Comparison

Dispatch Board vs PortPro: where each one wins

PortPro is an established drayage system with real strengths. This page lists what each product does, including what we lack, so you can pick on facts.

Last checked: 2026-10-06. Products change; confirm anything that decides your purchase with each vendor.

Choose Dispatch Board if

You want to recover money and keep it simple

Per diem, chassis and detention leaks are your biggest worry
You operate in Canada or across the border, or in BC ports
You want to sign up, import your data and judge it yourself
You prefer per-truck prices with unlimited office logins

Choose PortPro if

You depend on integrations we don’t have

You need automatic terminal appointment booking through eModal
You need EDI with large customers or QuickBooks Desktop
You run free-flow or peel-pile orders
You want an AI chat agent that takes actions, or customer delay alerts from predicted ETAs

Feature comparison
Capability	Dispatch Board	PortPro
Dispatch board, driver app, customer portal	Yes	Yes
Container tracking	YesTerminal49, plus vessel arrival by AIS	Yes
Street turns and dual transactions	YesSuggestions that respect empty return restrictions	YesIncludes shift-level recommendations sent to the terminal
Empty return restrictions	YesEntered by hand or extracted from emails	YesStored as dispute evidence
Per diem: reason for each day, rebill, dispute letter	Yes	Not on its public pagesIt has per diem cases and a waiting-time audit
Chassis bill checking	YesChecked against your own dates, with a dispute letter	PartlyChassis audit from a CSV upload
Missed-charge finder	YesPlus a weekly Money Check email	Yes
Email reading for orders and empty returns	Yes	YesReads attachments in several formats
Automatic terminal appointment booking	NoAppointment rules, slot capacity and booking links	YesIn named US ports
AI chat that can act	PartlyDispatchBot answers questions, it does not take actions	Yes
Predicted ETA alerts to customers	NoLate and at-risk flags on the board	Yes
EDI	No	Yes
Free-flow / peel-pile orders	No	Yes
Accounting sync	QuickBooks Online, Xero	QuickBooks Online, Xero, QuickBooks Desktop
Canadian taxes, CAD, BC Container Trucking Act pay check	YesBC pay check is an add-on	Not on its public pages
Vessel tracking by AIS, yard list, IFTA, DVIR, maintenance	Yes	Not on its public pages
Pricing and sign-up	Per truck, self sign-upFigures still to be confirmed	Not listed on pages we reviewed

How to read this. The PortPro column comes from its public website, release notes, tutorial videos and review sites as last checked on 2026-10-06. “Not on its public pages” means we did not find it, not that it is missing. PortPro’s help center sits behind a login, so we could not check it. Products change, so confirm anything that decides your purchase with each vendor.

Switching

Moving over from PortPro or a spreadsheet.

You can import drivers, trucks, chassis, customers, rate tables and loads from Excel, CSV or a PDF rate sheet. The importer matches columns by heading, checks every row before saving, and flags duplicates. Run it in the trial on a copy of your real week and compare the result with what you have today.

PortPro books terminal appointments and we need that. What do you offer?

Dispatch Board does not book appointments automatically. It has appointment rules, slot capacity and booking links, so your team still books, but with the rules in one place. If automatic booking decides your purchase, PortPro is the better fit on that point.

We want to see per diem and chassis problems before we pay for them. Where do I start?

Start with the Billing tab: Per diem, Chassis bills and the Money Check. Upload last month’s chassis invoice in the trial and see which lines are flagged against your own dates.

Can I run both for a while?

Yes. The trial doesn’t touch your current system, so you can enter a week of loads in both and compare.

Will my drivers need training?

The driver app runs in the phone’s browser, and each screen has a Help Center guide. How much training you need depends on your team.

Judge it on your own loads.

Start a trial, import a week of moves and compare the results side by side.

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