Shipping
UPS
ConFlowIO books through your own UPS account and gives the costs of every service on a route in advance, with your negotiated rates if wanted. Outside the EU, UPS creates the commercial invoice along with it, and it comes back as a PDF.
Labels come as an image (GIF) or for label printers (ZPL, EPL). Access Points, pickups and return labels have building blocks of their own.
A pickup already booked for that day and address is recognised.
- UPSShipping
- ConFlowIOintegration platformRun active
- Xentral
- plentyONE
- Salesforce Commerce Cloud
- 9ready-made building blocks
- 7data models in the Shipping Bundle
Building blocks
Nine building blocks for UPS
- Create shipmentsWrite
Books shipments through your own UPS account, several packages with one parcel and label each; outside the EU with a commercial invoice as PDF. Labels as GIF or for label printers (ZPL, EPL).
- Return labelWrite
Creates a standalone return label with UPS, without an outbound shipment.
- Look up shipping costsRead
Gives the costs of every service on a route in advance, with your negotiated rates if wanted.
- Find Access PointsRead
Finds UPS Access Points near an address as uniform records — to offer them at checkout, for instance. A shipment can be addressed there; if the details do not match, it is rejected rather than sent to the home address.
- Book pickupWrite
Books a pickup with UPS; one already booked for that day and address is recognised.
- Cancel pickupWrite
Cancels a booked pickup.
- TrackingRead
Reads the state of a shipment at UPS, with the delivery forecast and the time of delivery where UPS provides them, and, where available, who accepted the parcel. On explicit request, it stores the proof of delivery with signature as a file.
- CancelWrite
Cancels a booked shipment.
- Free request
For anything without a ready-made building block: a request to the API, using the stored credentials.
In practice
Two workflows with UPS
Shipping label for an order
One mapping for every carrier, instead of one per carrier.
- Readorders from shop, marketplace or ERP
- Maporder onto a shipment with its packages in the Shipping Bundle
- Createone parcel with label per package at UPS
- Storethe labels as files
One mapping for every carrier, including shipments outside the EU.
Costs before booking
Which service a shipment is booked with should depend on the price.
- Maporder onto a shipment in the Shipping Bundle
- Look upcosts of every service on the route, with your negotiated rates if wanted
- Choosethe service by your rule
- Createshipment with label at UPS
The service is chosen before booking, not noticed on the invoice afterwards.
Good to know
What to know about UPS
- PrerequisiteA contract on your side.
- A business customer contract with UPS
- UPS's approval for API access
- Shipping BundleA Shipping Bundle of its own describes shipments, packages, parcels, service points, shipping rates and pickups uniformly, the same for every carrier.
- One mapping turns an order into a shipment
- Which carrier creates the label is decided by the last building block
- Several packages are created with one parcel and label per package
- Changing carrier leaves the mapping untouched
- DurabilityApplies to this integration as to every workflow in ConFlowIO.
- Failed steps retry themselves
- Large reads are processed page by page, each page a step of its own
- A failed run is continued rather than started over
- Live logs per step, with credentials removed
Works well with
What works with UPS
Where the orders come from
One mapping for the shipment, whichever carrier.
- XentralRead sales orders and turn them into shipments
- plentyONESales orders from plentyONE become shipments
- Salesforce Commerce CloudRead orders; the tracking number goes into a custom attribute of the order
- AmazonConfirm shipment with the tracking number
- eBayReport shipment with the tracking number
- SendcloudMore carriers through one account, the same mapping
Contact
See UPS on your own data
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