Customs brokers near the border crossing
Customs brokers near border crossings, approved.
What it does
Every year: customs brokers and freight forwarders near your border crossings and ports, the best-rated first, approved by the operations manager, in a partner sheet.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Almaty and Tashkent, find customs brokers and freight forwarding services in the area, wait for approval, then add row in Google Sheets and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
A good broker saves days at the border. The approved list makes it reliable.
Who it is for
Logistics, fleet & delivery. Dispatch, fleet and delivery teams who keep goods moving around closures, weather and ports. Every use case for logistics & delivery
Best use cases
- A cross-border trucking company
- An importer
- A freight forwarder
What each run gives you
- A Google Sheet
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 90 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 2 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 6 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Border citiesWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Customs brokersxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
- Approve the partnersLogic · ApprovalStops the run until someone says yes.
- Update the partner sheetApp · Google SheetsCreate, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets online
- Email me the resultsAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- The xMap Flows browser extension: what is around this business: On a company’s website or a place on a map, one click shows its market and the AI employees to hire for it.
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- What xMap remembers about your company: Your city, industry and what you sell, filled in for you and always yours to change.
- Ask the map a question: How many of a kind of place, how many people for each, and where the gaps are, answered on the spot.
- Geofencing: A virtual boundary that triggers something when an item enters or leaves it.
- How to monitor road closures near your sites: Every few minutes, the incidents that affect your sites or fleet.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
More for Logistics, fleet & delivery
- Daily operations briefing for every hub: A daily operations briefing per hub, with a risk score and alerts for the risky ones.
- Where to put micro-fulfilment hubs: Where to put micro-fulfilment hubs: most people per warehouse first.
- Incidents near my drivers’ zones: Incidents near your drivers' zones every 15 minutes, to dispatch.
- New warehouses and distributors to sell to: New warehouses and distributors, scored, with the operations manager, into HubSpot.
- Road closures near my depots, every hour: Closures and roadworks near each depot every hour, to dispatch on WhatsApp.
- Shops to host parcel pick-up points: Shops scored as parcel pick-up points, with the owner.