1. Order Management
  2. Order Fulfillment and Shipping
  3. NetSuite Ship Central
  4. NetSuite Ship Central Setup
  5. Setting Up Records for NetSuite Ship Central
  6. Creating Shipping Items for your Shipping Services

Creating Shipping Items for your Shipping Services

The shipping item record provides settings that you can specify for shipping services, including the shipping rate, labels, and tax schedule. You can also enable the setting to display shipping items for selection on your Commerce website.

Create shipping items for the services that you have integrated with Ship Central. You can view the list of available shipping services by going to Setup > Ship Central Setup > Manage ShipEngine Integration.

To create shipping items for your shipping services:

  1. Using the Ship Central Manager role, go to Ship Central Setup > Packing & Shipping Records > Shipping Items > New.

  2. On the Shipping Item page, set the following fields:

    1. Ship Name - Enter a unique name for the shipping service.

    2. Display Name/Code – Enter a unique name that you want to appear in the Shipping Method or Ship Via fields on printed forms, your web store, and all centers, such as the Customer Center. Otherwise, the value in the Ship Name field is displayed.

    3. Subsidiaries – (Optional) You can change the default subsidiary setting for this shipping item.

    4. If you have a Commerce website, check the Display in Website box to use this shipping item created for Ship Central.

      After you enable this setting, make sure that you also enable the Charge for Shipping setting on the Set Up Shipping page. See Updating Shipping Settings.

  3. Click the Shipping Rate subtab, and then set the following fields:

    1. In the Account (Shipping) field, select the account you want to associate with this shipping item.

    2. Choose Shipping Partner Rate.

    3. In the Shipping Partner Rate section, select values in the following fields:

      • Shipping Partner – Select PackShip – Shipping Plugin.

      • Service Group – Select the carrier that provides the shipping service.

      • Service – Select the shipping service you want to associate with this shipping item.

  4. If you use the Shipping Label Integration feature, on the Shipping Labels subtab, you can set the following fields:

    1. Shipping Partner – Select PackShip - Shipping Plugin.

    2. Service Group – Select the carrier that provides the shipping service.

    3. Service – Select the same shipping service that you have set up on the Shipping Rate subtab.

    4. Return Service – If you set the return label preference, you can select the shipping service that you want to use for returns.

  5. Click the Shipping Rules subtab, and then in the Charge Tax on this Shipping Portion of Item field, select the tax schedule you want to use to calculate the tax on the shipping charge.

  6. (Optional) Click the other subtabs to apply more settings to your shipping item.

    For more information about the subtab fields, see Creating Shipping Items.

    Tip:

    On the Packaging subtab, even if you check the Omit Packaging box, it does not apply to orders that you process through NetSuite Ship Central.

  7. Click Save.

When you create orders, you can choose the shipping method associated with a shipping item for Ship Central. Orders submitted through your Commerce website include the preferred shipping method of your customer.

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