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Overview

Cario

4.9

(25)

Pricing

Starting at A$990.00 per month

About Cario

Cario is a freight management solution, which enables businesses to streamline shipping, multi-carrier dispatch and delivery tracking among other processes to improve order fulfillment. Customer service teams can provide estimated time of arrival (ETA) details and send advance ship notices (ASNs) and email or text alerts to clients.

Using Cario, organizations can manage returns and compare costs across consignments or warehouses according to requirements. Professionals can view invoices in Microsoft Excel format, and monitor freight activities from within a unified platform. Additionally, businesses can access various carriers such as Australia Post, FedEx, Northline and more.

Cario comes with an application programming interface (API), which helps businesses integrate the platform with multiple third-party systems. Pricing is available on request and support is extended via phone, email, FAQs and other online measures.

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Cario Pricing and Plans

Starting price: A$990.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

For Simple Parcel Shippers

A$990.00

usage based, per month

Plan includes:

300+ Freight Carriers Available
B2B and B2C Capabilities
Invoice Reconciliation
SMS and Email Notifications
Business Analytics and Reporting
eCommerce and File-based Integrations
Rules Based Engine
Exception Reporting
POD’s and Real Time Updates
Branded Returns Portal

For Enterprise & Bulk Shippers

A$1,350.00

usage based, per month

Plan includes:

300+ Freight Carriers Available
B2B and B2C Capabilities
Invoice Reconciliation
SMS and Email Notifications
Business Analytics and Reporting
eCommerce and File-based Integrations
ERP, WMS and CRM Integrations
Rules Based Engine
Exception Reporting
POD’s and Real Time Updates

TMS Module (Add On)

A$990.00

usage based, per month

Plan includes:

Integrated Transport management system – Cario Connect
Real time route optimisation
Driver allocation of consignments within Cario
Management of Driver runs
Live uber-style tracking of drivers
Sign on glass
Real time POD capture within Cario
Photo capture at POD
Driver checklists including fatigure management and load balancing
Geofencing capabilities

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Cario Features

Popular features found in Freight
3PL Management
Accounting
Customer Management
Document Management
Quotes/Estimates
Rate Management
Route Optimization
Shipping Management
Transportation Management
Truckload Management
More features of Cario
Activity Dashboard
Activity Tracking
Air Shipping
Alerts/Notifications
API
Audit Trail
Barcode/Ticket Scanning
Billing & Invoicing
Carrier Management
Compliance Management
Container Shipping
Customer Database
Customer Portal
Customizable Branding
Customizable Reports
Delivery Tracking
Discount Management
Dispatch Management
eCommerce Management
EDI
Fleet Management
For eCommerce
For Freight Operations
Freight Shipping
Geographic Maps
Ground Shipping
Import/Export Management
International Forwarders
Invoice Management
Label Printing
Live Driver Tracking
Local Forwarders
Location Tracking
Logistics Management
LTL/Shared Truckload
Mobile App
Monitoring
Multi-Channel Management
Multi-Location
Ocean Shipping
Order Fulfillment
Order Management
Order Tracking
Package Tracking
Parcel Shipping
Process/Workflow Automation
Purchase Order Management
Real-Time Analytics
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Monitoring
Real-Time Notifications
Real-Time Updates
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Returns Management
Routing
Scheduling
Search/Filter
Self Service Portal
Shipment Price Calculation
Shipment Tracking
Shipping Labels
Shipping Services Integration
Status Tracking
Supplier Management
Supply Chain Management
Third-Party Integrations
Warehouse Management

Cario Integrations

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Cario User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.9

Ratings Breakdown

92%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.9

Value for money

4.6

Customer support

4.9

Functionality

4.8

Mark G.

Verified reviewer

Consumer Goods

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2025

Great, knowledge team delivering cutting edge system

Great. The team are accessible, very knowledgeable. Much more refreshing than dealing with a multinational.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Depth of functionality. Always pushing the system to do more and more. Really excited about their AI bot.

Cons:

Some custom functionality built for our implementation. Took a while for design but working well.

Reasons for switching to Cario

Needed more depth of features and a stronger roadmap.

Vendor Response

Thanks Mark, appreciate your feedback. We are very excited about our AI also, and looking forward to seeing it in action at our customers.

Replied April 2025

Zoe C.

Verified reviewer

Health, Wellness and Fitness

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2021

New freight system

Really improved our order to fulfilment process. We have saved 2 FTE's by implementing Cario

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to integrate into our WMS, so our orders flow straight from ordering system to fulfilment system. We can now scan and our labels print immediately. Warehouse guys excited with time saved.

