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August 2026 carries two changes with a deadline attached: the legacy Load Creation screen is switched off for good on August 31, and a Bill of Lading no longer satisfies a Proof of Delivery requirement unless your subsidiary opted in. The month also brought a batch of requested settlement features, new Dispatch Planner columns including Appointments and a right-click menu on a trip, Custom References for customers and locations, manual accessorials that survive a lane contract change, and a warning before you double-book a trailer or truck.

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Overview

Two changes in August need something from you rather than just a read. The legacy Load Creation screen is being retired in stages and stops working everywhere on August 31, so any team still using it should move across before then. And a Bill of Lading no longer satisfies a Proof of Delivery requirement unless your subsidiary explicitly opted in, which is a settings check rather than a migration. The rest is additive. Driver pay picked up automatic negative-balance rollover, off-cycle pay periods, saved views, and a rule condition for non-revenue loads. Carrier settlements can be grouped by factoring company. The Dispatch Planner gained Driver Fleet, Truck Fleet, Trailer Fleet, Next planned event, Created, and Appointments columns, and right-clicking a trip now opens a menu of the actions you reach for most. Empty miles now recalculate whenever you change a trip’s previous stop. The Reports Library gained Days to Invoice and Lane Profitability, and Custom References now cover customers and locations as well. Late in the month, dispatch, billing, and company administration all got safer. Alvys now warns you before you assign a trailer or truck that is already committed to another trip, a split trip keeps its trailer instead of dropping it, manual accessorials stay on a load when you apply or change a customer lane contract, registering a subsidiary verifies that you own the MC# or USDOT#, and editing the company profile is limited to Admin, Support, and Partner Admin.
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Invoicing & BillingLoads & DispatchChanged
Manual accessorials survive a customer lane contract change, and the Trips grid gains an Appointments column.

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Manual accessorials stay on the load when a lane contract changes

Applying, changing, or removing a customer lane contract on a load used to clear accessorials that had been added by hand, and operators had to re-enter them. Alvys now removes only the accessorial lines that came from the previous contract template, and leaves manually added lines in place.Two details are worth knowing. When the same charge type exists on both a manual line and a contract template, such as two Detention lines, both are kept rather than collapsed into one. And in the invoice and accessorial grid, a manually added line on a contracted load no longer shows Source = Contract; that label is now reserved for lines that came from a template.The same rules apply when a batch contract refresh runs on loads after you edit a contract. This applies going forward: a line added before this release may still be treated as contract-owned, so check it if an accessorial disappears after a contract change.Learn more: How to Create and Add Accessorials

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Appointments column on the Dispatch Planner Trips grid

The Trips grid in Dispatch Planner v2 can now show how many of a trip’s stops have a confirmed appointment, so you can see which trips still need calls without opening each one. The column reads as a count with a colored dot: green for 3/3 Confirmed, yellow for 1/3 Confirmed, and gray for 0/3 Confirmed.Appointments is hidden until you add it from the column picker. Once it is showing, you can sort it to bring the trips still needing calls to the top, or filter to Partial and Unconfirmed. Appointments are still confirmed on the load’s details page; this column tells you where to go.Learn more: Dispatch Planner
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Loads & DispatchAdded
Right-clicking a trip in Dispatch Planner v2 opens an action menu, and Trailer Fleet completes the three fleet columns.

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Right-click a trip in the Dispatch Planner for the actions you use most

Right-clicking a trip in Dispatch Planner v2 now opens a menu of the actions you would otherwise go looking for. It works on the main Trips grid and in the details view, including the Dispatch Assist suggestion rows pinned at the top.The menu offers Open In New Tab and Open In New Window for the load’s details page, Lane Report to open the lane in the lanes page, Dispatch to open the dispatch dialog, Priority to set or clear a priority, View Notes to open the trip sidebar on the Notes tab, and Copy and Export.Two details worth knowing. Dispatch appears only on a trip that can actually be dispatched — a Covered trip with a driver assigned — so its absence is information rather than a fault. And setting Priority from this menu asks you to confirm first, unlike the inline Priority cell, which applies the change straight away; either way it is a load-level value, so it applies to every trip on that load.Learn more: Dispatch Planner

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Fleet columns on the Dispatch Planner Trips grid (August 18, 20, and 26)

