Qwess
A shipment tracking and manifest platform for a Miami freight forwarder.
What we built.
Qwess is a logistics platform we designed and built for a freight forwarding business operating out of a Miami warehouse. Packages are scanned in on arrival, grouped onto air or boat manifests, and tracked until they ship. Customers get a simple public search, type a tracking number or manifest name and results load automatically, even from the last few digits, while staff work from a manifest dashboard that shows every shipment, its warehouse, who created it, its shipment date and whether it is open or closed.
- Public tracking search with partial-number matching
- Warehouse scan-in for incoming packages
- Air and boat manifest creation
- Open and closed manifest states
- Date-range filtering and pagination
- Carrier status and staff accounts
The outcome.
Real numbers from the live product, measured at launch and after 90 days.
Full or partial tracking number, or manifest name.
Air and boat manifests managed side by side.
Packages scanned straight into the system on arrival.
Shipment state visible to staff and customers.
Where founders got stuck.
The business was running intake and manifests across spreadsheets and messages, which made it hard to answer the one question customers always ask, where is my package. The system had to handle high-volume scan-in at the warehouse, keep air and sea shipments separate, and let customers find a package from an incomplete tracking number without exposing other people's shipments.
How we shipped it.
Model the warehouse floor
Mapped how packages actually move, scanned in at the Miami warehouse, grouped onto air or boat manifests, then closed and shipped, before designing a single screen.
Search first
Built the public experience around one search box. Customers type a full or partial tracking number and results load automatically, no account needed to check a package.
Manifest control
Staff create manifests per shipment date, filter by today, this week, this month or a custom range, and move each one from open to closed with a full record of who created it.
Roles and handover
Separate user and staff access, carrier status tracking, and a clean admin layer so the team can run daily operations without spreadsheets.
Inside the product.
Built on what scales.
Production-grade tools we trust to run real businesses. Every layer transfers to you on launch.
Figma
Next.js
Node.js
MongoDBLet’s talk aboutwhat you need built.
Thirty minutes with a senior engineer. Bring the problem, the process around it, and we'll tell you how we'd scope the build.
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