Eastern Maritime LLC
Closing the month without the spreadsheet
Launch invoicing and agency statements produced from confirmed trips, with an approver on the last step and the LPO tracked per invoice.
September 8, 2026 · 1 min read
Draft. The customer for this story is [to confirm]; it is hidden on the live site until then.
The problem with month end
Launch invoices are simple individually and brutal in bulk. Each one is a trip, a rate card and a handful of surcharges. Multiply by every trip in a month, across every agency, each with its own terms, and the spreadsheet that holds it together becomes the most important file in the company and the most fragile.
What runs now
Every trip that has been recorded from a signed log sheet is already priced. The invoicing register shows them by bucket: Draft, Pending LPO, Invoiced, Void. The dispatcher drafts from trip data; the approver signs off, which closes the invoice. Rate cards live in the system, per agency, with the normal trip, combined trip, waiting, weight, distance, bunker and VAT terms spelled out.
Statements per agency are produced from approved invoices. Payments are matched back. Fuel bought is set against fuel burned.
[to confirm] How long month end takes now, in the operator's words.