Country packs and custom integrations

One core, and a pack for each country

Most of a shipping agency's work is the same wherever it operates: the bookings, the containers and their clocks, the charges it bills, the lines it represents, the depots and the surveys. In AVISA that part is the core, and it does not depend on the country.

What changes from one country to the next is how an agency files with its customs and its terminals, and the rules its tax invoices follow. In AVISA those parts come as a country pack. Oman's pack is built in. If your agency works somewhere else, we build your country's pack for your installation.

What the core covers

• One record for each shipment, found by any container, bill of lading, release order or delivery order number on it.
• Demurrage and detention clocks for every container, and a live list of the boxes still at the terminal.
• One catalogue of the charges you bill, and invoices in any currency you hold a rate for.
• Each line's fees and commission, the port and supplier bills you owe, and a port P&L.
• One register of every container you handle, depots and terminal yards by port, and container surveys with coded damage lines.
• Repair estimates and gate moves as UN/EDIFACT files: see DESTIM and CODECO files.
• Manager approval for changes to shared records.

Each agency runs AVISA as its own install, with its own database. The screens and documents are in English.

Oman's pack, built in

• The Bayan cargo manifest workbook for each vessel arrival, which your team uploads to Bayan.
• OICT service requests for the terminal at Sohar, priced from the terminal's tariff.
• One tracker for every port filing, from draft to sent.
• VAT set per charge and shown on every invoice line.

AVISA prepares these filings for your team. It does not file with customs on your behalf.

Your country's pack, built for your installation

If your agency works in another country, we build that country's pack into your installation. We start from what your customs and terminals require: the manifest your customs system accepts, the requests and files your terminals ask for, and the rules your tax invoices follow. Your team checks the pack on your own shipments before you rely on it. The core stays as it is.

Each pack is built for the agency that asks for it, so its scope, its timeline and its price come from that work. Tell us the country and the ports you work through, and we will tell you what its pack needs.

Custom integrations

Some agencies also need AVISA to exchange data with a system they already use, such as their accounting software, a line's system or a terminal's portal. We scope and build that connection for your installation as custom work.

AVISA is a product of BudTech, an IT and software company in Muscat.