October 2026 ARK TMS Update: Faster Billing, Clearer Cash Flow, Smoother Operations

The work after delivery should not feel like a second operation. October’s ARK TMS update introduces a new, powerful, automation-driven billing experience for managing receivables, payables, documents, payments, and collections without losing the connection to the underlying load. This month also brings better cash-flow visibility, more pricing context, and several improvements that make daily freight operations easier to control.

Bring receivables and payables into one billing workspace

The new billing experience organizes customer billing and carrier payments around the real stages of the work. Accounts Receivable moves from Delivered and Ready into Invoiced or Factored, then Paid. Accounts Payable moves from Delivered and Ready into Pending and Paid.

Each stage keeps the next useful actions close to the record. Billing teams can review required documents and customer pay, prepare invoice packets, send or resend invoices, verify carrier payment details, resolve holds, and move work back when something needs to be corrected.

The result is a more consistent path from delivery to settlement, with the load, counterparty, documents, balance, and billing status visible in the same operating context.

Handle partial payments and bulk work with more control

Payments rarely arrive in perfectly isolated transactions. The new billing experience can record partial receipts, allocate one receipt across selected invoices, and keep the remaining balances open for follow-up. On the payable side, teams can work across multiple carrier payments, group activity by payee and currency, and preserve the individual load allocations behind the total.

Bulk actions can follow the current filtered selection, helping teams move larger groups through review, payment preparation, or recovery without opening each row separately. For ACH workflows, ARK validates payment destinations before generating a batch and keeps the batch, ACH trace numbers, bank references, payments, and reconciliation details connected.

Billing teams still review the payment date, method, amount, account, and allocation before money is recorded. The workflow moves faster without turning payment control into a black box.

Review billing documents with AI assistance

Document review now lives directly inside the billing workflow. ARK AI can identify cited fields, compare document details with the load and financial record, and surface a match or discrepancy while keeping the original source available for inspection.

The AI review is advisory. Your team remains in control of accepting a document, recording a mismatch, replacing it, or resolving the underlying billing information. Processing continues in the background, so a reviewer can leave and return without holding up the rest of the workspace.

Once receivables are invoiced, teams can review customer balances and send collection reminders to multiple recipients. Reminders can include supporting attachments, and delivery status stays connected to the billing record for easier follow-up.

Forecast what is coming in and going out

Cash Flow Forecast brings expected customer receipts and carrier payments into one view. Teams can review projected daily cash, A/R inflow, A/P outflow, and the loads or payments behind a specific day.

Historical behavior can help estimate when customers and carriers tend to settle, while Terms mode provides a schedule based on configured payment terms. Separate A/R, A/P, Daily Flow, and Float views make it easier to move from the headline forecast to the records creating the exposure.

It gives brokerage leaders and billing teams a forward-looking view of cash without separating the forecast from the operational work that drives it.

Add market context to lane decisions

The Market view for available loads now brings ARK lane history, current bids, and enabled market-rate sources into the same pricing workflow. Spot Quotes can use the same connected rate context when it is available for the organization and lane.

That makes it easier to compare recent internal experience with licensed market estimates, ranges, mileage, and trend information before setting a target or responding to a customer. Availability depends on the rate products enabled for your organization.

Make daily load work more precise

Several smaller improvements remove friction from dispatch and reporting:

• Select multiple customers, brokers, sales representatives, or customer service representatives in load-board filters.
• Capture refrigerated freight with minimum and maximum temperatures instead of reducing a shipment to one number.
• See an actionable message when tracking cannot start because the final appointment window has already passed.
• Include the customer reference number in the Load Details report and its export.

Together, these changes make busy boards easier to narrow, temperature requirements clearer across documents and integrations, tracking problems faster to correct, and reporting easier to reconcile.

Open ARK TMS and put the new billing experience, Cash Flow Forecast, and the rest of October’s improvements to work on your next delivered load.