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StarshipIT integration overviewStarshipIT integration overview
StarshipIT is an aggregator allowing you to setup multiple possible couriers and rates that our system can call with an address and package sizes to:
Order Capture
Find possible couriers
Calculate expected freight costs
End of picking process - confirm done to:
Book courier
Update tracking details onto the order
Attach PDF of label to the order for future reference
Print label
StarshipIT system
Obtain an account with StarshipIT
Configure the couriers you will work with and any rates you have agreed
Setup
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Couriers as Suppliers
Any changes to courier details like this needs the supplier cache updated - Supplier > Maintenance > clear supplier cache
Is Courier Flag
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Setup the StarshipIT api reference - this is passed when using the API to book the correct courier
Finding the courier in StarshipIT uses the Supplier Name when entering orders - this must be the same as in your StarshipIT account
Filtering the list of service results uses the API reference as each courier will typically return multiple possible services
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Setup the integration Credentials using the API key and password from your StarshipIT account
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Setup Delivery Zones
Delivery zones can be used to limit the list of options returned for any postcode so a preferred list of couriers is used
Example limited to a list of postcodes in a city
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Integration
Setup the integration Credentials using the API key and password from your StarshipIT account
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Delivery Zones
When a customer calls or logs onto the web to place an order
They may have a default delivery courier setup on their debtor
Couriers
Setup Couriers that are supported via your StarshipIT account
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Flag as Courier
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Link to StarshipIT API
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Example limited to any postcodes in the listed range
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If no postcodes are entered at all and ANY is set as the type then ANY postcode can be serviced.
Default Couriers on Debtor
Debtors may have a default delivery courier setup
Any default courier code should be the same as setup on the courier as the API reference on that courier
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Default couriers based on recent orders
A customer may have the same courier over the last 4 or 5 orders.
That courier will continue to be the default for that customer when an order is entered.
Carton size
The person entering the order enters the size of the cartons that will be used (required by StarShipIT)
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Setup Cartons to add to the list of choices
Preferred couriers when entering sales orders
The business may prefer cheaper, faster, more reliable couriers - so the system offers those by default using delivery zones as a filter
Couriers returned from StarShipIT will be filtered to show only those that have delivery zones setup in the system. Cheapest will default - user can select from other alternatives
This is how to default cheap couriers - setup a delivery zone for them that includes the related postcodes
Non-Default couriers
Entering a courier NAME (eg TNT below) will filter the StarshipIT results to that courier
Delivery Method must be the Supplier Company Name in order to filter the results to any results that have the API code from the supplier as the carrier
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Select a chosen option and that will update the estimated freight cost on the order
Any courier in your StarshipIT account CAN be used by entering the API code on the order
Must be setup as a courier in our system as above
Orders from external systems that already have a Courier Code
Where an order has been accepted by an external system and a preferred courier is already on the order then booking the label after picking will use that courier code
Any courier in your StarshipIT account CAN be used by entering the API code on the order
Must be setup as a courier in our system as above
StarShipIT for Foneking Marketplace Orders
Host Company Configure API
Host Company Configure API
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Creditor StarShipIT
Parcel Broker StarShipIT
Daemon Configuration
RunCourierBookingDaemon set to 1 to be active