Creating Shipping Items for your Shipping Services

Ship Central Plugins for Shipping Items

Based on your shipping requirements, you can assign one of the following Ship Central Plugins to your shipping items:

• PackShip -Shipping Plugin – Lets you choose a carrier account associated with the shipping service you want to assign to the shipping item.

• PackShip -Advanced Shipping Plugin – Lets you choose a carrier that provides the shipping service you want to assign to the shipping item. After you set up the shipping item, you can assign specific accounts from the carrier per location. For more information, see Assigning Carrier Accounts to Locations.

On orders, you can choose shipping methods associated with shipping items that use a specific plugin based on the display name you provide. Those that use the Advanced Shipping Plugin enable you to charge a specific carrier account assigned to a location.

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.

      Tip:

      If you use both Ship Central Plugins, provide names that enable you to distinguish between the plugins used for a shipping item.

   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 or PackShip – Advanced Shipping Plugin.

        For more information, see Ship Central Plugins for Shipping Items.

      • Service Group – Based on your Shipping Partner choice, select the carrier account for PackShip – Shipping Plugin or the carrier for PackShip – Advanced Shipping Plugin.

      • 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. In the following fields, be sure to select the same field values as ones you select in step 3: Shipping Partner, Service Group, and Service

   2. Return Service – If you can print return labels, you can select the shipping service that you want to use for returns shipping.

   3. Shipping Label Integration – If you select the FedEx, UPS, or USPS carrier or carrier account, you can check this box. When checked, you can enable direct packing and shipping on item fulfillments.

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.

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