Instead of Transfocus
Licensing Transfocus for your depot? Own your transport system.
Enterprise DNA builds your own version around the way you book, allocate, price and invoice jobs, moves your Transfocus jobs, customers and rates across, and keeps it running for you.
Transfocus publishes no prices. Its website describes a flexible licensing model and offers a free demo.
- check_circleYour data in a database you own
- check_circleOpen source, no lock-in
- check_circleBuilt and run by Enterprise DNA
What a Transfocus licence pays for
Three products and a pricing engine wrapped round one job list
Strip away the screens and an Adelaide courier and a Pilbara bulk hauler keep the same thing: a job, the driver who ran it, the rate it was charged at and who signed at the other end. Transfocus sells several separate pieces to manage that one list.
A licence you price through a demo
The website mentions licensing models but shows none of them. You learn the cost after a sales conversation, so comparing it with anything else takes a meeting first.
The driver app as its own product
Photos, signatures, GPS and phone run sheets come from the Smartphone POD Delivery app, which Transfocus also sells on its own.
A customer portal set up customer by customer
Booking, tracking, POD emails and invoice history are options switched on for each of your customers, with a custom design for the login page.
Your rates rebuilt in their pricing screens
Zones by postcode or suburb, break rates, hourly and waiting time, per-kilometre charges and each customer's own codes all go into the vendor's pricing setup before a job is rated.
Anything else is a development job
Transfocus also sells custom logistics software. Where the product does not fit, they build a custom solution from its core elements.
No published way out
There is no public guide to exporting your jobs, PODs and rates. Years of history sit in their cloud, and leaving starts with asking what they can extract.
What you own instead
A transport office you can ask anything
Jobs
From booking to delivered, rated on the way in
A job is priced the moment it is booked, from the customer's own card where they have one and your standard tariff where they do not, and the record says which.
- check Late, stuck and unallocated jobs listed in the order a dispatcher works them
- check A job's full story in one answer: its lane, its run, who signed, what it billed, any claim
- check Lanes with no rate flagged before the freight moves, not after the invoice goes out
- check Questions the vendor never built a report for, such as which customers book most at your minimum charge
Getting paid
Signed for, then invoiced, in that order
Money leaks in the gap between a delivery and a bill. Here the gap is one list you can see and one rule that will not bend.
- check Every delivered job still missing a signature, oldest first, with the dollars it is holding up
- check Nothing reaches an invoice without a signed delivery behind it
- check Invoices drafted per customer with the fuel levy shown separately, ready for your accounts system
- check On-time, in-full rates per customer, worked out from the delivery record, with a service report in your brand
Fleet and drivers
The rule book checked against your own records
Driver hours, payload, dangerous goods and fleet renewal dates are checks the system runs on your records, each pointing to the rule it comes from.
- check A run that would put a truck over its rated payload is refused
- check Dangerous goods stay off a run whose driver is not endorsed for them
- check Driver days checked for breaks and the daily limit, and renewal dates flagged before they lapse
- check Written for New Zealand rules; the Australian rules (HVNL fatigue, NHVR mass limits, the ADG Code) are outlined in the rule book, and Enterprise DNA writes them in properly for your version
Owned
Your records, your rate logic, your letterhead
Nothing about your operation lives on someone else's licence, and changing it means describing the change.
- check Every job, customer, rate and signature held in a database you own
- check Zones, break rates or a new surcharge added by saying what you want
- check Invoices, con notes, run sheets and service reports printed under your own brand
- check MIT licence: no renewal, no seat count, no vendor to ask permission
Make it yours
Design your own Transfocus replacement
Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from Transfocus. Try it here, and we build the real one.
2. What it runs
3. Make it fit
4. Your colour
Answered from your own database
Good morning. Here is what needs you today.
We build it from the open-source base, bring your Transfocus data across and run it for you.
Switching
How to switch from Transfocus
In practice, switching involves getting an extract from Transfocus, matching its records to the import layout, checking the results, then running both systems side by side before cutover.
