Manage Bulk Products in Transport Orders

A bulk product in IMPARGO is any cargo you measure by quantity rather than counted units — cement by the tonne, diesel by the litre, nitrogen by the cubic metre. Each bulk product belongs to one of three types: Solid, Liquid, or Gas. You define them once when you first need them and reuse them across as many orders as you like.

An order works with one cargo type at a time — either loading units or bulk products, not both. You handle a bulk product on an order the same way you would a loading unit: add it to a stop, set the quantity and rates, and dispatch.

When to Use a Bulk Product

• Solids: cement, gravel, crushed stone, grain, sand, construction waste.
• Liquids: diesel, heating oil, raw milk, used cooking oil, chemicals.
• Gases: LPG, industrial nitrogen, CO₂, compressed gases.
• Disposal goods: cargo whose costs apply at unloading rather than loading — used cooking oil collected for biodiesel processing, construction waste taken to a landfill, etc. Mark these with the Disposal flag when you create the product.

Bulk products are created in context — directly inside the order where you first need them. You don't have to leave the order to define a new product, and once created, the product is available for every future order in your account.

How to Create a Bulk Product While Building an Order

Step 1: Open the Orders module. 
Go to apps.impargo.de/orders and create or open the order where you first need the new product.

Step 2: Open the Add bulk product modal. 
On the loading or unloading stop, click + Add bulk product directly under the stop. (In the Orders module the button sits as a component button on each stop. In the Planner module you would first open the stop activity panel — see §3 for the Planner flow.)

Step 3: Open the Type dropdown and choose "+ New bulk product". 
The dropdown lists your previously used bulk products as presets. The first entry is always + New bulk product — click it to open a second modal layered on top, where you can define the new product (Type, Description, Unit, Disposal flag) without losing your order context.

Step 4: Save the new bulk product. 
The new product is saved to your account, the second modal closes, and the original Add bulk product modal now has your new product preselected as the Type. Continue filling references, quantity, cost, and price as normal. From now on, this product appears as a preset in the Type dropdown for every future order.

Once a bulk product is defined in your account, attaching it to an order takes seconds. In practice you'll attach it across a loading stop (where it's picked up) and an unloading stop (where it's delivered).

There are two paths to attaching a bulk product depending on which module you're working in: the Orders module (faster, direct button on each stop) or the Planner module (route-first workflow, requires opening the stop activity panel first). The data you enter and what the driver sees are identical, only the entry path differs.

How to Attach in the Orders Module

Step 1: Open the Orders module. 
Go to apps.impargo.de/orders and create or open the order.

Step 2: Add your stops. 
Add the loading stop where the product is picked up and the unloading stop where it's delivered — the normal setup for a bulk run.

Step 3: Click + Add bulk product directly on the stop. 
Under each stop, the loading-unit and bulk-product component buttons sit inline. Click + Add bulk product right there. The Add bulk product modal opens immediately — no stop activity panel to open first.

Step 4: Fill the Add bulk product modal. 
Select the Type, enter a Description if it varies from the master record, choose the matching Loading stop and Unloading stop, and enter a required Load reference (e.g. LR-2026-04891). The Unload reference is optional.

Step 5: Enter quantity and pricing at both ends. 
At the loading stop, enter the planned Quantity (in tonnes, m³, or litres depending on the product unit) and your internal Cost per unit. At the unloading stop, confirm the Quantity delivered and the Price you charge the customer. Quantities at the two stops can differ — useful for disposal goods or routes with measured losses.

Step 6: Confirm. 
Click Add bulk product in the modal. The product line is now attached to both stops, and the stop row collapses to a summary chip.

How to Attach in the Planner Module

Step 1: Open the Planner module. 
Go to apps.impargo.de/planner and build the route for the order you're working on.

Step 2: Add your stops. 
Add the loading stop and the unloading stop for the run on the route.

Step 3: Open the stop activity panel. 
Unlike the Orders module, in Planner the bulk-product button is nested. Click the stop activity (+) button next to the address to expand Additional stop data, then click + Add bulk product.

Step 4: Fill the Add bulk product modal. 
Same as the Orders flow: select Type, set Description, match Loading and Unloading stop, set the Load reference (required) and Unload reference (optional).

Step 5: Enter quantity and pricing at both ends. 
Same field set as in Orders: planned Quantity, Cost per unit at loading, Quantity delivered and Price at unloading. Quantities can differ between the two stops.

Step 6: Confirm. 
Click Add bulk product. The product line attaches to both stops and the stop row collapses to a summary chip — identical to the Orders module result.

The Stop Row Summary Chip

After you attach a bulk product, each stop row shows a compact summary chip directly inline — for example Cement: 10t · Price: 3 €/t · R1234 with an edit icon to reopen the modal. The chip is your at-a-glance check that the product, quantity, price, and reference match what you intend. Click the edit icon on either stop to adjust the figures without rebuilding the entry.

