tab for quick access to all customer-related shipments. Additionally, accordions across the Customer Profile have been redesigned into tabs for improved usability and consistency with other profile pages.
11. Manage Favorite and Active/Inactive Items in Item Master
The Item Master now allows users to mark items as favorites and manage active or inactive statuses. This helps streamline item selection, reduce clutter, and ensure only relevant items are available during shipment creation.
12. Expand and Collapse Carrier Profile
Users can now easily expand or collapse the basic details section within the Carrier Profile. This enhancement improves readability and allows users to focus only on the information relevant to their current task.
13. Preferred LTL Carrier Checkbox on Carrier Profile Page
A new “Preferred LTL Carrier” checkbox has been added to the Carrier Profile page. This allows users to identify and prioritize preferred carriers during LTL shipment creation, supporting faster and more consistent carrier selection directly from the Basic Details page itself.
The Stop Master creation process now includes the ability to capture contact person details. This ensures accurate communication information is available for each stop, reducing delays and improving coordination during shipment execution.
15. Show/Hide Filters in Shipment List Component
Users can now show or hide filters in the Shipment List component as needed. This enhancement provides a cleaner interface when filters are not required, while still allowing quick access for advanced search and filtering.
Release v1.3 - January 8, 2026
The v1.3 release brings improved usability and data accuracy to the Cargospot TMS platform, streamlining operations and enhancing consistency for a smoother experience.
Details of new features and enhancements:
1. Location/Stop Master Changes (Edit Capability, Activate/Deactivate Location Details)
The Location/Stop Master page now allows users to edit existing location and stop details, providing greater flexibility in managing stop information. Additionally, users can easily activate or deactivate specific stops, ensuring only relevant and operational stops are available for shipment scheduling. This feature helps maintain accurate records and streamlines the process of updating location data.
2. Simplified LTL/FTL Shipment Mode Selection
Selecting between LTL and FTL shipment modes has been made more intuitive. Users are now presented with a simplified option during shipment creation, enabling quick and accurate mode selection to suit their transportation needs. This enhancement reduces errors and speeds up the shipment setup process.
3. View Historical Carrier Data
Users can now access historical data for carriers directly within the shipment manage page. This feature provides valuable insights into costs and other parameters, enabling informed decision-making when selecting carriers for new shipments.
4. Edit BOL Number & PRO for LTL Auto Shipments
Users with the appropriate privileges can now edit the BOL number and PRO number for LTL Auto (Unishippers) shipments at any time, regardless of the shipment's current status. This enhancement allows for immediate corrections or updates to shipment documentation without triggering any status-based restrictions or additional flyouts. When a BOL or PRO number is edited, the system will automatically handle tracker updates and run the scheduler after the creation of a new tracker, all performed silently in the background. This ensures that tracking data remains accurate and up-to-date, while providing users with a seamless and efficient editing experience.
A "New Shipment" button now appears at the top of every page, enabling users to start new shipments directly from the dashboard. This update simplifies the process and boosts efficiency. This enhancement streamlines workflow and reduces the steps required to create new entries, improving overall user efficiency.
6. Integrate International Shipment Document Section into Quick Quote Page
The Quick Quote page now includes a dedicated section for international shipment documentation. This section allows users to seamlessly manage required documents for international shipments during the quoting process. By centralizing documentation within the quote workflow, users can ensure compliance with international shipping regulations, reduce delays, and streamline the preparation of necessary paperwork for cross-border shipments.
7. ZIP Code validation in New Customs Broker Flyout
The New Customs Broker Flyout now includes ZIP Code validation, ensuring that users enter accurate ZIP Codes. This enhancement helps prevent errors in location data, improves the reliability, and supports compliance with shipping regulations by verifying ZIP Codes.
8. Zip Code Validation in Sold-To Address International Shipment Document Section
Zip Code validation has been added to the Sold-To Address within the International Shipment Document section. This feature ensures that users enter a valid ZIP Code when completing documentation for international shipments. By verifying ZIP Codes at the point of data entry, the system helps prevent location errors, supports regulatory compliance, and improves the accuracy of shipping records for cross-border transactions.
Release v1.2 - November 17, 2025
The v1.2 release delivers meaningful usability and data-accuracy enhancements across the Cargospot TMS platform.
These updates streamline everyday workflows, improve shipment clarity, and strengthen data consistency—providing users with a smoother, more efficient, and more dependable transportation management experience.
Quick Actions Menu on the Card View of Shipments
A three-dot menu on the card view of shipments to quickly update status, mark deliveries, share details, or add users directly from the shipment view.
Standardized Item Details Across All Shipment Modes
The Item Details section now has a uniform layout and fields across LTL and FTL shipments, making it easier for users to enter and review item information consistently.
Zip codes are now validated based on the selected state and district in the Add New, Manage Stops, and Quick Quote page flyouts to ensure accurate location details.
Release v1.1 - November 11, 2025
The v1.1 release delivers key usability and data-accuracy enhancements across the Cargospot TMS platform.
These updates are designed to streamline daily operations, enhance visibility, and strengthen data consistency, ensuring a more efficient and seamless transportation management experience for users.
Shipment duplication with customizable items
Users can now duplicate existing shipments while customizing key details such as pickup and delivery locations, shipment items, and other fields. This feature helps save time and reduce manual data entry, especially for recurring or similar shipments.
Navigation from shipment page to carrier profile with contextual breadcrumbs.
From the shipment details page, users can now click the carrier’s name in the Carriers section to directly access the carrier profile. Contextual breadcrumbs ensure smooth navigation, allowing users to easily return to their previous page and maintain workflow continuity.
Card View of shipment details
The Manage Shipments page now supports a card view layout, providing a clear, organized, and visually intuitive way to review shipment details at a glance. This enhancement improves readability and quick reference, helping users make faster, more informed decisions.
Actions button on the Shipment Details page
A new Actions button has been added to the shipment details page to centralize common tasks and actions.
Users can now:
Update shipment status (e.g., Created, In Transit, etc.) via a simple dialog box.
Mark shipments as delivered through a confirmation prompt.
Share shipment details via email with a custom recipient and message.
Add users or user groups through a convenient flyout menu.
Generate rate confirmation documents for FTL shipments directly from the page.
Generate Proof of Delivery (POD) document for LTL shipments from the shipment details page
This feature enhances workflow efficiency by enabling quick, context-specific actions without navigating away from the shipment view.
Search in Location/Stops Master Page
A search option has been added to the Settings → Stops page, enabling users to quickly find and manage locations or stops. This improvement simplifies the process of locating shipment-related data, contributing to better data management and faster workflows.