Commercial Invoice
The pricing and transaction basis for customs, payment, and accounting review.
Shipment Document Guide
Find practical trade document terms.
Use this glossary to align sales, operations, logistics, and finance teams around the same document language.
Trade glossary
Practical terms for Singapore shipment document work.
Use these terms to keep sales, operations, logistics, finance, and external service providers aligned around the same shipment record.
Core shipment documents
Packing List
The packing, quantity, weight, dimension, and shipping mark basis for logistics checks.
Bill of Lading / Air Waybill
The transport document used to confirm carrier, route, consignee, package count, and cargo handoff.
Certificate of Origin
Origin evidence that may support preferential tariff treatment or buyer documentation requirements.
Singapore handoff terms
Declaring agent
The service provider or authorized party that submits a Singapore customs declaration. Documents Dock prepares the document workspace before this handoff.
UEN
Unique Entity Number used to identify Singapore entities in business and government interactions.
Permit preparation
The operational step of collecting invoice, packing, transport, product, origin, and certificate references before a permit or declaration is handled outside Documents Dock.
Commercial terms
Incoterms 2020
International rules that allocate cost, risk, transport, insurance, and clearance responsibilities between seller and buyer.
FOB / CIF / DDP
Common Incoterms with different responsibility boundaries. Always record the named place and confirm whether the term fits the actual transport mode.
Baseline
The accepted version of a document or shipment value that the team uses as the comparison basis for later revisions.