About
We make dock scheduling something a carrier can do in a minute.
SimpleDock is dock appointment scheduling software for warehouses, distribution centers, and 3PLs. An operator sets up their facility in a few minutes and shares one booking link. Carriers and drivers book their own dock appointments — no account, no app, no login.
What we build
Every warehouse that receives freight has to answer the same question dozens of times a day: when should this truck show up? Most answer it with a spreadsheet, a shared inbox, and a phone that rings all morning. The cost shows up as trucks queued at the gate, drivers burning hours of service in the lot, detention invoices nobody budgeted for, and a receiving team that cannot plan labor because it does not know what is coming.
SimpleDock turns that into a booking link. Behind the link sits the facility’s real constraints — operating hours, door count, door capacity, slots per hour, appointment duration by load type, buffers between trucks, and how much notice you need. Carriers see only the times that actually work. What the warehouse gets back is a schedule it can staff against.
Around the booking itself we handle the rest of the loop: approvals when a facility wants to review requests before confirming, driver check-in and dwell-time tracking, custom booking questions for PO numbers and BOLs, email and SMS notifications, a live TV-mode dock board for the warehouse floor, and integrations with Google Calendar, Slack, Zapier, and signed webhooks.
Who it is for
SimpleDock is built for the people who own the receiving schedule — receiving managers, warehouse supervisors, and dock schedulers — and for the carriers and dispatchers booking into them. Typical facilities include:
- Third-party logistics (3PL) warehouses running inbound and outbound for many shippers at once
- Food and beverage plants where receiving windows are tied to production schedules
- Cold storage facilities where dwell time on the dock is a product-quality problem
- Retail and e-commerce distribution centers with heavy inbound seasonality
- Manufacturers coordinating raw-material deliveries against a line schedule
- Building-materials yards and lumber distributors with mixed truck and trailer traffic
Facilities running five trucks a day and facilities running a hundred use the same product. The free tier covers a single location; paid plans add more locations plus the API, MCP server, webhooks, and integrations.
How we build it
The carrier should not have to sign up
Requiring carriers to create an account is the single biggest reason dock scheduling software fails to get adopted. A dispatcher juggling forty warehouses will not maintain forty logins, so they call instead — and you are back to the phone. Every SimpleDock booking happens through a link. The carrier opens it, picks a time, and is done.
Setup measured in minutes, not implementations
A facility should be live the same day someone decides to try it. There is no onboarding project, no professional services engagement, and no minimum contract. Add your doors, your hours, and your appointment types, then share the link. If it takes longer than a coffee break, we have built it wrong.
The rules live in the software, not in someone's head
Operating hours, minimum notice, appointment duration, buffers between trucks, slots per hour, and per-door capacity are enforced at booking time. That is the difference between a calendar and a scheduling system: the schedule that comes out the other end is one the warehouse can actually run, because nothing was booked that the dock cannot absorb.
Agent-accessible by default
Anything a person can do in the dashboard, a program can do through the REST API or the MCP server — with the same permissions and the same rules. Increasingly the thing booking a dock appointment is not a person at a keyboard but software acting on their behalf, and it should not have to scrape a web page to do it.
Talk to us
Email [email protected] — support, sales, security, and privacy all reach a person there. More ways to get in touch are on the contact page, and setup guides live in the help center. If you are building against SimpleDock, start at developer docs.