Meet DAVE
DA-Desk checks, validates and screens all your disbursement accounts (both PDAs and FDAs)
A big benefit of using DA-Desk is how we run a series of checks on 100% of your PDAs and FDAs.
We spend a lot of effort screening, checking and validating your disbursement accounts – so you don’t have to.
This smart screening is achieved using a combination of technology and people expertise, including:
- DAVE – our proprietary DA Validation Engine – checks 1,800 rules, including applicable discounts and rebates
- A further automated rule-based tool which checks for potential errors using predefined scenarios
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to validate and screen all invoices
- Smart logic which checks for unusual costs, invoice duplication, and historical cost variations
- Our specialist screening teams in DA-Desk who do multiple manual checks.
DA-Desk automates every step of the disbursement account process – including payments
From agent appointment, to PDA and FDA checking, and payments – let us do the work for you.
DA-Desk’s smart screening process
Our smart screening does the tedious – but vital – job of checking all your proforma disbursement accounts and final disbursement accounts for errors, issues and cost-saving opportunities. It is a digitalised process, combining IT tools, automation and human experts.
We do all these checks quickly, so there is a fast turnaround of DAs to ensure smooth and accurate results for you and your business.
After checks, screening and validation, all errors and issues are picked up by our expert team at DA-Desk, and we investigate and take them up directly with your agent to resolve.
As a result of all this, you’ll save money and time.
We’ve helped hundreds of shipping companies over the years and because of this, our checks are continually evolving and improving thanks to ongoing, regular feedback from our customers. We also do root cause analysis on each error with the aim of implementing preventative measures.
DA-Desk screens, validates and checks across:
Savings on your FDAs and PDAs
We find issues in many FDAs and PDAs, and we investigate them all for you.
Many of these initial flags are then found to be valid, with justification given.
However, reductions/savings are secured in 4% of FDAs and 11% of PDAs.
| All DA-Desk customers - 2021 | |
Total value of credit notes issued for FDAs | $14,880,682 |
Number of FDAs where a credit note was issued | 4% |
Total value of PDA reductions | $101,122,592 |
Number of PDAs where a reduction was secured | 11% |
DA-Desk checks, validates and screens all your disbursement accounts (both PDAs and FDAs)
A big benefit of using DA-Desk is how we run a series of checks on 100% of your PDAs and FDAs.
We spend a lot of effort screening, checking and validating your disbursement accounts – so you don’t have to.
This smart screening is achieved using a combination of technology and people expertise, including:
- DAVE – our proprietary DA Validation Engine – checks 1,800 rules, including applicable discounts and rebates
- A further automated rule-based tool which checks for potential errors using predefined scenarios
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to validate and screen all invoices
- Smart logic which checks for unusual costs, invoice duplication, and historical cost variations
- Our specialist screening teams in DA-Desk who do multiple manual checks.
Our smart screening does the tedious – but vital – job of checking all of your PDA and FDAs for errors, issues and cost-saving opportunities.
It is a digitalised process, combining IT tools, automation and human experts.
We do all these checks quickly, so there is a fast turnaround of DAs.
After checks, screening and validation, all errors and issues are picked up by our team at DA-Desk, and we investigate and take them up directly with your agent to resolve.
As a result of all this, you save money.
We have been doing this for many years, so we have become pretty good at this process now.
The checks are continually evolving and improving thanks to ongoing, regular feedback from our customers (and by doing root cause analysis on each error aiming to implement preventative measures).
DA-Desk screens, validates and checks across:
Checking over 1,800 rules
Savings on your FDAs and PDAs
We find issues in many FDAs and PDAs, and we investigate them all for you.
Many of these initial flags are then found to be valid, with justification given.
However, reductions/savings are secured in 4% of FDAs and 11% of PDAs.
| All DA-Desk customers - 2021 | |
Total value of credit notes issued for FDAs | $14,880,682 |
Number of FDAs where a credit note was issued | 4% |
Total value of PDA reductions | $101,122,592 |
Number of PDAs where a reduction was secured | 11% |
Let us show you what DA-Desk can do
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Do you have a question about DA-Desk?
Would you like to find out how it can make your DA process simpler, quicker, more compliant and reduce your costs?
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With this short demo video, we’ll show you how we can help to improve efficiency, reduce costs and enhance compliance for your DAs.
Read the DA-Desk brochure
Our guide on how we’re trying to redefine the future of Disbursement Accounting.
Seamless integration to all major VMSs and custom systems
Our customers
350+
customers
200,000
port calls per year
373
global team members
$13bn
payments per year
2001
established
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