The Trips grid in Dispatch Planner v2 can now show the fleet behind each trip, across three columns. Driver Fleet shows the fleet of the driver assigned to the trip, Truck Fleet the fleet of the assigned truck, and Trailer Fleet the fleet of the assigned trailer. Truck Fleet arrived on August 18, Driver Fleet on August 20, and Trailer Fleet on August 26.All three are hidden until you add them from the column picker, and all three can be sorted and filtered by fleet. When a trip is covered by a team of drivers, Driver Fleet shows Driver 1’s fleet, the same way the Drivers grid does.These are separate from the existing Fleet column, which shows the load’s own fleet rather than the fleet of the assigned driver, truck, or trailer.Learn more: Dispatch Planner
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Loads & DispatchAdded
The Dispatch Planner Trips grid can show when each trip was created.

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Created column on the Dispatch Planner Trips grid

The Trips grid in Dispatch Planner v2 can now show when each trip was created, so you can tell at a glance how long a trip has been sitting unassigned. The time appears in your own local time zone, for example 08/25/2026 @ 09:22 CDT.Created is hidden until you add it from the column picker, and once it is showing you can sort by it and filter it by date.Learn more: Dispatch Planner
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Loads & DispatchCompanies, Contacts & AccessAdded
Alvys warns before you double-book a trailer or truck, split trips keep their trailer, subsidiary registration verifies MC# and USDOT# ownership, and company profile edits require Admin, Support or Partner Admin.

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Alvys warns you before you double-book a trailer or truck

Assign a trailer or truck that is already committed to a dispatched or in-transit trip over the same period, and Alvys now names the trip it is on before the assignment goes through. It is a warning rather than a block, so you can read it and still continue, but you no longer find out afterwards. It works everywhere you assign equipment, including the Manage Assets wizard, the pre-assign trailer dialog, the loads board, and both versions of the Dispatch Planner.Routine pre-planning does not set it off. A truck that finishes one trip today and starts another tomorrow is not a conflict.Learn more: How to dispatch a load

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Your trailer stays with the load when you split a trip

Splitting a trip used to drop the trailer from the new leg. Alvys now asks whether to carry it over and keeps it by default. Set a trailer on one leg after a split and Alvys offers to apply it to the other legs of that split, filling in the empty ones and leaving any leg that already has a different trailer alone. Removing a driver or truck no longer takes the trailer with it either; there is a separate Also remove trailer checkbox for when you want that.Learn more: Optimize - Split Trips & Rearrange Stops

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A new subsidiary now verifies that you own the MC# or USDOT#

Creating a subsidiary includes a step that confirms you own the authority you are registering, before the subsidiary is created. Verified carrier details pre-fill the form, and once a subsidiary is verified its MC# and USDOT# are locked, because those numbers print on rate confirmations and invoices. A correction is a support request from that point on. A number already registered by any Alvys account is refused with the reason shown, and if verification cannot be completed the subsidiary is not created rather than being let through unverified.This is rolling out to accounts gradually, so you may not see the step yet.Learn more: How to add a USDOT# to a Subsidiary

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Editing the company profile and adding subsidiaries now require Admin, Support, or Partner Admin

Owner phone, owner email, and operating countries were previously editable by any signed-in user of your company, and so was creating a subsidiary. Both are now limited to Admin, Support, and Partner Admin. Partner Admin can now edit operating countries, which the old check left out by mistake.For everyone else those fields are visible but read-only, an empty one reads Not Set, and the option to create a subsidiary is hidden rather than failing when you click it. If you are a Biller, Accountant, Dispatcher, or Operation Manager and no longer see New Subsidiary, that is the restriction working as intended.Learn more: How to add a USDOT# to a Subsidiary
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Companies, Contacts & AccessAdded
Custom References extend to customers and locations, with new tabs, profile sections and optional grid columns.

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Custom References for customers and locations

Custom References already existed for loads, trips, stops, drivers, trucks, and trailers. They now cover customers and locations as well, so your company or facility profiles can carry the identifiers you use — internal account numbers, facility notes, region tags — instead of tucking them into general instructions.What you get:
  • Two new tabs in Settings > Custom References: Customers and Locations. The create, edit, and disable flow is the same as the other tabs, with the same field types — Text, Date, Select, and Checkbox.
  • A References section on each company profile and each location profile, alongside the standard fields, where values are added and edited directly.
  • Optional columns on the Customers and Locations grids — one per reference you choose to show there.
  • Customer and location reference values are available through the Alvys public API.
A few limits to know about:
  • The new grid columns display values but do not yet support sorting or filtering.
  • Reference values are not yet included in the Customers or Locations CSV export.
  • Document surfaces (rate confirmations, Bills of Lading, invoices) do not carry customer or location references, matching how driver, truck, and trailer references already work.
Learn more: How to Set Up Custom References in Alvys
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Driver Pay & SettlementsLoads & DispatchChanged
Driver pay rules can exclude non-revenue loads, legacy Load Creation begins retiring ahead of the August 31 cut-off, and empty miles recalculate on every trip.

