When looking to set up a new account with Border Express you will need to contact their IT department and advise them that you are looking to despatch your account through MachShip. This team can be contacted at integrations@borderexpress.com.au. Please CC: integrations@machship.com in your email.

Your email should be as follows:

Hi Support Team, 

I need to set up my account <insert account code> with Border Express so that I may consign with my new FMS partner MachShip. Can you please advise what my consignment note Prefix should be?

Could you please also send a copy of my rates in excel format so I may be able to upload these into the MachShip system. 

Finally can you please link my account up to MachShip to facilitate status tracking via your API. 

Once the Border team responds then we need to fill out the specific options. 

Account Code - The account code would have been provided to you when your account was set up. 

Consignment Prefix - The consignment prefix would have been provided in the email above. 

Reference Pools - Reference pools are utilized by MachShip in order to maintain a count on connote, manifest and item numbers. The reference pool will ensure that each of those numbers is unique to what we have sent to the carrier previously. More information can be obtained on reference pools here. Border Express requires the creation of just 1 reference pool, for the Connote number.

To create the reference pool select the Create Carrier Reference Pool button at the bottom of the page. 

If you are creating a new account then the Reference Pools will be set to the following fields:

Pool Name - Set as Border Connote Ref Pool <Account Code> 
Minimum Value - 1
Maximum Value - 999999 (that is six 9's)
Next Value -  1
Cyclical - No

It will appear as below:

Once created, it will appear in the drop-down below:

Should you already be trading on an existing account please set the next available field as 1000 consignments higher than the highest connote number on your previous account. 

Test:

Once the account has been set up and all of the rates have been added, you will need to run a test to ensure that upon go-live, everything will run successfully. To do this, create a consignment - please make Reference 1 and Reference 2 and the Delivery Special Instructions as THIS IS A TEST. Once this has been created please manifest the consignment to the carrier. If you experience any issues please contact support@machship.com.

If you receive a successful manifest message from MachShip then please send an email to integrations@borderexpress.com.au and advise them that you are starting to dispatch your Border Express account through MachShip and that you would like to receive verification on the test file and permission to start trade. Please include the labels pdf's for the manifest, connote, and items.

Advise the support team of the connote number and request that they should cancel this to ensure that you are not charged. Please CC: integrations@machship.com on this email so we can help if required. 

On confirmation from the support team that the setup is validated, you are free to begin to consign.