$75,000 in financial security on the line before you moved load #1. From here on, every rate con, carrier packet, check call and invoice is yours to keep straight. Most new brokers try to do it out of a load board tab, an inbox, and a spreadsheet. There's a better first move.
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Follow a single load through a spreadsheet brokerage. Every striped step below is you, re-keying the same load by hand into another tool, tab, or email thread.
Nine hand-offs, one load. At twenty loads a month that's 180 chances to fat-finger a rate, miss a carrier's lapsed insurance, or send an invoice late. Your margin doesn't die in negotiations. It dies in the re-keying.
Alvys is a cloud TMS where the load lives in one place from booking to cash: dispatch, tracking, paperwork, the customer invoice and the carrier settlement all hang off one record instead of nine copies of it.
Use the link on this page and Alvys' own team walks you through the platform live. It's their demo, not ours. We're not on the call.
Pressure-test it with your real lanes and your real customers' requirements. The demo costs you an hour. Finding the gaps after you've signed costs a lot more.
Alvys publishes no-long-term-contract terms with unlimited users, and pricing tied to how many loads you move. If it doesn't fit a brand-new book yet, walking away costs nothing.
Out of a spreadsheet: every load is nine hand-offs, the invoice goes out when you remember, and the whole operation lives in one over-caffeinated person's head.
Out of one system: you book the load once, and dispatch, tracking, the invoice and the settlement come off that same record.
"2-4x More Loads Moved With the Same Team" and "5-10% Margin Lift Per Load". Those are Alvys' own headline numbers for what customers get out of the platform.
A 4.9-star rating shown across G2, Capterra and Google, and "trusted by 2000+ MCs."
Those are Alvys' published claims and ratings, from alvys.com. We are not paid by Alvys and are not their referral partner. Their numbers, not ours. Make them prove it on the demo.
The honest version: if you're brokering two loads a week for one customer you already know, a spreadsheet will hold for a while. Nobody's bond gets claimed over load #3.
The catch is that the switch gets harder every month you wait. By the time the spreadsheet starts hurting, the mess you'd have to migrate is the reason you keep putting it off. Taking the demo early costs an hour and tells you exactly where that line is for your operation. That's the whole reason this page pushes the demo and not a contract.
There are a lot of TMS platforms. A few things make Alvys a straightforward first demo when you're brand new:
Product details as published by Alvys (alvys.com), read July 2026. Confirm the specifics that apply to your brokerage on the demo.
We are not paid by Alvys today, and we have no referral relationship with them. We're not Alvys, we don't sell or support the software, and your price is the same whether you arrive through our link or type alvys.com yourself. If we ever join Alvys' partner program, we will disclose it here.
We recommend Alvys anyway, because "new broker drowning in tabs" is the exact person this tool is built for.
We are not paid by Alvys today. If that changes, we will disclose it here.