Sending the Order to the Driver

Once the bulk product is attached and the chip looks right, dispatch the order to your driver. The full bulk product detail — type, quantities, references, and the loading/unloading stop pairing — arrives in the driver's mobile app within seconds, ready to be processed at the weighbridge (truck scale).

Every bulk product contributes to two numbers in the order: your cost (what the run costs you to operate) and your price (what you invoice the customer). Both update immediately when you change quantities or rates, and both feed into the Planner Module's results bar at the bottom of the map.

How to Read the Cost and Price Update

Step 1: Enter quantity and rates. 
A bulk product with 24 t at a loading cost of 7,80 €/t and an unloading price of 12,50 €/t adds 187,20 € to the order's Total costs and 300,00 € to the order's Price.

Step 2: Watch the results bar. 
At the bottom of the map, the results bar shows Distance · Time · Cost per KM · Total costs · Toll (with VAT) · Price per KM · Profit · Price. Bulk products feed Total costs and Price; the rest is driven by route, vehicle, and toll calculation.

Step 3: Compare variants if needed. 
The Planner Module supports manual side-by-side route comparison — duplicate the order, change the route, and check whether the cost/price ratio still makes sense before you quote.

The Cost and Price Breakdown Table

Inside the order detail view, you'll find an inline cost and price breakdown table with three columns: Name · Costs · Price. Each bulk product is one row, and a totals row sums the order. The notation ↑ 14 t × 10,00 €/t tells you the quantity went up compared with the planned value — the arrow direction reflects what the driver reported via the DriverApp. A downward arrow means the driver reduced the quantity at the weighbridge.

Recurring lanes — your weekly cement run, the daily milk pickup, the standing diesel delivery — don't need to be rebuilt from scratch every time. Save the order as a template and the bulk product travels with it: quantity, cost, price, references, and the loading/unloading stops are all preserved.

How to Save and Reuse a Template

Step 1: Build the order once. 
Configure the order completely — customer, vehicle, driver, stops, bulk product attached with quantity and rates.

Step 2: Save as template. 
Use the Save as template action and give the template a clear name, e.g. Weekly Cement Delivery — Plant A → Site B. The bulk product, with its full set of fields, travels into the template ready for reuse. 

Step 3: Reuse from the orders list. 
From the Orders list, click New from template, pick the template, and a new order opens with the bulk product already attached. Adjust the date and reference codes for the new run and you're done. You can also create several copies of an existing order in a single action — useful when the same load goes to multiple sites in the same week.

What the Saved Template Looks Like

Once saved, the template surfaces in the same detail layout as a regular order — bulk products, shipment status fields, and customer details all visible in one view. This makes it easy to audit your templates at a glance, confirm that the bulk product, quantities, and references are exactly what you want for the recurring lane, and edit any field before promoting the template into a fresh order.

Once an order has bulk products attached, the summary surfaces in three places: the order detail view (inline under each stop), the generated PDFs (when you choose to include them), and the order's Events tab (driver-confirmed events).

Bulk Products in the Order Detail View

Open any order with bulk products and each one appears inline as a pill under its stop — exactly like a loading unit — showing the product name with its quantity and cost so you can identify it at a glance. Click a pill to open the full detail with quantity, rates, and references, or to edit it.

Bulk Products on PDFs

On your generated PDFs — order confirmation, delivery note, invoice — bulk products show inline, just like loading units. There's no separate bulk-products table.

The Order Events Tab

When the driver acts on a bulk product line in the DriverApp, the order's Events tab records it in full. Click the order to open the order detail drawer, then switch to the Events tab to track everything that happened — the driver arriving, quantities adapted, loading and unloading finished, the proof-of-delivery and weighing documents themselves, and any skipped items — each one stamped with the time and the order item it relates to. This is the complete audit trail. The Fleet chat mirrors only a thin slice of it, so the Events tab is where you go for the full picture.

When you share a transport tracking link with a customer or partner — the standard public link IMPARGO generates per order — bulk product details travel with it. The recipient sees the same loading stop, unloading stop, and product information that's visible in your dispatcher view, without you having to send screenshots or PDFs separately.

What the Customer Sees

The tracking link shows the bulk product type and quantity per stop, the planned versus actual delivery moment, and any driver-confirmed updates as they happen. Sensitive figures — your internal costs, margin, and the inline price breakdown table — stay private inside your dispatcher view. The customer gets the operational view that matters to them; you keep the commercial view that matters to you.

Note: For attaching bulk products at the route-planning stage rather than the order-management stage, see How to Plan a Truck Route Online — §9 Add Bulk Product Details.