NetSuite For Dummies by Julie Kelly

Author:Julie Kelly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Published: 2010-10-13T04:00:00+00:00

Integrated shipping

With integrated shipping, labels for your preferred carrier, shipping charges, tracking numbers, and other information are generated automatically, and your account with the shipper is automatically billed.

When you use integrated shipping, you can automatically sync your shipping operations with your carriers. The system automatically generates tracking numbers and shipping labels and gives you up-to-the-minute shipping rates.

Here are some of the main features:

Tracking numbers: With integrated shipping, tracking numbers from FedEx, UPS, or USPS/Endicia are inserted when you fulfill an order (via Web services, in case you’re curious).

Pick, Pack, and Ship: As described earlier, you can enable the Pick, Pack, and Ship feature to break the fulfillment process into three steps. If you do this in combination with shipping label integration, you can designate the stage at which an order gets a tracking number and is charged to your shipping account.

1. From the Setup tab menu, choose Accounting⇒Shipping.

2. In the Default Item Fulfillment Integration Stage field, select Picked, Packed, Or Shipped.

Multiple locations: When you have the Multi-Location Inventory feature enabled along with the Shipping Label Integration feature, you can set up different UPS and FedEx accounts for each location. As a result, each location can get real-time rates and correct labels for each warehouse. When the order is created, you designate the location from which it will be fulfilled. An Administrator can set up locations from the Setup tab menu by choosing Company⇒Locations.

Integrating with multiple carriers: The default shipping carrier doesn’t restrict you to using only that carrier. If you use multiple carriers, select the shipping option that you use most frequently as the default.

Shipping labels: With the Shipping Label Integration feature, you can print — guess what? — an integrated shipping label ready to be processed by the related carrier. This label may also include a barcode.

Setting up integrated and non-integrated shipping options

To set up shipping, an administrator must follow these steps:

1. From the Setup tab menu choose Setup⇒Accounting⇒Shipping.

The Set Up Shipping page opens, as shown in Figure 11-5.

2. (Optional) Select the Charge for Shipping check box.

Check this option to automatically charge for shipping on orders. You must check this box to charge for shipping in your Web site.

3. (Optional) Select the Charge for Handling Separate from Shipping check box.

Use this option if you charge a separate fee for handling orders.

4. Select your main carrier from the Default Shipping Carrier drop-down list.

If you use multiple carriers, select the one you use most often as your default. You must set up an account for the default carrier (whether UPS, FedEx, or USPS) on the Carrier Registration tab before selecting the default carrier; see Step 6. You can register more than one carrier account with various carriers and toggle between them on orders.

5. Choose from the Default Shipping Method drop-down list.

Choose the shipping method that should appear on bills and invoices. You can still choose any shipping method on transactions.

6. Enter a default item weight, in pounds, for items without a weight specified.

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