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Driver pay rules can exclude non-revenue loads

Driver pay rate rules can now take account of whether a load is a revenue load or a non-revenue one. If you use non-revenue loads to track repositioning moves, such as sending a driver to collect a preloaded trailer, you can now gate a rate policy so it does not fire on those moves, instead of correcting each statement by hand afterwards.This is a new condition in the existing rate rule builder. Your current rules are unchanged until you add it.

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Legacy Load Creation is being retired

The old Load Creation screen is being switched off in stages, and the last day it works anywhere is August 31. After that, every account creates loads on the current New Load form.Tenants whose users already created loads on the current form during the previous 30 days lost access to the old screen first, on August 17, and more accounts move across each day until the cut-off. If your team still uses the old screen, move them over before August 31 so the change does not arrive mid-shift. Nothing needs to be migrated and no data moves; only the screen you create loads on changes.Learn more: How to Create a Load

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Empty miles recalculate when you change a trip’s previous stop

Editing a trip’s previous location now recalculates empty miles on every trip, and the figure on the page updates as soon as you save.Before this, the recalculation only ran on trips whose mileage came from the mileage engine. On a trip with a manually entered or tender-supplied mileage source, or none set, the previous stop changed but empty miles kept the old value or stayed blank. That fed straight through to total empty miles and to per-mile driver pay.Two details worth knowing. If the mileage lookup fails, empty miles is cleared rather than left wrong: a blank means “not yet calculated”, and re-saving the stop retries it. And a load mileage you entered by hand is still never overwritten by an automatic recalculation.Learn more: Mileage Sources and Types
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Loads & DispatchAdded
The Dispatch Planner Drivers grid can show what a driver's next commitment actually is.

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Next planned event column on the Dispatch Planner Drivers grid

The Drivers grid can now show what a driver’s next commitment actually is, not just when it starts. Next planned event reads Trip, Hometime, Vacation, Restart, Sick or Emergency, Work order, Repair, or Other, and a dash when there is no next commitment.It reads from the same availability window as Next planned at and Available in, so all three describe the same event. The practical use is loading a driver toward home rather than away from it: you can see the driver has Hometime coming up without opening the sidebar. The column sorts and filters like the others.Learn more: Dispatch Planner
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Invoicing & BillingChanged
Proof of Delivery and Bill of Lading are separate requirements per subsidiary; a BOL stands in only if you opted in.

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Bill of Lading and Proof of Delivery are now separate requirements

Alvys used to accept an uploaded Bill of Lading in place of a missing Proof of Delivery when deciding whether a load could be released or invoiced. That behaviour was built for operations whose BOL carries the delivery signatures, but there was no way to opt out of it — so a subsidiary that genuinely needed a POD could be invoiced on a BOL alone.This is now an explicit choice per subsidiary. Proof of Delivery remains the required document, with an indented sub-option, Use Bill of Lading as Proof of Delivery, beneath it. Turn that on and a BOL can stand in for a missing POD, exactly as before. Leave it off and only an actual POD satisfies the requirement. When both documents are on a load, the POD always takes priority.What you need to know:
  • The same setting governs AutoMerge, not just the release and invoicing gate — so a BOL is merged into the invoice packet as the POD only when you have opted in.
  • This changed the default. Subsidiaries that did not opt in during the notice window moved to strict separation on August 4, which means a load can no longer be released or invoiced on a BOL alone. If releasing or invoicing has started failing on a missing POD, this setting is the first place to look.
  • There was no backfill, so the setting reflects what each subsidiary chose rather than what it used to do implicitly.
Learn more: Invoicing Settings
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PlatformFixed
Smaller improvements and fixes from across the month in settlements, invoicing and accounting, dispatch, mileage, fuel, reporting, EDI and access.

