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The Shipping Agent lives under Agents → Shipping in app.dash.fi. This page walks through the layout, how to submit invoices yourself, and what each tab shows.

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Prerequisites

The Shipping Agent is gated on a product entitlement. If Shipping doesn’t appear in your Agents list, contact support@dash.fi or your Account Executive to have it enabled for your account.

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Layout

The Shipping Agent uses a second sidebar with three groups:
  • Overview — high-level KPIs and monthly spend trend.
  • Analytics — Spend Insights and Volume & Growth.
  • Audits — Billing, Scenario Analysis, and Late Shipments.
The top bar shows the current audit status (“Audited”, “Analyzing”, or “No invoices yet”) and a Configure button for uploading files and managing integrations. Tabs under Analytics and Audits stay locked until at least one invoice has been audited. Once an audit completes, they unlock automatically.

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Upload invoices and contracts

Uploading is self-serve. Click Configure in the top bar to open the Configure modal, which has three sections:
Upload UPS or FedEx invoices as .xlsx files. Each carrier’s invoice export from the carrier portal works directly — no reformatting required.The section lists past uploads with their parse status. Larger invoices (40+ MB) are supported; the file uploads directly to secure storage, and Dash.fi validates it server-side.
Upload your UPS carrier agreement as a .pdf. Uploading a contract adds a compliance audit to the Billing view — Dash.fi compares your invoiced rates to the agreement and flags surcharge or rate deviations.Contracts are optional. Invoice-only audits still surface billing errors and benchmark opportunities, but won’t include contract compliance findings.
Connects the UPS live API for delivery-time tracking and Guaranteed Service Refund (GSR) claim detection.Click Connect UPS API to start the OAuth flow. UPS prompts you to sign in and authorize Dash.fi to read your shipment tracking data. When you return to the dashboard, the section shows the connected UPS account and a Disconnect button. Reconnecting later replaces the existing connection.The connection is required for the Late Shipments tab. Nothing else in the dashboard changes when you connect or disconnect.

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How the upload runs

Uploads run in the background, so you can close the Configure modal or navigate between tabs while they finish:
  1. The file uploads directly to secure storage with a real progress bar.
  2. Dash.fi parses the file — invoices become line-item data, contracts become structured rate cards.
  3. An audit runs against the parsed data.
  4. When the audit finishes, the dashboard and top-bar status update automatically.
A progress pill stays visible while parsing and analysis run, so you always know when a fresh audit is on the way. Parsing can take a few minutes for large invoices; you don’t need to wait on the modal.

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Tabs

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Overview

Landing view for the agent. Shows total audited spend, package count, average cost per package, and a month-over-month spend trend. Use it as the starting point after every new upload.

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Spend Insights (Analytics)

Breaks spend down by service (Ground, Air, International, etc.), zone, weight bucket, and residential vs. commercial. The service donut collapses long tails into “Other” so the top five services stand out. Hovering a slice highlights the matching legend row.

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Volume & Growth (Analytics)

Shipment counts over time, monthly growth, and volume distribution. Pair with Spend Insights to see whether cost changes are driven by volume or by rate.

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Billing (Audits)

Actionable output of the audit. The tab is split into two sections:
  • Invoice compliance — ranked billing errors and surcharge overcharges pulled from your invoices. Each opportunity shows an annualized dollar impact and a High / Medium / Low severity badge (High at ≥ 25,000/yr,Mediumat≥25,000/yr, Medium at ≥ 5,000/yr, Low below). A Recovery potential KPI at the top sums the ranked opportunities.
  • Contract compliance — only appears when a UPS carrier agreement has been uploaded through Configure → Contract. Dash.fi compares your billed rates to the contract and lists each deviation with a High / Medium / Low severity badge, monthly and annual cost, and a plain-language description. If nothing violates the contract for the period, the section shows a compliant empty state. When violations exist, a Recovery potential KPI sums their annualized cost.
To trigger the contract compliance audit, upload your UPS agreement as a .pdf under Configure → Contract. The section appears on the next completed audit; without an uploaded contract it stays hidden.

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Scenario Analysis (Audits)

Benchmark rate comparison ranked by dollar opportunity. Shows what your spend would look like at negotiated rates — the same data Dash.fi uses when negotiating on your behalf.

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Late Shipments (Audits)

Guaranteed Service Refund (GSR) claim worklist for UPS. Requires the UPS API connection under Configure → UPS API. Before you connect, the tab shows a Connect UPS API prompt that opens the Configure modal. Once connected, it becomes a paginated worklist of late UPS deliveries with:
  • Status filter tabs — All, Eligible, Expired, Not eligible, Exported, Error — each showing a count.
  • Tracking-number search.
  • Export eligible button that downloads the currently eligible claims as a CSV you can file in the UPS Billing Center. Claims move to Exported once downloaded.

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Alternatives to self-serve upload

If you’d rather not upload invoices yourself, email them to support@dash.fi or send them to your Account Executive. The audit data ends up in the same dashboard either way.