Reddlaw is open to Australian businesses today. You submit a shipment, the platform sources carriers for the lane and gathers quotes, a person picks the option that reaches you, and you pay one flat platform fee — A$149 per booking. Carriers invoice you directly at the rates they quoted. We don't take a percentage of your freight bill and we don't mark up carrier pricing.
The platform fee is charged when you submit, before any sourcing starts. It covers the carrier outreach, the quote sourcing and the comparison work, whether or not you take the option that comes back.
Two addresses, when it's ready, what the goods are, and the dimensions and weight. That's the booking.
It contacts carriers that work your lane, gathers what comes back, and puts the quotes into a form you can actually compare.
Nothing reaches you straight off a model. Someone reviews the candidates and picks the option that gets presented.
You accept or you don't. If you accept, the carriers are notified and the platform watches the shipment for stalls, missing documents and stale tracking.
Being an Australian customer decides where you're billed, not where your goods can go.
An Australian client shipping to Asia is a routine booking here, not an edge case. The origin and destination fields take any country, and the platform plans the legs — road, rail, ocean, air or a combination — from the lane and the load rather than from where you signed up.
Customs comes with that territory, and it’s handled rather than handed back to you. On a cross-border booking you either name your own broker or ask us to assign one, and the platform captures who owns clearance and who pays the duties before the shipment moves. Reddlaw isn’t a licensed customs broker itself — that work goes to a professional who is.
There is one hard limit right now. We can’t arrange a shipment with a United States origin or destination until our US broker bond is in place. Everything else is open, though whether carriers are available on a specific lane is a shipment-by-shipment question and not something we’ll promise you in advance.
The common thread isn't company size. It's that freight is enough work to cost someone real time, and nobody's full-time job is to do it.
You know the goods and the supplier. You'd rather not spend a week finding out which carriers will quote the lane and what each of their prices actually includes.
Freight is irregular enough that no one has a carrier they trust for it, and regular enough that someone loses a morning to it every few weeks.
Shipping sits with operations or purchasing as one job among several. It gets done, but it gets done by whoever is free.
Worth knowing before you spend time on this.
The demo is the real interface with sample data in it. No account, no email address, no sales call.
More detail: how it works, what it costs, moving a pallet and shipping a container. If you’re weighing this against using a forwarder, we wrote that comparison out here.
And if you’re collecting quotes yourself right now, how to compare freight quotes covers the charges that tend to appear after the number you were given.