Outbound Freight booking
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Module
Integration to your freight company at time of entering the sales order. The system works out the number of cartons to be dispatched, their weight and knows the address so then passes this information to your freight company to get an accurate quote you can then provide to your customer. The information is available in the system and can be presented to the person entering the order including on the webstore checkout page. Alternatively you may wish to use an intermediate company that passes the information to a list of your preferred freight companies leaving your customer to select their preference - requires Once a customer has provided the items they want to order the next question is the freight charge - which depends what is being sent, to where, when and using which carrier.
If you use external carriers the simplest way is to use the Outbound Freight Booking capability. The system will:
- Use the Cartonising process to calculate the cartons required.
- Send the number of cartons, their weights and volumes along with the shipping dates and addresses to external freight companies to quote on.
- Provide quotes in real time so you can provide your customer with choices of cost / time / preferred carriers as you finalise the order.
- Note: The quotes can be provided also during the checkout process on the Customer Portal and the Webstore
- The customer decides confirms choice and payment.
- The carrier is then booked directly and the order ready for picking. Note: Requires an account at Temando (http://www.temando.com.au).
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note that integration does not exist to all freight companies and can be built directly to preferred companies (if they support it), each case will need to be reviewed with the freight company to determine suitability and cost.