A network is only as valuable as the trust it can prove.
T.I.M.E. Network is a curated alliance of independent freight forwarders where every partner carries a living TrustScore, every settlement runs through escrow, and every claim is published. Capped markets. Published prices. No conference required.
From application to paid invoice, one record.
- 01Apply and get verified
Company registry, sanctions screening, three trade references confirmed by the partners who gave them. Market caps are enforced at approval, so a seat means something.
- 02Post an RFQ, get matched
Structured lane, mode and cargo. The matching engine ranks partners by TrustScore, lane history and specialty — and explains each recommendation. Line-item quotes come back on-platform.
- 03Award, fund escrow, ship
One click turns the winning quote into a shipment with a shared milestone timeline. Settlement is funded into TIME Pay escrow and released on proof of delivery.
- 04Score, protect, publish
Every outcome moves both partners' TrustScores. Disputes are ruled from the record, paid from the protection pool, and published on the claims ledger.
The incumbents sell a badge and a gala. We built the rails.
Legacy networks vet once, count offices as members, hide their prices, cap protection with pools that could not cover a fraction of their membership, and keep every deal in email where nobody learns from the outcome. T.I.M.E. moves the deal, the money and the dispute onto one record — and publishes the results.
See the live Network Health pageA 0–1000 score from verification, payment behaviour, responsiveness, disputes and tenure. Public breakdown. Decays when you go quiet.
Fund on booking, release on proof of delivery. Auto-release windows, immutable ledger, 0.6% capped fee — waived for Elite.
Up to $150k per company from a $2.5M pool, and a public ledger of claims filed, paid, denied and days-to-ruling.
Structured RFQs, explainable partner matching, line-item quotes, award-to-shipment in one click, shared milestone timeline.
Lane benchmarks, sailing schedules, load planning, HS lookup, sanctions screening, CO₂e and an assistant grounded in your own deals.
Load contract rates, quote customers in seconds with your margin, track opens and acceptances — and take shipper enquiries on your own branded page.
Five Members and two Elite per market. Waitlists with a visible position. Companies counted, branches free.
Reputation with a formula.
Every member sees exactly why a partner scores what they score, and what would move it. Late releases cost points. Rulings against you cost more. Endorsements from partners you have actually shipped with count; a logo on a website does not.
- Recomputed nightly from on-platform behaviour
- Six weighted components, weights published
- Eight-week history on every profile
- Suspensions and reinstatements listed in a public risk register
What each network publishes — and what it doesn't.
Compiled from each network's own published pages and terms (September 2026). Where a figure is not published, the cell says so; we do not estimate it for them.
| Criterion | T.I.M.E. Network | WCAworld | JCtrans | GLA Family | Conqueror | DF Alliance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual price published | US$0 / 2,900 / 5,900 | US$0 / 2,500 / 3,000 / 5,000 | Quote only, by territory | Free / US$3,588 | ||
| Counts companies, not offices | Unreconciled (12k+ vs 28k+) | Unreconciled (7k+ claimed, ~1k listed) | ~250 members, one per city | 8,749 claimed, mostly free sign-ups | ||
| Living behaviour-based trust score | 0–1000, weights public, nightly | D&B audit at entry, re-checked yearly | ||||
| Published credit limit per member | Recomputed nightly, capped at protection limit | Yes, from the D&B audit | ||||
| Payment-standing signal | Traffic light from on-platform settlements | Risk list (criteria not published) | Traffic light from member reports | Blacklist on request | ||
| Escrow conditioned on delivery | TIME Pay: fund on booking, release on POD | PartnerPay wallet (no escrow) | Credit Assurance Order (terms opaque) | GLA Pay wallet | None (a payment product was announced in 2026) | Ship Now Pay Later: 30 days at 2% |
| Protection per company | Up to US$150k (Elite) / 75k (Member) | US$100k same-network; 50k cross | US$150k Elite / 100k others | US$50k (Golden+ only) | US$25k, opt-in at EUR 500/yr | US$10k rising to 100k, ocean only, 90% of invoice |
| Protection covers more than insolvency | Non-payment, documented service failure and cargo-linked disputes | Non-payment only | Non-payment, wide exclusions | Non-payment only | Bankruptcy or closure only | Credit risk only; fraud and cyber excluded |
| Claims paid & days-to-ruling published | ||||||
| Market caps with visible waitlist | 5 Member + 2 Elite per market | 1 per city, waiting list not visible | ||||
| Deal record on-platform (RFQ→quote→shipment→invoice) | Quoting app only | Inquiry board | Inquiry board | FreightViewer quoting, no shipment record | Leads and booking, no partner shipment record | |
| Instant customer quoting with open/accept tracking | Rate Desk: rate cards, margins, branded links | WQS app | FreightViewer (strong) | Logistics Explorer (white-label) | ||
| Member-to-member rate sharing | Opt-in per rate, hidden from your own market | Yes, excludes in-country rivals | Rates published to the marketplace | |||
| Shipper lead marketplace | Public estimate tool + per-member storefronts | Inquiry board | Inquiry board | SeaRates leads (Premium) | ||
| Conference attendance required | Attendance-linked pricing | Attendance expected | Mandatory — EUR 1,000 fine, 2 misses = expulsion | No own conference since 2022 | ||
| Platform independence | Own stack, no carrier or terminal owner | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Owned by DP World; SeaRates being discontinued (Aug 2026) |
Sources: wcafirst.com/benefits/globalreach and the Gold Medallion terms PDF; jctrans.com/en/vip and /membership/tools/risk; glafamily.com/en/about-us and terms; conquerornetwork.com membership rules and FAQ PDFs and the FreightViewer pages; df-alliance.com membership, payment-protection and digital-tools pages plus ciffa.com/discount/df-alliance. Figures are self-reported by each network and may change; where a network does not publish something, the cell says so rather than estimating.
Protection that publishes its numbers.
No incumbent tells you how many claims they paid last year. We show the ledger on the public site, updated as rulings are issued.
Read the Protection Plan termsStraight answers.
Anything not covered here is in the membership terms, which are public.
Membership termsWho can apply?+
Independent, licensed freight forwarders and NVOCCs with at least two years of trading history, a verifiable company registration and three partner references. Brokers, carriers and software vendors are listed separately as Vendors.
What does the free Verified tier include?+
A public profile with the Verified badge after KYB and sanctions screening, full directory access, the ability to receive RFQs and submit up to three quotes per month, and a visible TrustScore. It does not include escrow or the Protection Plan.
How is TrustScore calculated?+
Six weighted components — verification (25%), payment behaviour (30%), responsiveness (15%), dispute record (15%), tenure and activity (10%), peer endorsements (5%) — recomputed nightly from on-platform behaviour only. Every profile shows the breakdown and an eight-week history.
What does escrow cost?+
0.6% of the settlement, capped at US$250, charged to the payer on release. Elite members pay no escrow fee. Deposits and withdrawals are free; funds sit in a segregated client account.
What happens when a market is full?+
You join a waitlist with a visible position. Seats open when a member does not renew, is expelled, or the Elite Council votes to raise the cap for that market. Verified listing is never capped.
Do branches count against the cap?+
No. Membership is per company. Branch offices are free sub-profiles under the parent and share its seats, TrustScore and protection limit.
Is protection insurance?+
No. It is a member-funded pool with published limits, published exclusions and a published ledger of every claim filed, paid and denied. Rulings are issued from the platform record by day 21 of the claim, and upheld claims are paid by day 28 — the full timeline is on the Protection page.
Membership from US$2,900. Every limit published.
Verified listing is free with KYB. Elite includes the Summit pass and $150k protection.