For Vendors · Dock Scheduling
Meet buyers who did the work before the first call.
PreShiftIQ™ connects your dock scheduling product with buyers across the supply chain ecosystem, shippers and consignees, 3PLs, managed services providers, and warehousing operations, who have completed a structured assessment of their requirements. Both sides arrive at discovery prepared, and the match is built on measured fit.
What you get
Qualified, documented leads
Every buyer arrives having documented their facility and door counts, appointment volume, carrier base, load-handling mix, receiving hours, yard constraints, and the WMS and ERP systems you would need to integrate with. You receive their stated requirements, including their non-negotiables, before the first conversation.
Both sides prepared
No cold discovery. The buyer knows what they need and you know it too, so the first call starts where a normal sales cycle gets to on call three.
Participatory accuracy
Your scorecard is how buyers see your fit. You can engage to keep it accurate, because a reference layer only works when the vendors in it are represented accurately.
The two-sided reality this category lives with
The facility buys the software, but carriers and drivers have to adopt it for the system to produce any value at all. Buyers know this, and the assessment asks about it directly: who carries the burden of getting carriers booking through the system, how the driver-facing experience holds up at the gate, and how many carriers a vendor already has connected.
Connected carrier density is scored as a real matching factor rather than a marketing claim, and it works as a reward. It lifts your standing with buyers whose carrier base overlaps yours, and it never depresses anyone else.
How the model works
PreShiftIQ is vendor-funded and buyer-aligned: vendors pay for outcomes, never for influence. One published rate, the same for every vendor in every category.
5% of first-year contract value
- No fee to participate, no fee to be scored, no fee to appear in match results, and no fee to accept a match.
- You pay only when a buyer you were matched with becomes your customer. Nothing is owed before that.
- The rate is published and not negotiated, so no vendor has a better deal than you. No placement fees, no sponsored slots.
- No commercial arrangement alters a vendor's scorecard, match eligibility, or match ranking. Those are determined solely by measured fit against a buyer's requirements.
The rate and the boundary are published at How We Are Paid.
The alignment is enforced, not promised.
Buyer trust is the asset every vendor is paying to reach, so we do not ask anyone to take the alignment on faith. It is built into the platform and recorded.
Matching is payment-blind by construction
What a vendor pays never enters the scoring path. The engine that computes fit has no access to billing or commercial terms, so a vendor's economics cannot reach the match even in principle.
Every decision is on the record
Each scoring decision is written to an immutable, time-stamped audit trail that names the actor behind it. The platform can demonstrate that a score was computed from measured fit and nothing else.
This is what buyer-aligned means in practice: the money never touches the match, and the record proves it. It is the same standard that protects you, no competitor can buy a ranking you earned on fit.
How matching works
PreShiftIQ runs disqualification-first matching. A vendor that does not meet a buyer's hard requirement is excluded before scoring begins, so the buyer never sees a match that cannot serve them. Matching never penalizes a vendor for data we have not measured yet; it gates only on a requirement a vendor is known to lack. Remaining fit is scored across the assessed dimensions and ranked.
Operational depth is scored load type by load type against the volumes a buyer actually runs. A warehouse handling floor-loaded freight and drop trailers is matched differently from a grocery DC running palletized inbound on tight appointment windows.
What you see as a vendor
You see only your own standing and your own leads. No vendor can ever see another vendor's scorecard, scores, or client leads. Every vendor's view is fully isolated.
Overview
Lead pipeline
Scorecard status
Your dimension standing
Upper mid band across the interviewed vendor base.
Lower mid band across the interviewed vendor base.
Upper mid band across the interviewed vendor base.
Mid band across the interviewed vendor base.
Upper mid band across the interviewed vendor base.
Lower mid band across the interviewed vendor base.
Top band across the interviewed vendor base.
Lower mid band across the interviewed vendor base.
Your client leads
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Your matched client
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Client identity
Company profile
Facility profile
Load handling and flow
ROI baseline
Current systems
Evaluation drivers
Timeline and decision
Capability requirements
Carrier adoption
Security and compliance
Commercial
Implementation readiness
Watch points
Q4 peak runs October through December; the first facility cutover cannot land in that window.
Non-negotiable requirements
Real-time WMS synchronization, not batch. Carriers are not charged to book an appointment at our facilities.
Sample data shown for illustration. You receive the client's complete requirements assessment; selections the client marked confidential in the assessment are never released to any vendor. Outreach is governed by the mutual NDA executed at onboarding. Client information may not be resold, shared, or re-exposed to any third party.
Screens are illustrative and use sample data. A real client's identity and requirements are revealed to you only after you accept the lead.
The reference layer for dock scheduling selection
PreShiftIQ maintains the canonical reference layer for dock scheduling selection, with 53 vendors mapped across the category and built to the same independent standard we apply everywhere we operate. Being represented accurately in that layer is how serious buyers find and evaluate you. Vendors who engage help keep their own scorecard precise, which is the fastest path to a well-matched lead.
Getting started
- Create your vendor profile at app.preshiftiq.com and claim your dock scheduling product.
- Complete your vendor scorecard so your fit is measured accurately across the assessment dimensions, including per-load-type depth and connected carrier density.
- Review your scorecard with the PreShiftIQ team in a working session, so your product is represented accurately before any buyer sees it.
- Receive qualified, documented buyer leads matched to your product on measured fit.
Bring your team in. You can invite collaborators to help complete and manage your scorecard, and you control who has access. Every collaborator is scoped to your account only, so inviting your team never exposes your information to another vendor.
A mutual NDA is executed at onboarding.