The complete air-waybill workspace for modern forwarders
Create, validate, label, price and send IATA air waybills from one place. MAWB & HAWB, FWB/FHL Cargo-IMP, barcode labels and PDFs, per-shipment economics, pre-alerts, compliance and team — and a live validator that catches the rejection causes behind most FNAs before the airline sees the message. Open self-serve, no invite.
Validates against the IATA Cargo-IMP FWB/17 specification.
Raw FWB in
FWB/17020-12345670FRAJFK/T10K250.5SHPNAM/ACME GMBHADR/HAUPTSTR 1LOC/FRANKFURT/DECVD/EUR//PPPP/NVD/NCVRTD/1/P10/K250.5/CQ/W250.5/R4.50/T1127.25/NG/MACHINE PARTSISU/22JUN26/FRANKFURT— no CNE (consignee) block —
Plain-English findings out
- rejectM-CNE-MISSING
The consignee is mandatory; "to order" still requires a named party.
Fix: Add a CNE block with the consignee name and address.
- rejectF-AWB-CHECKDIGIT
The 8th serial digit is a mod-7 check over the first 7 digits; a wrong digit is the most common FNA reason.
Fix: Recompute the check digit: divide the first 7 digits by 7 and use the remainder, including 0.
The complete air waybill workspace
Most tools make you choose between creation and validation. AWB Studio does both in a single flow — so a document that leaves your screen is one the airline will accept.
Create MAWB & HAWB from a clean form
Type shipment details once. AWB Studio computes the check digit, formats the Cargo-IMP FWB (or FHL for house manifests), and keeps every document in your shipment history.
Validation built in — not bolted on after
Every field is checked live against IATA Cargo-IMP rules as you type. Catch missing consignees, bad routing, and charge errors before the airline sees the message.
PDF, barcode labels, and Cargo-IMP messages
Generate an IATA barcode label, a formatted air waybill PDF, and a clean FWB/FHL text block — all from one entry screen, ready to download or copy.
Send or copy to your cargo system
Email the Cargo-IMP message direct from AWB Studio, or copy it in one click and paste into Cargo Spot, SITA, or your GHA portal. No export wizard.
Saved shipments, history, and templates
Every document you create is stored under your account. Save any shipment as a reusable template to speed up repeat bookings on a recurring lane.
AWB check digit auto-computed
No manual mod-7 arithmetic. Type your prefix and serial; the editor validates and completes the 8th digit instantly. Free calculator at /tools/awb-check-digit.
Create, validate, send, store — in one workspace
This is the full loop, not just one step. Start with the free validator if you already have an FWB. Or sign up and run the whole flow from document creation.
Create your MAWB or HAWB
Fill the shipment form: shipper, consignee, origin, destination, weight, charges. AWB Studio computes the check digit and builds the document as you type.
Validate — catch every FNA trigger
The same engine that runs the free public validator runs live inside the editor. Every field is checked against IATA Cargo-IMP rules. Plain-English rejection reasons appear inline — before you send anything.
Generate FWB/FHL, labels, and PDF
One click produces the Cargo-IMP FWB (and FHL for house manifests), an IATA barcode label, and a formatted PDF. All from the same screen, no separate export step.
Send or copy to your cargo system
Email the message direct from AWB Studio, or copy the FWB/FHL text and paste it into Cargo Spot, SITA, or your GHA portal. The format is standard Cargo-IMP — it goes everywhere.
Store — shipment history always on hand
Every document is saved under your account. Duplicate a previous shipment, save it as a reusable template, then search, re-download, or re-validate any document at any time.
One workspace for the whole air-waybill lifecycle
Create, validate, label, price and send — plus the parties, compliance, templates and team tooling that surround every shipment. The free FWB validator is one feature of a complete workspace.
MAWB & HAWB creation
Create a Master or House Air Waybill from a clean guided form. AWB Studio computes the IATA mod-7 check digit automatically and links house waybills to their master consolidation.
Live FWB / FNA validation
The same engine that runs the free public validator checks every field as you type — mandatory blocks, code values, the AWB check digit — and returns plain-English fixes, not raw error codes.
