Warehouse Scheduling Software for Food & Beverage
Every minute a perishable shipment spends at an uncontrolled dock is a minute of shelf life lost. LoadingCalendar's dock appointment scheduling gives food and beverage operations precise control over arrivals so product moves from truck to temperature-controlled storage without delay.
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Why dock scheduling is a food safety issue, not just an operations one
At the loading dock, your carefully controlled cold chain meets the unpredictable outside world. Every unscheduled arrival, open dock door, and waiting truck is a risk to product quality — and potentially to compliance.
Dock delays break the cold chain
A refrigerated truck waiting in a queue with its doors closed is still losing cold air — and product quality — with every passing minute. When carriers arrive unannounced and your dock team isn't ready, the gap between truck door open and cold storage can stretch from minutes to hours. That time costs you shelf life, and sometimes product entirely.
Compliance records are a manual nightmare
Food safety regulations require documented arrival times, handling procedures, and lot traceability. When an audit or recall investigation arrives, pulling that documentation from email threads, handwritten logs, and spreadsheets under time pressure is stressful, error-prone, and expensive in staff hours.
Harvest seasons overwhelm your dock capacity
Seasonal volume spikes — harvest windows, promotional peaks, holiday ramp-ups — push dock capacity to its limits. Without appointment scheduling, carriers arrive in unpredictable waves. Your receiving team is swamped, product queues in the wrong temperature zone, and the spoilage clock ticks faster than your team can work.
Unannounced arrivals risk product and safety
When a refrigerated truck arrives without a booked slot, your dock team has to improvise — open a door that may be occupied, delay another shipment, or leave the truck idling. Each scenario compromises either product integrity or dock safety. Neither is acceptable when handling perishables with tight shelf-life windows.
Up and running in three steps
No IT project. No implementation consultant. No training weeks. Your team books the first appointment on day one.
Create your docks
Add your dock doors, set operating hours, and define how long each loading type takes. Takes two minutes.
Share your booking link
Every carrier gets a link to your branded portal. They see only available slots and book without calling anyone.
Your calendar runs itself
Appointments appear automatically. Your team gets notified of changes. No spreadsheets, no phone tag.
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Built for operations teams, not IT departments
€99/month flat rate
Unlimited users, unlimited docks, unlimited carriers. No per-seat fees, no setup costs, no surprise invoices at the end of the month.
2-minute setup
Create your warehouse, add dock doors, set hours. Your first booking link is ready before your coffee gets cold. No onboarding call required.
Branded carrier portal
Carriers book themselves through your white-labelled portal. No account creation, no passwords — just a magic link and a calendar showing real availability.
Touchscreen-ready
Works perfectly on the dock tablet or wall-mounted screen. Your team can check and update the schedule from the dock floor, not just the office.
Real-time notifications
The moment a carrier books, changes, or cancels — your team knows. No more being caught off guard by an early arrival or a last-minute reschedule.
No training required
Your team figures it out in minutes. Carriers figure it out in seconds. No manual, no onboarding call, no IT ticket. If you can use a calendar, you can use LoadingCalendar.
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100+ years of experience in logistics
LoadingCalendar is a product from Cargoson team who have a combined 100+ years of experience working in logistics. We understand the troubles of warehouse management - endless phone calls and emails, loading delays, detention fees and lack of visibility. This is why we created LoadingCalendar - powerful warehouse scheduling system to solve your problems.
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