Recording & Comparing Responses
When a forwarder replies to your quote request, you record their offer in LOP by hand, then compare the offers from different forwarders side by side. This page covers both — entering a response and reading the comparison.
You do all of this from the Past Offers tab on the Forwarders (🏢) page.
Recording a Response
When a forwarder emails you back with a rate, enter it against that forwarder on the quote request:
Step 1 — Open the quote request
On the Past Offers tab, find the request and locate the forwarder who replied.
Step 2 — Enter the response
Click the forwarder and choose Enter response. A small form opens.
Step 3 — Fill in what they quoted
- Price and currency — the amount quoted and its currency (e.g. EUR, USD, TRY)
- Transit time — the journey time in days
- Valid until — the date the quote expires
- Notes — any conditions or extra detail from their reply
- Disposition — your own status for this offer: received, accepted, or rejected
Step 4 — Save
Click save. The forwarder now shows the entered price inline, and the quote request's status changes to responded once it has at least one recorded reply.
[Screenshot: response entry form with price, currency, transit, and validity fields]
LOP doesn't read your mailbox — you copy the figures from the forwarder's email into this form yourself. Because you type the values in, any reply format works: an email, an attached rate sheet, or a phone call you note down afterward.
Editing or Clearing a Response
To change a recorded response, open the same forwarder again, adjust the fields, and save. To remove a response entirely, clear it — the forwarder returns to having no recorded reply, and if no responses remain on the request, its status returns to sent.
Comparing Offers
Once two or more forwarders on the same quote request have recorded responses, a Compare control appears on that request. Expanding it shows the offers side by side — price, transit time, validity, notes, and disposition for each forwarder in one view.
Two highlights help you decide quickly:
- Fastest — the offer with the lowest transit time is highlighted.
- Cheapest — the offer with the lowest price is highlighted, but only when all the responses are in the same currency.
[Screenshot: side-by-side comparison of two forwarder responses with fastest and cheapest highlighted]
If the responses you're comparing are in different currencies, LOP does not mark a cheapest offer. Comparing prices across currencies would require an exchange-rate conversion, and a smaller number in a weaker currency isn't necessarily cheaper — so LOP shows the prices as they are and leaves the call to you. The fastest highlight always applies, since transit time doesn't depend on currency.
Next Steps
- Past Offers — review all the quote requests you've sent
- Getting a Quote — send another plan out for pricing