Leasing and per diem

    Leases that bill themselves from what actually happened

    One lease carries every release your customer needs. Pickups and drop-offs come from the operation, so free days and per diems are counted from real dates, not rebuilt in a spreadsheet at month-end.

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    Krak Stack: a leasing with its terms, free days and containers

    What you can do

    Lease contracts

    Client, quantity, type, locations, prices, free days and currency, on one contract that carries every release.

    Free days per container

    A budget of free days per container across its whole stay, not per month. Change them on the lease and the per diems follow.

    Per diem invoices from real dates

    Per diems are calculated from each container's pickup and drop-off dates. Invoice partially while boxes are still out.

    Every charge from the lease

    Pickup charge, storage, damage and other invoices are raised from the lease and stay linked to it.

    Gate-buy at the end of the lease

    Sell a container to a buyer at the depot gate as it comes back. The lease and the sale both update at drop-off.

    Duplicate a lease

    A renewal or a repeat customer starts from a copy of the previous lease, terms included.

    Leasing order PDF

    The leasing order carries your company details and the agreed terms, ready to send.

    Leasing profitability

    Projected, ongoing and final result per lease, with the per diems earned and the costs behind them.

    How it works

    01

    Lease signed and release sent

    The contract carries the terms, the release books the containers.

    02

    Free days start at pickup

    Each container's free days count from its real pickup date.

    03

    Per diems invoiced from the drop-off

    The drop-off date closes the count, the invoice is built from the lease.

    In practice

    Example

    A lease grants 60 free days and a per diem of 2 USD. Container CSQU3054383 is picked up on 1 March and returned on 9 May: 70 rental days, both ends included. At the end of March you invoice the month: all 31 days are free and 29 free days remain. The next invoice, from 1 April to 9 May, covers 39 days: 29 free and 10 billed, 20 USD. The total is the same as a single invoice at the end, and the next per diem invoice starts on its own the day after the last period invoiced.

    In detail

    • One contract, every step. The lease moves from Initiated to Released when sent releases cover its quantity, to In transit when every container is picked up, to Dropping off when returns cover them, and to Completed when every container is back, nothing is left to invoice and the sale invoices are paid. Nobody sets the status by hand.
    • Free days per container. Each container gets the free days of the lease from its own pickup day. Two boxes picked up on different days do not run out of free days on the same day.
    • Per diem invoices. The per diem invoice lists each container with its days, period and amount, and puts containers still within their free days aside with the date they stay free until. Days already elapsed can be invoiced while boxes are still out.
    • All the other charges. Pickup charge, storage, damage, transport and miscellaneous invoices are raised from the lease and stay linked to it.
    • Storage before pickup. The free storage period between the release and the pickup is billed separately, at the daily storage charge.
    • Corrections. A wrong pickup or drop-off date is corrected on the container of the lease, and the days are counted again.
    • Notifications. Whoever follows the lease is told when containers go out and come back and before their free days end, in the bell, in the summary e-mail or on the phone.
    • End of lease sales. Containers can be sold to a buyer at the depot gate as they come back (gate-buy), with the lease and the sale moving together.

    Connected to the rest

    Releases, pickups and returns

    Gate movements drive free days and per diems.

    Trading

    Gate-buy sales attached to the return.

    Invoicing

    Per diems and charges invoiced from the lease.

    All features

    Everything Krak Stack does, grouped by area.

    Common questions

    Yes. A negative pick-up charge, used when you pay the customer to take a container from a surplus location, is supported on the lease and its invoice.

    Per diems are calculated from the actual pickup and drop-off dates of each container, against its remaining free days.

    Yes. A cancellation keeps the history and can be reversed if it was a mistake or the customer comes back.

    Yes. While per diems remain to be invoiced, the lease cannot be completed.

    Yes. Pickup charge invoices and partial per diem invoices can be created at any time, for the period you choose.

    Yes, if there is strictly nothing to invoice and every container is back.

    Read the guides

    Learn more: Guide: free days and per diem · Guide: demurrage vs detention

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    One lease carries every release your customer needs. Pickups and drop-offs come from the operation, so free days and per diems are counted from real dates, not rebuilt in a spreadsheet at month-end.

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