Updating Shipping Settings

Shipping settings include additional capabilities that you can enable on separate pages through the following procedures:

To update your Shipping setup:

If you use the Shipping Label Integration feature, you can enable the following capabilities that you can set up on the Set Up Shipping page: International Shipping, HazMat/Dangerous Goods (for USPS only); and Packages. Package setup includes package types that you can assign as a default for all items or to specific items.

If you have a Commerce website, you can enable the setting to include shipping items created for Ship Central.

For more information about the Shipping Label Integration feature, see Enabling Features for NetSuite Ship Central.
To display customer names for shipments:

Mobile pages for packing and shipping contain tables that include the Customer column. To display customer names in this column, complete the following procedure. If you have already done this procedure for other features, you can double check your settings.

Using the Administrator role, go to Setup > Accounting > Setup Tasks > Shipping (Administrator).

The Set Up Shipping page appears.
To use the app to ship orders packed through the NetSuite UI, in Shipping Label Creation Stage field, select Shipped.
To include shipping items in your Commerce website, check the Charge for Shipping box.

If you enable this setting, you must also enable the Display in Website setting for each shipping item that you want to use on your website. See Creating Shipping Items for your Shipping Services.
On the Preferences subtab, check the following boxes for the shipping options that you want to set up:
- International Shipping
- HazMat/Dangerous Goods
On the Packages subtab, you can add package types that you want to set up on items that you ship:

For instructions, see Packages Subtab.

To assign a default package to an item, see Creating Items for Ship Central.
Click Submit.

To continue setting up international shipping or shipping of hazmat items, see Ship Central Preferences.

Go to Setup > Company > Auto-Generated Numbers.
In the Enable column, check the box for Customer.
If you already have existing customer records, check the Allow Override and Update boxes for Customer.

Skip this step if you have not added customer records yet.
Click Save.