100%
of invoices audited before payment is released. No sampling.
Every Invoice. Audited. Paid. Accounted For.
Freight Payment Inc. checks every freight invoice against your rates and the shipment record before a dollar leaves your account, across every carrier and shipment type. Then we pay your carriers in one run and code each charge to your general ledger. Read how freight audit and payment works and why your freight bill doesn't match the quote.
120+
standard data elements captured per shipment for reporting.
30+
years of freight bill audit experience since 1993.
The Hidden Cost of Unmanaged Freight Invoices
For manufacturers and distributors shipping at volume, freight billing is a persistent operational problem. Carrier invoices arrive in bulk, in varying formats, often with errors. Without a disciplined audit process, the result is predictable:
- Overcharges go unnoticed and unpaid disputes accumulate
- Finance teams spend hours on manual reconciliation
- G/L coding is inconsistent across shipments and carriers
- Leadership lacks the freight cost visibility needed to manage spend
- The monthly close becomes harder than it needs to be
Freight Payment Inc. in Plain Terms
Freight Payment Inc. is a freight bill audit and payment company based in Point Pleasant, New Jersey. Founded in 1993 as an affiliate of Land-Link Traffic Systems, FPI provides outsourced freight invoice auditing, carrier payment management, and logistics data and metrics reporting for manufacturers, distributors, and other companies with significant freight spend.
FPI audits 100% of freight invoices across every shipment type (LTL, truckload, volume, small parcel, air, ocean and international) on a single global platform, catching carrier overbilling, misclassification errors, and duplicate charges before payment is released.
The service is designed to reduce internal workload, improve invoice accuracy, and give management teams the data needed to make sound freight decisions, built on more than 120 standard data elements per shipment.
Freight Audit and Payment Services at a Glance
Freight Bill Auditing
Every invoice is reviewed for accuracy before payment is released. FPI audits carrier charges against contracted rates, identifies billing errors and duplicate charges, and resolves exceptions directly with carriers.
- LTL, truckload, and volume freight
- Small parcel (UPS, FedEx, regional carriers)
- Air and ocean shipments
- FCL and LCL international shipments
Freight Bill Payment
FPI manages carrier payment on a single global platform, supporting all carrier pricing structures and data formats.
- 100% audit prior to payment release
- Multi-currency payment options
- EDI transaction set support
- Sarbanes-Oxley compliant processes
- G/L coding and monthly freight accrual
Freight Data, Metrics & Reporting
FPI captures more than 120 standard data elements per shipment, giving you the infrastructure to understand and manage freight spend.
- Freight cost as % of product sales
- Cost per unit, pound, and cube
- Carrier performance and compliance data
- Exception reporting and trend analysis
- Dashboard technology and ad-hoc analyses
Exception Resolution
When a billing dispute comes up, FPI resolves it directly with the carrier or warehouse, from start to finish, so your team isn't left chasing overcharges.
- Full exception ownership, start to finish
- Dispute tracking and resolution reporting
Why Companies Choose FPI
Affiliate of Land-Link Traffic Systems
Combined logistics expertise since 1978. FPI carries the institutional knowledge of a 48-year freight management organization.
100% Audit, Every Invoice
Every freight bill audited. Every carrier. Every shipment type. Every format. On a single global platform.
Fully Managed Service
FPI is a managed service. A dedicated team handles the audit, payment, exception resolution and reporting, so the work stays off your desk.
Customer-Specific Reporting
Reports built around your data and your chart of accounts, structured for your internal processes.
Decades of Industry Experience
Founded in 1993 with deep experience across industries, shipment types, and carrier networks. A team with intimate knowledge of your business.
SOX-Compliant Technology
Sarbanes-Oxley compliant processes and technology. Designed to satisfy finance and audit requirements from day one.
"FPI is a managed service with a team behind it. That matters when an exception needs resolving and when your finance team needs answers at month-end."
Frequently Asked Questions
Freight audit and payment is the process of checking every carrier invoice against your rates, the shipment paperwork and what actually happened, then paying only the invoices that are correct. The audit half catches charges that are wrong or didn't happen. The payment half consolidates carrier payments into one run and codes each charge to your general ledger.
The most common findings are duplicate bills, rate and discount errors, fuel surcharge errors, accessorial charges for services that didn't happen, weight and class corrections that don't hold up, freight billed to the wrong party, and math errors. Each one is checked against a document: the contract or tariff, the bill of lading or the signed delivery receipt. See how an audit works, step by step.
FPI audits LTL, truckload, volume freight, small parcel, air, ocean and domestic ground shipments, plus full-container and less-than-container international freight. The audit covers every carrier and every pricing structure on a single global platform.
Before. FPI audits 100% of freight invoices before payment is released, so a wrong charge is caught before it leaves your account. An audit after payment works as recovery: the money has to come back from the carrier, and that gets harder the longer it waits.
Freight audit software automates parts of the invoice review, but it usually sends the exceptions back to your staff to resolve. FPI is a fully managed service. A dedicated team handles the audit, the payment, the exception resolution and the reporting, and your team receives clean data and resolved exceptions.
Under federal law, a shipper generally has 180 days from receiving a motor carrier's bill to contest it (49 U.S.C. § 13710) and 18 months from delivery to sue to recover an overcharge (49 U.S.C. § 14705). Carrier rules tariffs can set shorter claim windows of their own, so check each carrier's tariff and ask your counsel about your specific situation.
Accessorial charges are fees for services beyond the basic pickup and delivery, such as a liftgate, a residential delivery, detention or a reweigh. Each carrier sets them in its rules tariff, and they only appear on the invoice after the truck has moved, which is why a freight bill often doesn't match the quote. An audit checks each one against what happened at pickup and delivery. Read the breakdown of common accessorial charges.
Freight audit recovers charges that shouldn't have been paid and shows which ones keep repeating, so they can be stopped at the source. How much it finds depends on your carriers, your contracts and how invoices are checked today. Anyone quoting a percentage before looking at your invoices is guessing.
No. FPI is an affiliate of Land-Link Traffic Systems and often serves companies that also use Land-Link to manage their freight, but its audit and payment services are available on their own. Companies that manage freight in-house or use another logistics provider can still work with FPI for freight bill audit, payment and data services.
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