CargoNext Editions

CargoNext Editions — Community, Plus, and Go

CargoNext is offered in three complementary editions so that organisations of any size can adopt the platform at the right level of capability and support.

• CargoNext (Community) — free and open source. The full operational backbone for forwarders, 3PLs, and shippers.
• CargoNext Plus — commercial subscription that unlocks all third-party integrations (maps, telematics, flight & vessel tracking, on-demand delivery, customs e-filing), advanced analytics, AI assistance, and enterprise governance.
• CargoNext Go — native mobile apps (iOS and Android) for drivers, warehouse operators, customers, and field sales / ops users.

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1. Product positioning

Edition	Audience	Distribution	Licence model
CargoNext (Community)	Solo forwarders, SMEs, evaluators, OSS community	Open source on GitHub	AGPL-3.0 (matches the current app_license in hooks.py)
CargoNext Plus	Mid-market and enterprise forwarders, 3PLs, BCOs	Closed source / commercial bench-app	Commercial subscription + per-site licence keys
CargoNext Go	Drivers, warehouse operators, customers, sales reps in the field	Native iOS / Android (PWA fallback)	Bundled with Plus; standalone app store SKUs

2. CargoNext (Community) — free & open source

The Community edition is the full operational backbone, minus paid integrations, paid connectors, and the advanced analytics / AI surface. Everything in this section ships in the logistics/ app today.

2.1 Core platform

• Built on Frappe v16 + ERPNext v16
• Multi-company, multi-currency, multi-branch via Frappe
• Role-based permissions, fixtures shipped (role.json, custom_html_block.json)
• Web portals: /transport-jobs, /warehouse-jobs, /stock-balance, /warehousing-portal
• Wiki documentation set under logistics/wiki_content/

2.2 Transport

• Transport Order, Transport Job, Transport Plan, Run Sheet, Transport Leg, Transport Consolidation
• Vehicle, Driver, Transport Company, Transport Terminal masters
• Capacity Reservation, Scheduling Constraints, Truck Bans, Plate Coding, Ad-hoc Factors
• Proof of Delivery (signature, photo, timestamp)
• Run Sheet Scan page
• Internal job creation from source, multi-leg routing
• Customer transport portal

2.3 Warehousing

• Inbound, Release, Transfer, Stocktake, VAS Orders
• Warehouse Job, Periodic Billing, Warehouse Contract
• Storage Location / Type / Environment, Handling Units, Putaway, Gate Pass
• Plate Scanner page, Count Sheet page
• Warehouse Stock Ledger, Storage Occupancy

2.4 Freight operations

• Sea Freight: Sea Booking, Sea Shipment, Sea Consolidation, Master Bill, Vessel, Shipping Line, CTO, Container Yard
• Air Freight: Air Booking, Air Shipment, Air Consolidation, MAWB, Airline, ULD, Dangerous Goods Declaration, Flight Route, Flight Schedule (manual entry)
• Container Management

2.5 Customs

• Declaration, Declaration Order, Permit Application, Permit Type, Exemption Certificate
• Commercial Invoice charges & lines, Commodity master, Issuing Authority, Customs Authority

2.6 Pricing Center

• Sales Quote (separate billings per service)
• Tariff, Transport / Sea / Air / Warehousing / Customs Rate
• Cost Sheet, Change Request, Transport Lane / Zone, Weight / Qty Breaks
• Source / Operational Exchange Rate (manual entry of FX in Community)

2.7 Job Management

• Job Number, Profit Center
• Recognition Policy Settings (one per company), Recognition Date Basis
• WIP / Accrual postings, Reversal on invoicing
• Profitability dialog on jobs

