Freight broker migration guide
Alvys markets one platform for carriers, brokers, and hybrid transportation companies, including dispatch, driver, safety, accounting, EDI, marketplace, analytics, and integrations. ARK TMS is the more focused option when the migrating business is a freight brokerage and does not need to preserve fleet maintenance, driver pay, or asset dispatch inside the same system.
Current public positioning
Alvys’s official broker page describes an all-in-one logistics operating system with broker load and carrier management, native EDI, marketplace access, tracking, accounting, a driver app, public API, and more than 120 integrations. It also publishes user and commercial packaging details.
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This is an evaluation framework, not a feature-count scorecard. Current contracts, plans, configurations, and integrations can change what either system supports.
| Decision area | Alvys | ARK TMS | Acceptance test |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business model | Alvys supports carriers, brokers, hybrid companies, enterprises, and private fleets. | ARK is designed around U.S. freight brokerage operations. | Split every workflow into brokerage, fleet, shared, or retired before mapping data. |
| Driver and asset operations | Alvys markets a driver app, asset tracking, safety, maintenance, and driver or carrier settlements. | ARK supports broker carrier and load workflows; fleet maintenance and asset dispatch are not the core product position. | Identify the system that will own drivers, trucks, trailers, HOS, maintenance, and fleet pay. |
| EDI and automation | Alvys promotes native EDI, automated load creation, marketplace work, and a public API. | ARK supports EDI and API integrations, but each trading partner and automation must be scoped and tested. | Replay one inbound order and all required status, document, and invoice messages. |
| Commercial structure | Alvys publishes a starting price plus user, division, and commitment packaging details. | ARK’s standard checkout is seat-based; current terms and any custom offer should be compared in writing. | Model actual users, divisions, integrations, implementation, data migration, and support. |
Evaluation plan
Use the same people, source records, and acceptance criteria in both systems. A guided demo is useful; a completed workflow is stronger evidence.
Choose a real lane, customer, carrier profile, document set, and accounting path.
Enter or import the order, assign ownership, and confirm the operational fields.
Test the load-board, carrier, rate, safety, and confirmation steps you actually use.
Validate statuses, tracking, exceptions, documents, and team handoffs.
Generate the billing records and reconcile the supported accounting handoff.
Migration sequence
Confirm export rights, archive requirements, open-load ownership, provider credentials, and acceptance criteria before the prior system changes.
Classify customers, shippers, carriers, drivers, assets, business divisions, loads, and settlements by operating role.
If carrier operations continue, decide where dispatch, telematics, safety, maintenance, IFTA, and driver pay will live.
Document order sources, trading-partner maps, load creation rules, acknowledgments, statuses, and error recovery.
Separate customer invoicing, carrier payables, driver settlements, factoring, and accounting integrations.
Run customer-to-carrier loads that do not hide an unresolved fleet dependency before expanding the cutover.
Data scope
Cutover controls
ARK evidence
Migration FAQ
ARK is strongest as the brokerage operating system. A hybrid company should evaluate whether carrier dispatch, assets, driver workflows, safety, maintenance, and fleet settlements need a separate carrier TMS after the brokerage moves.
Alvys publicly promotes unlimited users and a starting monthly price, while ARK’s standard checkout is seat-based. Compare actual divisions, users, integrations, implementation, migration, support, and written terms rather than only the headline billing unit.
Do not assume so. Preserve partner specifications, identifiers, samples, acknowledgments, status rules, and error cases. ARK EDI work should be scoped and certified with each trading partner before production cutover.
Prove the fit
Bring one representative load, the integration list, required exports, and the people who own each handoff. Leave with documented fit, gaps, and next steps.