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- Automating Orbit with AI AgentsOfficial, open-source Agent Skills that let AI coding agents build against the Orbit API for you — generating documents, configuring products, and more.
- TransportShapeHow a TransportShape defines the fields, rules, timing constraints and actions of a TransportComposer, so every transport is captured the way your organisation needs.
- ProductsDefine logistical products with context, feasibility, pricing, and scheduling bricks. Includes DataPools, versioning, availability restrictions, and utility methods.
- Understanding Products & PricingA concept overview of Orbit Products: a purchasable logistics service whose price is calculated per transport, why a product can show no price or be marked unavailable, and the sales/purchasing split.
- Product MessagesContextual alerts generated by product bricks during pricing calculations, displayed as colour-coded badges in MissionControl and Hub.
- Product MetricsHow Orbit Products surface the figures behind a price — such as distance and travel time — on product cards and order details in Orbit MissionControl.
- Product TestingProduct Testing lets you lock in expected calculation results as Test Cases and replay them automatically whenever a Product, ProductBrick, or DataPool changes — so regressions are caught the momen...
- DecodeHow Orbit Decode turns order emails into filled-in TransportComposers: MagicInboxes, manual uploads, background processing and the review step.
- Document EngineDesign PDF documents with HTML, CSS, and Liquid — data objects, per-shipment tour detail, barcodes and scannable links, fonts and custom typography, multi-page labels, testing, and how generated Documents are versioned.
- Whitelabel CustomisationHow to give Orbit MissionControl, the Tracking Page, Orbit Connect and Orbit Cockpit your own branding, and how to reach a white-labelled login page.
- Structured Data ImportStructured Data Import allows you to easily import bulk data into Orbit using CSV, Excel (XLSX), or XLS files.
- Orbit Plan: Planning Shipments into ToursHow Orbit Plan turns a pool of shipments and a fleet into proposed tours, how to review and apply a plan, and why a plan is a proposal until applied.
- Recurring ToursRecurring Tours let you define a Tour once and have Orbit generate it automatically on a repeating schedule: every weekday, three times a week, or any weekly pattern you choose.
- Auto-Callout: Automatic DispatchHow Auto-Callout automatically offers unassigned Tours to carriers, using Simple mode or a Sequence, and how a won offer assigns the tour.
- Roles and PermissionsHow Orbit blends role-based and condition-based access control — managed roles, custom roles, permissions, and why scoping means some users see fewer records.
- Cockpit IdentifyScan any barcode in Orbit Cockpit to see which Tour a load belongs to: by ORN, custom property value, load reference, or description.Cockpit
- Fair StartHow Fair Start gives every carrier a review window on a fresh offer before accepting or bidding opens — the countdown carriers see, the marketplace default, and per-offer and per-sequence-step overrides.
- Integrated CarriersHow integrated carriers connect Orbit to a carrier's own booking system: direct booking on assignment, automatic status updates and documents, and why they never appear in the marketplace.
- Orbit Resource Number (ORN)What an Orbit Resource Number (ORN) is, how it differs from the everyday reference you see on screen, and where ORNs are used for scanning and labels.
- Calculator WidgetEmbed Orbit's price calculator on your website: installation, configuration options, styling, and where the widget's prices come from.
- Single Sign-On (SSO)Orbit offers Single Sign-On (SSO) capabilities for operator users, enhancing security and streamlining access management.
- Connecting AI Assistants to OrbitConnect Claude or ChatGPT to Orbit over MCP with your operator login: setup values, step-by-step connector configuration, and how permissions keep every action scoped to you.
- Orbit Hub: Links, Flows & AccessWhich Orbit Hub links exist (Hub login, public and authenticated flows), who each one is for, and why a Hub root address can return a 404.Hub
- The AI Model CatalogThe AI models available to agents and the Luna assistant — standard and extended tiers, the transparency tags (processing location, operating company, data retention), the 1–5 intelligence and price indicators, and how the catalog relates to the subprocessor list.
- Property Value RulesHow to validate property values in Orbit — pattern, length and range rules, locking a value after first entry, requiring a value, and the External Check that hands the decision to an HTTPS endpoint you operate, with its full request and response contract for integrators.
- Automatic Tour CompletionHow Orbit can close a Tour that reaches the review phase without findings, the four exceptions that keep a tour with your team, the wait for late proof uploads, and what the tour itself shows.
- Documented Signatures & Delivery ReceiptsHow a guided signing ceremony in Orbit Cockpit captures a recipient's confirmation against an itemised summary of the handover, and renders it into a delivery or collection receipt.
- Orbit Partner Organisations as CarriersHow to book another organisation that works in Orbit as your integrated carrier: what the partner prepares, how to set up the carrier, and which statuses, proofs, documents and locations come back.
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