FWB + FHL generation
Generate the Cargo-IMP FWB and the FHL house manifest for consolidated shipments (multiple house AWBs under one master) — both formatted and ready to transmit together.
Print-ready ZPL labels
The full IATA AWB face with a scannable Code-128 barcode, plus a 4×7.56 thermal piece label per package — rendered to print-ready PDF straight from the browser.
Email straight to the carrier
Add your carrier’s cargo email once, then send the Cargo-IMP FWB to the airline or GHA in one click — no DNS setup. Outbound mail comes from ops@awbstudio.app with your inbound address as reply-to. Or copy the message into any CCS or portal.
Cost & revenue ledger
Track cost vs. sell per line item with custom categories and currencies, and see each shipment’s profitability at a glance — no separate spreadsheet.
Pre-alert portal
Share PDFs, labels and attachments with consignees and agents through an expiring link — recipients open it in the browser with no login and nothing to install.
Address book & parties
Reuse shippers, consignees and agents with their full regulatory codes (IATA agent code, CASS address, known-consignor / RA / KC number) — auto-populate forms in a click.
Compliance validation
Validate dangerous-goods handling, customs & security info (OCI) and special-handling codes (SHC) in real time, so compliance problems surface before the airline sees them.
Shipment templates
Save, rename and reuse template shipments. One click populates a new AWB with a recurring lane, shipper and commodity — no re-keying repeat bookings.
Team seats
Invite colleagues with editor or viewer roles. Everyone works from the same shipments, parties and templates under one account.
Attachments
Attach commercial invoices, packing lists and certificates of origin to a shipment, and bundle them straight into the pre-alert you share with the consignee.
The modern open alternative to invite-only AWB software
The dominant AWB tools were built when desktop installs and sales-led sign-ups were the norm. They cover the core — AWB creation, PDF, Cargo-IMP messages — but validation is an afterthought: you learn about errors from the airline’s rejection email, not from the tool that built the document.
AWB Studio is the full-product, self-serve alternative. Start free with the validator before you create an account at all. Upgrade when your volume demands it — no salesperson required.
A complete product, not a single tool.
awbeditor.com and its peers let you fill a form and print a PDF. AWB Studio creates the document, validates it, generates the Cargo-IMP message, and stores everything in one workspace. The FWB validator is the entry hook, not the whole product.
Validation is built into the editor, not bolted on after.
Every field you type is checked in real time against the same rules the airline's system uses. You see the problem before it becomes an FNA — not in a rejection email at 11 pm.
Plain-English error messages, not raw Cargo-IMP codes.
"Missing consignee name in block 3A" is actionable. "FNA-003" is not. Every rejection reason comes with the field reference and the fix.
Open self-signup — no invite, no contract.
The incumbent requires a referral or sales process before you get a login. AWB Studio is open: sign up in under a minute, start a document on the same visit. Free tier, no credit card.
Modern browser interface — no installs.
No Java applet, no desktop client, no per-machine license. Works on any screen. When we ship a feature, you get it the next time you load the page.
Start free. Scale when your volume does.
Every tier is the full workspace — no feature is locked behind a paid plan. You pay only when your monthly document volume grows.
- FWB / FNA validator (unlimited, no login needed)
- The complete AWB workspace — nothing feature-gated
- MAWB/HAWB, labels, PDFs, FHL, templates, parties, pre-alerts
- Up to 5 MAWB/HAWB documents per month
- Cargo-IMP copy/download + email to carrier
Most popular
- 200 MAWB/HAWB documents per month
- Everything in Free — no feature is paywalled
- FHL house manifests, barcode labels, AWB PDFs
- Email to airline/GHA or copy into any CCS
- Shipment history and templates
- 2,000 documents per month
- Everything in Pro
- Team seats (editor / viewer roles)
- Priority support
All tiers include the same validation engine and the same full workspace — FNA rejection protection is never a paid upgrade. Paid tiers simply raise the monthly document cap (5 → 200 → 2,000).
Common questions about AWB Studio
Start creating accept-ready air waybills today
Sign up free and open the workspace. Or paste an existing FWB right now — no account required — and see every rejection reason in seconds.
Free tier: FWB validator (no login), AWB check-digit calculator, and 5 MAWB/HAWB documents per month. No credit card required.