Cargo types

Settings → Cargo Types (/operations/settings/cargo-types). The list a rate card’s Cargo Types picker offers: General (Dry), Chilled, Frozen, Dangerous Goods, and any you add.

Column
Code	Short, permanent identifier, e.g. DRY. Set when the type is added and never changes.
Name	What staff see in the rate card picker. Safe to rename at any time.
Rate cards	How many rate cards carry this type.
Active	Whether the rate card picker offers it.

Add cargo type takes a code (capital letters, digits or _, up to 20) and a name. Codes and names must be unique.

Edit a name in place, or flip Active, then Save on that row.

Deactivate, never delete

There is no delete. A rate card refers to its cargo types by id, and removing a type would silently remove it from every card that carries it. Deactivate it instead:

• the rate card picker stops offering it to new cards;
• a card that already has it keeps it, shown as (inactive);
• you can reactivate it at any time.

Show inactive lists deactivated types again so they can be renamed or reactivated.

General (Dry) can’t be deactivated. It’s what a new rate card gets when no cargo type is picked.

Cargo types are recorded on rate cards only. Bookings and quotes don’t store a cargo type, and pricing doesn’t depend on it. See Rate cards.