Comparison
Opendock counts locations. Conduit runs operations.
Opendock will tell you they’re at more sites. They are. What they won’t tell you is what happens at those sites after the appointment is booked — because Opendock stops there. Conduit runs the whole shipping and receiving operation: scheduling, check-in, the yard, and the documentation that proves it happened.
One platform, built as one platform.
Opendock is an acquired scheduling tool with other acquisitions bolted onto it. Conduit was built from the ground up as a single system.
An engineer on your integration, not a ticket.
We forward-deploy engineers to build your WMS/TMS/ERP connection and configure your edge cases. Ask Opendock who builds yours.
Answers in minutes, from people who’ve run docks.
20-minute first response. Every operator on our team came out of the industry.
Already on Opendock? Just export your active and past appointments to Conduit to pick up where you left off. → See how migration works
Let’s take their comparison page point by point.
Loadsmart publishes a page explaining why Opendock beats Conduit. We’d rather answer it than pretend it doesn’t exist. Here’s every claim they make, and our response.
Opendock’s claim
“Opendock covers Europe and Oceania. Conduit is USA only.”
Agreed
The reality
They’re right. If you operate warehouses outside North America, Opendock has coverage today that we don’t. We’re focused on North American and we’d rather be the best system in that market than an average one everywhere.
A dock management system isn't a basic booking page any more.
Customer-level rules, one system
Different appointment requirements, dock restrictions, lead times, and load types per customer, running side by side at the same site.
Reporting your customers can actually see
Per-customer scorecards, SLA performance, and dwell data you can hand to the account instead of rebuilding in Excel.
Capture the accessorial work
Detention, lumper, and value-added work happening at the dock gets recorded when it happens, so it makes it onto the invoice.
Consistency without uniformity
Standardize the workflow across the network while letting each site keep the constraints that are actually real.
Onboard a new customer in days
New account, new rules, new booking page. Not a re-implementation.
Defensible detention disputes
Time-stamped arrival, check-in, dock, and departure records, with photo and document proof attached to the load.
The difference between a vendor and a partner.
Your first 30 days
1
Kickoff with an expert
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Configuration and integration build
3
Site-by-site rollout with training
4
Live, with adoption reporting
Live in days, not weeks
Bring your history with you.
Switching from scheduling systems has a reputation it doesn’t deserve. You’re not starting from a blank calendar, and you’re not re-entering three years of carrier and customer setup by hand.
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Send us your appointment history.
Whatever you can get out of your current system. An export is enough.
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We map it.
Our team maps your carriers, customers, load types, dock and door configuration, and scheduling rules into Conduit.
3
Go live with your data already in place.
Your operation starts on Conduit with its history intact, not as a fresh install.
Your dashboards work on day one.
Most systems need a quarter of data logged before performance reporting means anything. Import your history and you skip that entirely — you go live with better compliance data than you had on the system you left, because Conduit measures things it didn’t.
Send us an export and we’ll build your scorecards before you commit.
See your own carrier performance in Conduit, using your own appointment history, with nothing signed.
See it against your own operation.
Bring us your hardest site and we’ll show you how it runs.
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