2.8 Cross-cutting

• Document Management (Document List Template, milestone templates, auto-populate)
• Milestone Tracking with date-based sync
• Lifecycle Templates & Stages
• Credit Management (Credit Status on Customer, Credit Hold Lift Request, hold rules per DocType)
• Cash Advance (driver advance + liquidation)
• Invoice Integration hooks (PI / SI lifecycle, WIP / accrual reversal, GL dimensions)
• Intercompany Billing & relationships (Journal Entry vs SI / PI)
• Special Projects (lifecycle, scoping, milestones, resources, deliveries)
• Exhibits (exhibit / docket lifecycle for event logistics)
• High Value (HV brand tracking)
• Sustainability (carbon footprint, energy, emission factors, goals, compliance — calculation engine only, no external auto-fetch)
• Netting (settlement groups, intercompany netting)
• Standard reports per module (executive snapshot, branch performance, owner workload, aging backlog, concentration views)

2.9 Limits in Community

• Maps: only OSM Nominatim forward-geocoding; no commercial routing provider keys
• Telematics: only the open Traccar adapter is enabled; commercial providers are present in source but gated off
• Flight tracking: only manual Flight Schedule entry; the OpenSky, AviationStack, AviationEdge, and ADS-B connectors and the */10 * * * * sync_active_flights scheduler job are disabled by default
• Vessel tracking: providers exist (vessel_tracking/) but are gated off
• ODDS / last-mile dispatch: Lalamove, Transportify, Pandago, GrabExpress, NinjaVan adapters are not callable in Community
• Customs e-filings: US ISF, US AMS, JP AFR, CA eManifest, Global Manifest — UI only, no live submission
• IATA Cargo-XML: queue tables exist; transmission disabled
• Mobile apps: not included (use desk pages and portal via browser only)
• Telemetry / usage analytics: none collected

3. CargoNext Plus — premium add-on edition

Plus is an additive bench-app that activates the gated capabilities and adds enterprise-grade tooling on top of a Community install. Everything in Community remains; Plus turns on connectors, advanced analytics, AI, and governance.

3.1 Maps & geocoding integrations

• Google Maps Platform (Geocoding, Routes, Distance Matrix, Places, Static Maps)
• Mapbox (Geocoding, Directions, Matrix, Static Tiles)
• HERE Maps (Geocoding, Routing, Truck Routing, Traffic)
• OSRM self-hosted profile support
• Address auto-geocoding on save (with provider failover)
• Service-area, zone, and isochrone tooling for the Pricing Center

3.2 Telematics integrations

• Geotab, Samsara, Wialon, Remora, Traccar Pro, and the Custom webhook adapter — fully licensed and wired to logistics/transport/telematics/ingest.py and resolve.py
• Live vehicle position on Transport Job, Run Sheet, and dispatcher map
• Driver behaviour, harsh-braking, idling, geofencing alerts
• Auto-stamp Transport Leg pick_* / drop_* events from telemetry

3.3 Flight tracking integrations

• OpenSky, AviationStack, Aviation Edge, ADS-B Aggregator connectors enabled
• Scheduled sync_active_flights (10-minute cron) and update_air_freight_jobs_with_flight_status (hourly) jobs activated
• Flight Schedule master data sync, Flight Schedule Sync Log
• Auto status update on Air Booking / Air Shipment milestones

3.4 Vessel tracking integrations

• VesselFinder, VesselAPI, Marinesia providers enabled
• Live AIS position, ETA prediction, port-call detection
• Auto status update on Sea Booking / Sea Shipment / Master Bill

3.5 On-demand delivery (ODDS) integrations

• Lalamove, Transportify, Pandago, GrabExpress, NinjaVan quotation, order placement, webhook updates
• ODDS Order / Quotation desk doctypes activated
• Auto-cost back to Transport Job and Sales Quote

3.6 Customs e-filing connectors

• US ISF (Importer Security Filing)
• US AMS (Automated Manifest System)
• JP AFR (Advance Filing Rules)
• CA eManifest (CBSA)
• Global Manifest carrier dispatch
• IATA Cargo-XML (XFWB, XFZB, XFFM, status messages)
• ACI / ACE / ENS extensions on the roadmap

3.7 Sustainability — automated

• Carbon Footprint auto-calculation per shipment using GLEC and ISO 14083 factors
• Emission factor library refresh
• ESG reporting packs (CSRD, SECR, SBTi, CDP exports)
• Sustainability Goal forecasting and reduction-pathway modeller