Cons:

As part of our go live we wanted multi leg consignments. This has taken a while to get set up. I understand it is complex but I expected it day one.

Reasons for switching to Cario

Wanted a cloud version that integrated with our WMS

Peter D.

Verified reviewer

Printing

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2020

Cario Review

Overall Cario has been good for Printgraphics, it gives us different options of freight carriers, easy & quick to estimate prices, easy to produce consignment labels and book in pick ups. Anything that can save us time and money is a good thing.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The Quick Quote function is easy to use and easy to do multiple quotes

Cons:

the tracking function isn't always up to date

Reasons for switching to Cario

We switched freight company's due to pricing

Scott W.

Verified reviewer

Consumer Goods

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2020

Review of Cario TMS

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Great user interface. Ability to deal with all of our carriers like TNT, Toll and StarTrack through the one system.

Cons:

We should have integrated this sooner. This has saved so much time.

Reasons for choosing Cario

Better user experience. Great team to deal with. Understand freight really well.

Kerryn B.

Verified reviewer

Transportation/ Trucking/ Railroad

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2024

Cario Review

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The the fact that I can use one portal for everything. I can track my freight, invoicing, reporting, all in the one. It can be integrated with all major ERP's. And an Australian owned and managed business with real-time support

Cons:

Nothing that I can see to date. I haven't had any issues with Cario

Vendor Response

Appreciate the review Kerryn. We love working with your team, especially as you push us to be better with new functionality.

Replied August 2024

Eric S.

Verified reviewer

Pharmaceuticals

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2024

Cario is Fantastic!

Helped simplify the management of freight. Everyone now has access to key information and we understand our freight costs in more detail

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is intuitive and has all of the bells and whistles that my team requires

Cons:

Nothing to be honest. Our Team love it If only it could make my coffee in the morning

Vendor Response

Thanks Eric, great to hear Cario has simplified your freight management. Access to freight costs across the business is one of those things companies don't realise the importance, until they have it, and can start driving these costs down. Great to hear.

Replied August 2024

Lisa C.

Verified reviewer

Automotive

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2021

Automated our entire supply chain

Automation of our supply chain. The local Australian support team have been really helpful.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Cario has automated our operations. Rather than manually quoting, booking and tracking our freight, it is now all automated. Cario chooses our lowest cost supplier, and we can see when our warehouse chooses a more expensive one. This out of the box report (lowest cost comparison) has transformed our freight costs.

Cons:

Initially our team enabled too many carriers in Cario, which meant our warehouse didn't run smoothly. We now use between 4-5 carriers and find this is the best mix within Cario.

George K.

Verified reviewer

Automotive

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2023

TMS worth the investment- Look no further.

- Simplified functionality has reduced duplication of functions. This has allowed the team to be more effective resulting to reduction on overhead cost.- One stop shop for competitive freight options.- Simplified interface allowing process automation.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Great functionality, user friendly and smooth integration. Great interface and presentation.

Cons:

Nothing at present- Wish we got this earlier.

Vendor Response

Thanks George. We love that Cario has simplified your freight process, and helped you to reduce your overheads. Great having you onboard as a customer.

Replied October 2023

Matthew A.

Verified reviewer

Building Materials

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2023

Transformed our operation and made transport easy.

Highly valued partnership. functionality. Very personalised

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The product team have worked with our opps guys to get the system working around our processes. Rather than us needing to change our process to work with the system. Lots of functionality. Outstanding support from their Sydney and Melbourne teams.

Cons:

Ideally, they would build route optimisation into the freight system too.

Vendor Response

Thanks for the response Matt. Appreciate the various improvements your team have suggested over the journey.

Replied September 2023

Ant R.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2021

Cario review

Saved us significant time and money, in an industry (freight) that we don't know a lot about

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Agility to fit into our business needs. We needed a flexible freight platform that would manage our many freight carriers and different requirements of our clients. After reviewing the market, we found Cario to be the most flexible option, able to fit the varying needs across our client base. The multi leg consignments feature is a big plus, as this has saved us a lot of money when sending large shipments interstate.

Cons:

It's so flexible it can mean that you spend additional time working out the best process for your business. Other freight platforms were more rigid with their business process - which means our business would have had to conform to that process. With Cario it was the opposite, allowing us the flexibility to decide the best process, but that meant we needed to spend more time upfront.

Reasons for switching to Cario

More flexibility

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