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Driver Pay & Settlements

  • Negative balances on driver statements can roll over automatically, so you no longer chase them manually each period.
  • Create off-cycle pay periods, and choose pay-period start dates further back when you need more flexibility.
  • Optionally display the remittance date on carrier statements, using a new settings toggle.
  • Accessorial notes now appear on the statement, giving clearer pay context.
  • Transaction modals show rate subtotals, so totals are easier to verify at a glance.
  • Revert a statement when an accounting or payment-provider sync fails, so you can correct and resubmit instead of getting stuck.
  • Triumph vendor payments sync into your ERP automatically.
  • Carrier Settlements can group open items by factoring company, filter by carrier within that view, and optionally restore per-carrier rows for remit-to workflows. Carrier settlement Drafts also refresh immediately after you unapprove items from the sidebar.
  • Truck-specific deductions stay tied to the right truck instead of spilling across a fleet, and deduction rules no longer reappear week after week after Business Central payroll generation.
  • Adding detention or layover to an already-paid load no longer recalculates mileage incorrectly, statement mileage with accessorials is more accurate, and draft statement previews show the correct PDF.
  • You can unmark paid loads in more statuses when a correction is needed, and paid accessorials no longer reappear as unpaid for owner-operators after the New Pay Module migration.
  • Owner-operator statements generate reliably even when an old deduction rule was deleted, and owner statements include the loads you expect.
  • Triumph factoring packets keep the carrier invoice in the combined PDF, lumper audit documents map to the right document type, and factoring remit-to details sync correctly for TriumphPay-paid carriers across accounting integrations.
  • The Release action stays available after you upload carrier invoices.
  • When an EFS code has already been issued or used, you can still correct the carrier or driver on the load, and EFS eCheck connect reports permanent faults clearly rather than as a temporary outage.
  • Factoring uploads succeed when the carrier DOT number is set correctly.
  • Settlement dates display correctly for users outside US time zones, pay period filters hide deprecated periods unless they still have an active draft, and your Pay Module column order sticks after you rearrange it.
  • Drivers can view pay stubs and completed loads in the mobile app again.
  • Credit limit updates save without a server error.
  • Save and reuse custom views in Driver Settlements.
  • Bulk-export driver statements into a single ZIP file.
  • Control who can revert a driver statement with a dedicated permission.
  • See hours worked and the dispatcher on the Driver Settlements grid.
  • Invoice and due dates apply across carrier settlement tabs automatically, and carrier invoice and due dates stay consistent between the main page and the carrier profile.
  • Export settlement drafts for manager approval more reliably.
  • Carrier-mode loads no longer appear as settlement-eligible external carriers.
  • Generate carrier settlements without needing Dispatch access.
  • Clear the driver paid label when you need to, and paid-to-driver loads are protected from accidental cancellation.
  • Save edited deductions without re-selecting the date.
  • Generate a statement from a draft more reliably when factoring-company grouping is turned off.
  • Save pay schedules successfully, so new pay periods can be created without errors.
  • A load’s paid status reads more clearly, so it is obvious when and why it was marked paid.
  • The rate plan editor uses the full width of the screen while you configure pay.

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Invoicing, Billing & Accounting

  • QuickBooks Desktop queued exports now wait in the queue until the Web Connector picks them up, so a slow or offline connector no longer silently drops invoices after a week.
  • QuickBooks Desktop sync is more reliable when adding fuel-provider vendors, sessions no longer stall mid-sync, and payments for completed loads flow into QuickBooks more dependably.
  • Invoiced trips stay Invoiced — the status no longer snaps back to Released unexpectedly.
  • Invoice delivered dates and the invoice numbers in the Load Usage export are more accurate.
  • Shared billing exports every Business Central transaction in your selection, not just the first.
  • You can regenerate an invoice even when an attached file is no longer available, and invoice generation completes without unexpected errors.
  • Export the full set of billing cycles you select on the billing page.
  • Change Customer is available on Released loads when you have permission.
  • Duplicate payment entries no longer inflate Amount Paid on invoices, and Aging report exports show accurate totals and grouping.
  • Match customers by company number when syncing invoices to Business Central.
  • Invoice generation no longer gets stuck in Processing.
  • Stuck QuickBooks Desktop invoices clear from Error Transactions more reliably, and QuickBooks Online versus Desktop payment attribution stays accurate.
  • Re-export a posted supplemental to your ERP after it is revised in Alvys.
  • Credit memos raised against a load now carry their original invoice through to your accounting system, so applying a credit is no longer a manual match. Standalone or summary credits with no original invoice are unchanged.
  • In Business Central, a new sales credit memo now reads Credit Memo followed by the original Alvys invoice number, matching how sales invoices already read, so Apply Customer Entries is searchable the same way. QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop, NetSuite, and Sage are unchanged.