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Request an extract
Transfocus publishes no export guide, so ask them what they can extract for your account and confirm the available format. Request the customers, job history and rate cards you want to bring across. Ask separately about any other records you want to keep, such as PODs or invoices, rather than assuming they can be imported.
- 2
Load the supported records
Freight Ops reads customers, jobs and rate cards in a set layout. Transfocus uses different headings, so the records need to be matched to that layout before loading. If the import process offers a test run, use it first and review the result before loading the records you plan to use.
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Check the import results
Review anything the import flags, then compare the loaded records and totals with Transfocus. Pay particular attention to whether customers, jobs and rates have landed in the right places. Resolve mismatches before relying on the new database for live work. If a record you expected is missing, check whether it was included in the extract and supported by the import.
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Run both systems briefly
Keep Transfocus available while you use Freight Ops for a short period. Compare the work and records in both systems, including new jobs and the rates applied to them. Use this overlap to catch missing information or differences in how your records are represented. Agree on when the new system becomes the source for day-to-day work.
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Switch off Transfocus
When the records you chose to bring across have been checked and you are ready to cut over, use Freight Ops for new operational work and stop using Transfocus for that work. Before ending your Transfocus service, confirm that any records you chose not to import have been extracted or retained in a form you can access.
Where the real effort goes
Most of the effort is mapping your fields and rules to the import layout, and deciding how much history to bring across. The free import covers customers, jobs and rate cards in a set layout, while Transfocus uses different headings. When you have Enterprise DNA run the move, they handle that matching and check totals against your old system before you switch.
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Run the free version yourself, or have Enterprise DNA build and run yours
Open source
Do it yourself
Free
- 1 Clone the repo from GitHub
- 2 Run npm run demo and open the folder in Claude Code
- 3 Type /board to see the demo depot's day
- 4 Map your Transfocus job and customer exports to the import's CSV columns
Omni by Enterprise DNA
Have Enterprise DNA build it for you
One setup fee, then a monthly retainer
- check We get your jobs, customers and customer rates out of Transfocus and check them against what you had
- check Your zones, break rates, hourly charges and service codes written in as pricing rules
- check A driver app for signatures and delivery photos, and a customer portal, if your operation needs them
- check Run for you inside Omni, our managed Command Center, alongside the rest of your business
Questions
Instead of Transfocus, answered
Transfocus never showed me a price list. How do I compare the two? expand_more
Ask Transfocus for its licence cost in writing, covering the TMS, the POD app and the customer portal you use. Set that against owning your system. The free version costs nothing. A version Enterprise DNA builds for you is one setup fee and then a monthly retainer, agreed on the discovery call, and it does not rise as you add drivers or users.
Can I get my jobs and rates out of Transfocus? expand_more
Transfocus publishes no export guide, so start by asking them what they can extract for you. The free version reads a set layout of customers, jobs and rate cards, and a Transfocus extract will use different headings. Matching one to the other is part of what Enterprise DNA does when we move you, and we check the totals against your old system before you switch.
Our drivers use the Transfocus phone app for signatures and photos. What replaces it? expand_more
The free version has no phone app. A signed delivery is recorded as a name and a time, entered by the office or brought in from whatever captured it. When Enterprise DNA builds your version, a driver app with signature, photo and run sheet on the phone can be part of it.
Our customers book jobs in the Transfocus portal. Do they lose that? expand_more
Not if you need it. The free version has no customer portal. Enterprise DNA can build one for your version with booking, tracking and invoice history, carrying your branding, drawing on the same database your office works from.
We are an Australian operator. Does it know our rules? expand_more
The free version's checks are written for New Zealand rules, with the Australian equivalents (HVNL fatigue, NHVR mass limits and the ADG Code) outlined at a high level for you to build on. When Enterprise DNA builds your version, the checks are written for the rules your trucks run under. None of it is legal advice.
Find out what owning your transport system looks like
Thirty minutes with Sam. Bring what Transfocus charges you and which parts your team actually uses: the TMS, the driver app, the portal, the pricing setup. We will show you the version you would own and what moving your jobs and rates across involves. If it is a fit, we build it. If not, take the free version and run it yourself.
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