Despatch Training - Quote, Consign, Manifest and Track your Dangerous Goods freight in MachShip

Despatch Training - Quote, Consign, Manifest and Track your Dangerous Goods freight in MachShip

This article will provide a simple end to end breakdown of how you can go about quoting, creating, manifesting and tracking Dangerous Goods consignments in MachShip. 

In order to understand how to configure your company to consign with dangerous goods, please refer to the article linked below:

How to Setup your Organisation to Consign Dangerous Goods

How to Create a Quote

Here you will find the instructions on how you can simply and quickly generate a freight quote in MachShip

Below our world-class trainers will help you to understand the simple way in which you can generate and create Dangerous consignments within the MachShip platform. 

How to Create a Dangerous Goods Consignment:

  • Create Consignment

This consignment creation method will enable you to query MachShip for freight prices so that you may pick the best transport option for your delivery. 

 

How to Manifest a Dangerous Goods Consignments in MachShip

In this video, our trainers from the MachShip  Customer Success team will help you through the process of Manifesting. Manifesting is the method of pushing consignment data over to the transport provider and if required booking in a pickup. 


How to Track Consignments in MachShip

In this video, our training team outlines the many ways that you can utilise the MachShip platform to track your consignments

All of the features outlined above will all enable you to complete the standard daily tasks within the MachShip platform. Below we describe some miscellaneous and additional features that MachShip contains which can help to streamline the consignment creation process. 

Miscellaneous/ Additional Features

- How to Edit a Consignment 

Made a mistake creating a consignment? Need to change the order at the last minute? See below for how you can easily edit a consignment in MachShip. 

- How to Delete a Consignment:

Last-minute cancellation? Order no longer required? Here our Customer Success team will provide you with a simple run-down on how to delete a consignment in MachShip

- How to Create and Import Saved Company Items 

Frustrated at needing to constantly enter in the same shipping item and dimensions again and again? Utilise MachShip's saved company items feature to streamline your consignment creation process

- How to Create and Import Saved Company Locations

Frustrated at needing to constantly enter in the same shipping location details again and again? Utilise MachShip's saved company locations feature to streamline your consignment creation process

- How to Setup, Configure and Install the MachShip Automated Printing Application

If you wish to have all your shipping labels produced and printed at the click of a button follow the instructions below in how to set up, configure and install the MachShip Printing Application

Step 1: How to Set Up a Printer in MachShip

Step 2: How to Configure a Printer in MachShip

This will allows you to tell MachShip when, where and how many labels to print. 

Step 3: How to Set Up Printer Configuration Evaluation

This will allow you to setup customised logic to further direct the printing of labels and paperwork in MachShip

Step 4: How to install and Test the MachShip Printing Application

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