3.8 Advanced pricing & finance

• AI Rate Recommendation on Sales Quote (historical Tariff plus Job profitability)
• Operational FX auto-fetch from external sources (Open Exchange Rates, ECB, custom Exchange Rate Source connectors)
• Margin guardrails and approval workflows on Sales Quote
• Surcharge automation (fuel, peak season, currency)
• Auto-cost re-allocation across Internal Jobs / Intercompany

3.9 Advanced job intelligence

• ETA prediction (ML model trained on Transport Leg history and telematics)
• Exception management dashboard (delay, dwell, demurrage risk)
• Auto-milestone inference from telematics / AIS / ADS-B
• Recognition Policy auto-tuning across companies

3.10 Branded customer & partner portal (Plus)

• White-label theming and custom domains for the Customer Portal
• Live shipment tracking map (web)
• Quote-to-book self-service for customers
• Document e-signing on portal (POD, BL, AWB acceptance)
• Multi-language portal (EN, ES, CN, JP, AR, FR, PT and more)

3.11 Analytics & data

• Embedded BI dashboards (per branch / service / customer)
• Scheduled report distribution and Slack / Teams alerts
• Data warehouse exports (BigQuery, Snowflake, Postgres replica)
• Webhook & event bus for all logistics doctypes

3.12 Enterprise governance

• SSO (SAML / OIDC / Azure AD / Okta / Google Workspace)
• SCIM user provisioning
• Field-level audit trail beyond Frappe's default
• Configurable approval workflows builder (visual)
• Data residency / per-region hosting controls

3.13 Premium support

• 24×7 priority support with SLA
• Dedicated success manager
• Quarterly release-pinning and long-term-support (LTS) channel
• Premium connectors maintenance

4. CargoNext Go — mobile apps

A native mobile suite (iOS and Android) talking to CargoNext via the whitelisted APIs already in logistics/transport/api.py, logistics/warehousing/api.py, and logistics/document_management/api.py. Ships as four role-based apps under one umbrella.

4.1 CargoNext Go · Driver

Targets the driver-mobile API surface already proven by logistics/transport/doctype/transport_leg/test_driver_mobile_api.py — fields such as pick_latitude, pick_longitude, pick_photo, drop_photo, pick_signed_at, drop_signed_at.

• Run Sheet view with assigned legs for the day
• Turn-by-turn navigation (Google / Apple Maps deep-link in Go; embedded map in Go + Plus)
• Arrival / departure GPS auto-stamping
• Pickup & drop photo capture, customer / consignee signature pad
• Notes, exception codes, damage capture
• Proof of Delivery generation and offline upload queue
• Cash-on-delivery and Cash Advance liquidation entry
• Plate Coding / Truck Ban advisories
• Hours-of-service / break timer
• Push notifications (job assigned, schedule change, route deviation)

4.2 CargoNext Go · Warehouse

Built on logistics/warehousing/api.py and the existing Plate Scanner / Count Sheet pages.

• Inbound receiving with barcode / QR scan, handling-unit creation
• Putaway with location scan and capacity check
• Picking / Release with wave + task lists
• Stocktake / Count Sheet on phone or rugged scanner
• VAS Order execution (step-by-step instructions with photo proof)
• Gate Pass issuance with QR check-in / out
• Plate Scanner for truck arrivals
• Offline-first with sync on reconnection

4.3 CargoNext Go · Customer

For BCOs and shippers.

• Live shipment tracking (Transport, Sea, Air) on a map
• Document inbox: BL, AWB, Declaration, Invoice
• Quote request and acceptance
• Stock Balance view for warehouse customers
• Milestone timeline with push alerts
• Booking creation for repeat lanes
• E-sign POD and invoice approvals
• In-app chat with operations

4.4 CargoNext Go · Sales & Ops Field

For commercial reps and ops supervisors.

