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Overview Of the "Customer Self Service eCommerce Platform" Freight Capabilities

Overview

The Customer Self Service eCommerce Platform has a wide variety of capabilities when it comes to calculating and charging freight, including custom connections to external freight provider APIs. This page describes at a high level what the application can do. Contact Commerce Vision for more information on any of these functions and options.

Standard Freight

Does your business handle and set delivery costs based on a set of factors such as order total, weight, postcode, or a combination of these? For example, your business uses Australia Post options for non-bulky items and a road freight courrier for overweight/volume items? Standard freight options are configured and controlled on your Commerce Vision website. You can set a range of carrier options and add surcharges for things such as for dangerous or bulky goods.

Allows for unlimited carriers to be defined.
For each carrier, unlimited charging zones can be set up. A charging zone contains a start and end postcode within a country.
Minimum weight allowed
Maximum weight allowed
Maximum volume allowed
Order Limit for no charge - this defines the value the customer needs to buy before they get free freight
Start and End Order Value range - this is useful when it is required to have different freight amounts based on dollar value (handy where weight is not defined on products)
Volume to weight conversion
Track and Trace URL
Calculation of freight can be done using (base $ + $ / kg) OR % of Order total
See our Standard Freight help page for more information.

Universal Freight API

Do you partner with an external freight provider and want your Commerce Vision ecommerce platform integrated with their freight software? This solution allows your website to communicate directly with freight provider's software and automatically log delivery info with them when your customer places a delivery order. Our universal freight API has been developed for this scenario.

Extends capabilities to connect to external custom freight providers such as Sendle, Couriers and Freight, Machship, Sherpa.
To explore this option for your site, consult Commerce Vision.

Region Freight (for PRONTO)

If your business uses PRONTO as the ERP and a debtor with delivery sequence have been set up for each customer, this can be integrated to your website. Freight is then charged based on regions defined against the Debtor Account in PRONTO.

Region Freight is incompatible with Standard Freight.

Allows for a rule to be set up that can be assigned to a debtor (normally B2B only). it is linked to the debtors delivery sequence which is maintained in PRONTO
Allows for start and end order values
Calculation of freight is either a flat $ charge OR % of order value
Supports product group exclusions or inclusions
See our Region Freight (Pronto) help page for more information

Product Type Freight

Do some of your product offerings need special freight and handling options? If your site uses Standard Freight, you can specify product types and their particular shipping requirements.

Works with Standard freight
Allows for product types to be defined to handle bulky products (e.g. trampolines)
Overrides standard freight for those items

Other Features

Allow for a range of click and collect options
Allow for quoting when no freight zone
Cater for dangerous or bulky/non-shippable goods
Define charge types
Set Product Delivery restrictions (product vs postcode or country) Restrictions
Supports live freight calls to PRONTO or other ERPs.

Additional Information

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Minimum Version Requirements

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Prerequisites

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Self Configurable

Standard Freight

Business Function

Orders

BPD Only?

Yes

B2B/B2C/Both

Both

Third Party Costs

n/a

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