Every freight job in one file. An agent that knows the rules.
Customers, quotes, job files, customs entries, delivery and billing in one workspace, for freight forwarders and clearing agents in Sri Lanka, the United States and Canada. The agent checks the work against published regulations and tells you where it found the rule.
Driving for a forwarder? Open the driver app. Waiting on a shipment? Track it here.
The Aether agent
Watching a deadline
When is the ISF due on a US import?
No later than 24 hours before the cargo is laden at the foreign port. I date the task from the vessel's loading, not from arrival, so it surfaces while there is still time.
Source: 19 CFR 149.2(b)
Ask her something
Read from the authorities' own published pages
- Sri Lanka Customs
- Inland Revenue Department
- Sri Lanka Ports Authority
- Department of Commerce
- US CBP
- eCFR
- Federal Register
- Justice Laws Website
- CBSA
- UN/LOCODE
- UN/CEFACT
- IMO
- OFAC
- BIS
Built for the lanes between Sri Lanka, the United States and Canada.
Each market has its own customs authority, declaration and deadlines. Aether holds the published rules for all three, so a job is checked against the country it is actually moving through.
- tariff lines
- 60,997
- US HTSUS, the Canadian Customs Tariff and the Sri Lanka Import Tariff Guide
- ports and places
- 7,568
- UN/LOCODE
- airports
- 4,570
- IATA-coded commercial and cargo airports
- package types
- 405
- UN/CEFACT Recommendation 21
- official sources watched
- 560
- Customs, tax, trade and privacy authorities, re-read on a schedule
Size of the reference data in the product, counted October 2026. Lanes on the map are illustrative.
- Authority
- Sri Lanka Customs
- Filing
- CusDec lodged in ASYCUDA
- Tariff
- Import Tariff Guide read column by column
- Duty, PAL, CESS, SSCL and VAT recorded as separate named levies, as the declaration prints them
- Delivery order is a precondition of the entry, tracked as a chain
- Export declaration validity of 30 days from registration is watched
- Inland Revenue and Ports Authority rules held as dated sources
Filings with CBP, CBSA and ASYCUDA run through each authority's own systems and certification. Aether records them as pending until the authority answers.
A freight job is spread across too many places.
The customer is in one system, the quote in a spreadsheet, the declaration in another, the documents in email and the invoice somewhere else. Aether keeps them on one job file, so the next person can see what was done and what is still outstanding.
Scan the document. The job file fills itself in.
Aether reads the bill of lading, invoice and packing list and fills the fields they carry. It never writes over something a person typed, and you confirm what it read.
Four desks. Each file asks for what that work needs.
Pick a desk to see what its job file collects and what the agent keeps an eye on.
Sea clearing
Inbound by sea: arrival, free time, declaration, release.
An inbound file is a clearing file and an outbound one a forwarding file, whatever mix of services is sold on it.
The file asks for
- Rotation number, terminal and last free day
- Delivery order chain and its expiry
- Declaration, selectivity lane and every levy line
- Container deposit and empty return
The agent watches
- The free-time clock from arrival
- A red lane with no exam recorded
- Duty laid out and not yet billed back
How a job moves
From the first customer record to the last invoice, in the order the work happens.
- 01
Customer record
One customer master
Quotes, jobs and invoices hang off a CRM account, with credit limits in the customer's own currency and activation checks before the first booking.
- 02
Quotation
Priced, sent, accepted
Build a quote from rate lines, send the customer a link to accept it, and open the job from the accepted quote.
- 03
Job file
Four service desks
Sea and air, clearing and forwarding. Charge codes, milestones and required documents follow what the job actually sells.
- 04
Document scanning
Read it, don't retype it
Scan a bill of lading, air waybill, invoice or declaration and the fields it carries fill the job. Nothing you typed is overwritten.
- 05
Customs entry
Declarations and levies
Record the declaration, its selectivity lane and every levy line as assessed. US and Canadian filings are recorded as pending until the authority answers.
- 06
Release and delivery
D/O, deposits, the last leg
Track the delivery order, container deposits and the inland delivery leg, down to the driver and proof of delivery.
- 07
Billing
Charges and disbursements apart
Invoice your charges, and keep duty and levies paid on the customer's behalf as disbursements so they never inflate your margin.
- 08
Compliance assistant
Sourced, not guessed
Checks your records against the rules of Sri Lanka, the United States and Canada, citing the published source it relied on.
What else it covers
Sanctions screening
Parties are screened against the published sanctions lists, and every result says which lists were checked and when they were refreshed.
Regulations knowledge base
Primary sources from Sri Lanka Customs, the IRD, SLPA, the eCFR, the Federal Register, Justice Laws and the CBSA, kept as dated snapshots.
National tariffs
The US HTSUS and the Canadian Customs Tariff as published. Where a rate cannot be read reliably, it is left blank rather than estimated.
Dispatch and driver app
Assign loads, share live location from the driver's phone, run vehicle inspections and capture proof of delivery.
Finance
Receivables, payables, multicurrency with published exchange rates, and a month-end close that says what it could not check.
Customer tracking
Send a customer a tracking link for their shipment, with its milestones and documents.
From the first quote to the last container.
Sea and air, clearing and forwarding, with the customs paperwork, the delivery leg and the invoice on the same file.
Each company's data stays its own.
Row-level isolation, role-based access, encrypted secrets and single sign-on. We also say plainly what we do not claim.
Read how it worksPlans and limits
The same plans and limits you see when you sign up, read from billing as this page loads.
Questions we get asked
It answers from the knowledge base of published sources and cites the page it used. When the sources cannot settle a question it says so, and records the gap so a source can be added.
Aether records declarations and prepares what they need. Filing with CBP, CBSA and ASYCUDA runs through each authority's own certification, and Aether shows those filings as pending until the authority answers.
No. Third-party connections are optional bridges, and each is named with what already works without it.
Yes. Customers sign in with an invite code to a portal that shows only their own quotes, shipments and invoices, never your costs or margin.
Freight forwarders and clearing agents working between Sri Lanka, the United States and Canada.
See it on your own jobs
Tell us who you are and what you handle. We set up your workspace and walk your team through the first job.