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Loads & Dispatch

  • See exactly which credentials are blocking a carrier assignment.
  • Create load templates with transit times of up to 30 days, replacing the old 10-day limit.
  • Use custom references on loads in more load statuses.
  • The dispatcher on a load stays put when you edit the load.
  • Assigning a driver in the planner preserves your dispatcher assignment preferences.
  • Location internal notes appear on the load again.
  • View and edit Previous Stop on subsidiary and carrier-only workflows.
  • Sequential dispatch now guards truck and asset overlaps, not only driver overlaps.
  • Available at and Available in on the Dispatch Planner Drivers grid now anchor on the trip a driver actually delivered last, so overlapping trips no longer show a driver free at the wrong place or time.
  • Home time no longer overrides real driver availability in the Dispatch Planner.
  • Longer equipment length options are available when managing assets.
  • Adding a location uses clearer labelling, so it is obvious you are creating a location and not a customer.
  • Cloning a load and generating carrier rate confirmations work even when stop names are missing.
  • You can clear the priority on a completed non-revenue load.
  • Shipper location edits save correctly even when an invoice has already been generated.

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Mileage, Routing & Mapping

  • Previous-stop resolution and empty-miles accuracy improve when pickup actuals arrive.
  • Tolls are deducted more reliably.

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Fuel

  • IFTA and custom fuel imports are clearer and more forgiving: excluded rows surface as proper partial-success feedback, optional columns stay optional, and common diesel synonyms map to Truck Diesel correctly.
  • Fuel transactions no longer appear as duplicates.
  • Activating Alvys Marketplace works again.
  • Comdata fuel purchases show on the settlement screen.
  • EFS fuel sync is reliable again, and Relay fuel truck numbers populate correctly.
  • IFTA reports sync successfully after you click Sync.

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Reporting & Insights

  • Two additions to the Reports Library: Days to Invoice and Lane Profitability.
  • Custom visualisations support “next” date filters, such as the next 7 or 30 days.
  • Reporting access changed on User Details now applies as expected — including when authoring access is revoked.
  • Commission spreadsheet sync includes the full set of expected data, and driver statements that share the same date now appear correctly.
  • Scheduled report exports send again as expected.

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Integrations, EDI & Tracking

  • Stronger EDI 214 and 990 handling for partner workflows, including arrival and location detail, and partner EDI loads more reliably receive stop dates and times.
  • After a successful EDI share, the stop card Shared update label refreshes right away, and EDI tender updates preserve consolidated shared and route notes instead of overwriting them.
  • MacroPoint outbound tracking data reaches your customers more reliably.
  • Map routes load consistently on the Asset Map.
  • Rejected 997 acknowledgments are resolved, and 214 mapping is more accurate, including L11 segment filters.
  • Tender 204s that use S5 mapping codes are accepted more reliably.
  • PU numbers are added automatically on BluJay and JBS loads.
  • Armada EDI tenders create with the correct reefer equipment type instead of a 53-foot dry van.
  • Motive ELD integrations reconnect more reliably.
  • FourKites outbound tracking updates keep reaching your customers.
  • Destination whitespace that caused EDI location mismatches is trimmed.
  • Multi-zone return-air temperature readings from ELD data are preserved instead of being dropped.

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Companies, Contacts & Access

  • The Profiles card opens against the tenant you are currently viewing, not your first tenant.
  • The permission Select all checkbox accurately reflects a partial selection.
  • Legacy driver custom references, such as hire date, are editable again where the underlying record was incomplete.
  • Deleted users leave the Users list right away, with no refresh required.
  • You stay signed in through active workflows. A brief authentication hiccup now retries quietly instead of logging you out and losing in-progress edits, so unexpected logouts should be much rarer.
  • Help Center article images load reliably again.

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Search & Imports

  • Truck list imports finish reliably and surface errors instead of hanging silently.

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Public API

Integrator-facing changes shipped in August too, including stricter validation of parameters passed to Alvys MCP tools. Those are documented for developers in the Alvys changelog.