Aljex alternative

Loads, carriers and shippers, on one simple board.

Freight orders with carrier quotes, margin and pickup and delivery tasks, next to your shippers, calls, texts and invoices. Unlimited users, no setup fee.

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Free plan, no card. Bring your shippers and carriers by pasting a list.

Northline FreightCustomersDealsCallsInvoicesA four-person freight brokerage

Aljex and Alori, side by side.

AljexAlori

Price for a team of 5Essential, $699 a month plus a setup feeFrom $99 a month, everyone included

People5 users on Essential, 15 on ProfessionalUnlimited users on every plan

Orders, carrier quotes and marginYesYes

Load boards (DAT, Truckstop)YesNot yet

Carrier onboarding and complianceYes, with MyCarrierPortalNot yet

Live trackingYes, with MacroPointNot yet

Rate confirmations, BOLs and EDIYesNot yet

Shipper CRM, deals and quotesThrough other toolsBuilt in

Calls and texts from a business numberThrough other toolsBuilt in

From a shipper's email to a booked load.

Paste the request into Ask Sam, add carrier quotes, select the best one, and tick the pickup when the truck leaves.

1The shipper's email becomes an order
2Compare carrier quotes
3Pickup ticked, the load is in transit

The shipper's email becomes an order

What changes on Monday.

01
BeforeA full TMS bill for a desk moving a few loads a day
With AloriOrders, carrier quotes and margin from $99 a month
02
BeforeRate requests in email, follow-ups on sticky notes
With AloriRate requests as deals, quotes signed online, follow-ups as tasks
03
BeforeDrivers texted from personal phones
With AloriTexts from the business number, in the shared inbox

Margin on every load, and on the whole list.

What you charge the shipper, minus the selected carrier's freight, fuel and accessorials. The order list adds up the margin of the orders shown.

Fuel as an amount or a percent of the freight.
Filter orders losing money or under 15%.
Roles without See prices don't see cost or margin.

The sales side stays in the same app.

Shippers and carriers are companies with their people. Each rate request can be a deal, each price a quote signed online, and every call and text lands on the same record.

A business number for the whole team, calls recorded and written out.
Quote follow-up sends a reminder when a shipper goes quiet.
Leo, the sales assistant, writes the follow-up after each recorded call.

Change it by asking.

Your app isn’t frozen on day one. Write what you need, the way you’d text it. Alori makes the change and shows you before anything goes live.

Make an order from this email
What picks up today?
Which orders are delivered but not invoiced?
Add Ridgeway's quote of $1,180 to ORD-2026-0415 and book it

The full guide

Everything above, in detail: how it works, what it replaces and what it does not.

Short answer: Alori is an Aljex alternative for a small freight brokerage that wants a simple order board next to its sales. Orders track each load from quote to delivered, with carrier quotes, margin and pickup and delivery tasks, in the same app as your shippers, carriers, calls, texts and invoices, with unlimited users. Aljex goes much deeper on load boards, carrier onboarding, tracking and EDI: if you lean on those, stay on it.

Why brokers leave Aljex

Descartes Aljex is a full TMS for freight brokers, with load board, carrier onboarding, tracking and accounting integrations. Some small brokerages leave it for these reasons:

Essential is $699 a month plus a setup fee, before integration fees, which is a full TMS bill for a small desk.
Shipper prospects, rate requests, follow-ups, calls and texts live in a CRM and on personal phones.
A two- or three-person brokerage moving a few loads a day doesn't open most of the screens.

What you pay

Aljex, as listed on its pricing page in November 2026:

Team of 5	Aljex	Alori
Plan	Essential: $699 a month, 5 users	Free to start, Solo from $99 a month, Business from $249
Setup	One-time setup fee (amount not listed)	None
More people	Professional from $999 a month, 15 users	Unlimited users on every plan
CRM, calls and texts	Integrations and other apps	Built in

AI, texts, calls and emails use credits. See pricing.

What Alori replaces

Freight orders: each order has its customer, shipper and consignee with their docks and hours, pickup and delivery appointments, equipment (dry van, reefer, flatbed, step deck, container, LTL), references (customer PO, customs broker, port of entry, TR#) and commodities, in inches and pounds or metric.
Carrier quotes and margin: add each carrier's price with freight, fuel and accessorial lines, select the best one to book the order, and see the margin per order and for the whole list.
A status that follows the work (Quote, Booked, In transit, Delivered, Invoiced): ticking the Pickup task moves the order to In transit, and late tasks turn red.
History and rights: every change is logged with who and when. A role without See prices doesn't see cost or margin.
Orders from an email: paste a shipper's request into Ask Sam and it fills the order, making companies and addresses it doesn't know.
Shippers and carriers in your CRM: Customers and companies, rate requests as deals, quotes signed online and invoices with QuickBooks Online sync.
Calls and texts: a business number for the whole team, calls recorded and written out, texts with drivers and dispatchers in the shared inbox. See calls.

What Alori doesn't do yet

Load board posting (DAT, Truckstop, 123Loadboard), carrier onboarding and compliance checks, live tracking, rate confirmations and bills of lading as PDFs, documents on the order, EDI, customer and carrier portals, and invoices made from the order. If your desk runs on those, stay on Aljex, or use Alori for the sales side next to it.

How to switch

Start free. Describe your brokerage. Then tell Alori "I need a TMS" and it turns on Orders.
Bring your shippers and carriers. Export your contacts from Aljex and paste them into Ask Sam after "Add these customers:", with each person's company. Alori adds them, with an Undo button.
Enter your open loads. Paste each shipper's request into Ask Sam ("Make an order from this email") or click New order. Past loads stay in Aljex.
Invite the team and get a business number, or bring yours. Every plan has unlimited users.

Questions

Another question? Ask it when you start.

For a small brokerage that wants orders, carrier quotes, margin and its sales in one simple app, yes. For load boards, carrier compliance, tracking and EDI, Aljex is the stronger TMS.

Alori starts at $99 a month with unlimited users and no setup fee, against $699 a month for 5 users on Aljex Essential, plus its setup fee.

Alori has a free plan with no card. You can turn on Orders and enter loads for free.

Your shippers, carriers and contacts from a list you paste into Ask Sam. Alori has no Aljex import, so past loads stay in Aljex.

Small teams, usually under 50 people. See Alori for freight brokers.

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