Dock booking · In development

NorthSlot

Every arrival, in view.

Dock booking you host yourself. Your customers and suppliers book their own delivery slots online, and your team sees the day at a glance.

Illustration: an example day of dock bookings by door, with deliveries, collections and free slots. — Illustration, not a product screenshot.

Why we’re building it

Goods in is often run on phone calls, emails and a shared spreadsheet. Lorries arrive in clumps, bays clash, drivers queue, and afterwards there’s no record of what happened. NorthSlot moves the bookings online and gives the office one clear view of the day.

The work so far

A look at NorthSlot

Real screens from the current build, with made-up example data.

NorthSlot day board: counts of due, on bay, departed, late and no-show bookings, then each door’s bookings with customer, supplier, registration, load and status. — Real screen The day board, where the office starts: every door’s bookings and where each one is.

NorthSlot booking portal on a phone: choose a door and date, then pick from the free times. — Real screen A supplier booking a slot on their phone, from the free times only.

Version 1

What it does

Customers and suppliers book online.

Each gets a portal login to see free times, book a slot, change or cancel it, and attach a delivery note. No phone calls to the office.
The day at a glance.

Every door’s bookings for the day, with counts of due, arrived, on bay, departed, late and no-show.
Your doors, your rules.

Opening hours for each door, night shifts included, daily and hourly limits, and which loads, vehicles and customers each door takes. No double-booked doors.
Status at the gate.

Mark arrived, on bay and departed as vehicles come and go, and add the registration and driver at the gate.
The week ahead.

Each door’s bookings for the week against its daily limit, so you can see a full day coming.
Secure by default.

Staff roles, optional two-step sign-in and a record of who changed what.

Where it’s at

Version 1 progress

Most of version 1 is built.

Built so far

Sites and doors, with opening hours (night shifts included)
Door rules: daily and hourly limits, and which loads, vehicles and customers each door takes
Bookings checked against every rule, with no double-booked doors
The day board, with filters and search
Status buttons: arrived, on bay, departed, late and no-show
The week view
Customer and supplier portal: book, change, cancel and attach documents
Staff roles, two-step sign-in and an audit trail

Still to build

Email confirmations and reminders, sent through your own email
Export the day or week to Excel, and a printable arrivals sheet

How it works

Yours, on your systems

Runs on your servers.

You install it on your own server or cloud account. We never host it and never see your data.
A licence, not a seat fee.

No per-user charges. If a licence lapses, your data stays readable: you’re never locked out of it.
Made by people who’ve done the job.

Built around how warehouse work actually gets done, by people who’ve run the floor.