Shipping Document Cross Check
BOLCheck: Shipping document cross check. Free to try on a Bill of Lading, no signup required. Runs on Bill of Lading documents only, with results deleted within 24 hours.
A shipment travels with a set of documents that all describe the same cargo. Customs authorities and banks read them against each other, so a value that disagrees across the set stops the shipment even when every single document is internally correct.
Try it: Shipping Document Cross Check
Paste the text of a Bill of Lading, or upload the PDF or a scan. Three documents a month are free and no account is needed.
The fields that have to agree
- · Consignee and notify party, character for character
- · Description of goods, in the same terms rather than a paraphrase
- · Gross weight and number of packages
- · Container and seal numbers
- · Marks and numbers
What this product checks
BOLCheck checks the Bill of Lading itself: it reads the fields and runs the full rule set over them, with every finding tied to the field it belongs to. Cross-document matching — Bill of Lading against commercial invoice against packing list — sits outside the self-serve product and is delivered as a fixed-price integration.
Start with the document that travels furthest
The Bill of Lading is the one banks examine, customs release against, and the consignee needs in order to collect the cargo. Getting it internally consistent is the first step, and it is the one you can take in the next five minutes.
What gets checked
33 Bill of Lading fields are looked for, and 24 rules run over them. Every finding names the field it applies to, so it can be fixed in the source document.
- · B/L No. (required)
- · Booking No.
- · B/L Type
- · Place of Issue
- · Date of Issue (required)
- · Shipped on Board
- · No. of Original B/L
- · Carrier
- · Shipper (required)
- · Consignee (required)
- · Notify Party
- · Delivery Agent
- · Place of Receipt
- · Port of Loading (required)
- · Port of Discharge (required)
- · Place of Delivery
- · Vessel (required)
- · Voyage No.
- · Marks & Numbers
- · No. of Packages (required)
- · Package Unit
- · Description of Goods (required)
- · Gross Weight (required)
- · Net Weight
- · Measurement
- · HS Code
- · Container Count
- · Container Type
- · Freight Terms
- · Incoterms
- · Declared Value
- · Currency
- · Place of Payment
Questions
- What does the checker verify on a shipping document cross check?
- Container check digits against ISO 6346, weight and unit consistency, date coherence, Incoterm and port-code sanity, required-field presence and more — 24 checks in total, each reported with the field it applies to.
- Is my document stored?
- No. The file stays in memory while it is processed and is never written to disk. The result is deleted automatically within 24 hours, and documents are never used to train models.
- How much does it cost?
- The first 3 documents every month are free. Paid plans start at $19 per month for 50 documents. A one-off Batch Pack covers 5,000 documents.