• Sales Quote drafting on the go with the same Pricing Center logic
• Customer visits log (CRM-style) with geotag
• Job & shipment search with one-tap drill-down
• Approvals: credit hold lift requests, change requests, cash advance
• Live dashboards (P&L by job, WIP aging, exception count)

4.5 Platform features (Go umbrella)

• Biometric login, MFA, device enrollment
• End-to-end encryption of media at rest
• Background sync, offline cache (SQLite + queued mutations)
• Push via FCM / APNs (provisioned through Plus)
• Localisation (EN, ES, CN, JP, AR, FR, PT)
• Dark mode, accessibility (WCAG 2.1)
• Tablet layouts for dispatcher and warehouse manager
• App-store distribution + MDM / Intune support for enterprise

4.6 Go capability matrix

App	With Community	With Plus
Go · Driver	Manual leg updates, manual signature / photo	Auto-stamp from telematics, live map with traffic, route optimisation
Go · Warehouse	Scan + sync	Real-time slotting AI, voice-pick, RFID gateway
Go · Customer	List + simple status	Live map (vessel / flight / telematics), branded skin, e-sign
Go · Sales / Ops	Forms + approvals	AI rate suggestion, predictive ETAs, BI cards

5. At-a-glance comparison

Capability area	Community	Plus	Go
Transport / Warehousing / Customs / Sea / Air ops	Full	Full	Mobile UX
Sales Quote, Tariff, Cost Sheet	Full	+ AI pricing, FX auto-fetch	Quote on mobile
Job Mgmt, WIP / Accrual, Recognition	Full	+ auto-tuning, audit	View only
Document & Milestone management	Full	+ e-sign, AI extraction	Capture
Credit, Cash Advance, Netting, Intercompany	Full	+ approval workflows	Approvals
Sustainability	Manual factors	Auto + ESG packs	Capture activity
Customer Portal (web)	Standard	White-label, live tracking	–
Maps / geocoding	OSM Nominatim	Google / Mapbox / HERE / OSRM	Embedded maps
Telematics	Traccar OSS only	Geotab, Samsara, Wialon, Remora, custom	Driver mobile feed
Flight tracking	Manual	OpenSky, AviationStack, AviationEdge, ADS-B	Live in-app
Vessel / AIS	Manual	VesselFinder, VesselAPI, Marinesia	Live in-app
ODDS / last-mile	Stubs only	Lalamove, Transportify, Pandago, Grab, NinjaVan	Book in-app
Customs e-filings (ISF / AMS / AFR / eManifest / Cargo-XML)	UI only	Live transmission	Status only
SSO / SCIM / advanced audit	–	Yes	–
Embedded BI / data warehouse export	–	Yes	KPI cards
Mobile apps (iOS / Android)	–	–	Yes
Support	Community forum, GitHub issues	24×7 SLA + CSM	Bundled with Plus
Source	Public (AGPL-3.0)	Closed source	Closed source

6. Implementation notes (for the engineering team)

1. Gating mechanism — introduce a CargoNext Edition single doctype (Community / Plus / Go-only) and an is_plus_enabled() helper. Gate the connector code paths in logistics/transport/telematics/, logistics/air_freight/flight_schedules/, logistics/sea_freight/vessel_tracking/, logistics/transport/odds/, and logistics/customs/api/ behind it.
2. Repo split — keep logistics/ as the OSS app and create logistics_plus/ as the commercial bench-app that registers connectors and adds advanced doctypes. This avoids cross-licence contamination of the current AGPL-3.0 codebase.
3. Mobile API contract — the work already done in logistics/transport/api.py (RUN_SHEET_BUNDLE_LEG_FIELDS, DRIVER_LEG_UPDATE_FIELDS, _enrich_leg_for_mobile) is the right pattern. Extend the same explicit allowlist / enrichment style to warehouse, customer, and sales mobile APIs before building the Go apps.
4. Marketing surface — update README.md and add a Wiki landing page that leads with the three-edition story so GitHub visitors immediately understand Community vs Plus vs Go.

7. Related articles

• Recent Platform Updates
• CargoNext v1 — Release Notes
• Getting Started
• Customer Portal
• Transport Module
• Warehousing Module
• Air Freight Module
• Sea Freight Module
• Customs Module
• Sustainability Module