When
looking to set up a new account with Burra Couriers, you will need to coordinate with your account
manager to contact their team and advise them that you are looking to despatch
your account through MachShip. Please cc integrations@machship.com in
your email.
Your email should be as follows:
Hi Team,
I need to set up my account <insert account
code> with Burra Couriers so that I may consign with my new FMS
partner MachShip. Can you please advise what my consignment note
prefix should be?
Can you also configure to have Status updates and
PODS pushed back via the MachShip API
Once the Burra Couriers team responds and confirms that this is all approved, we need to
fill out the specific options. These are:
Account Code - The account code would
have been provided to you when your account was set up.
Consignment Prefix- The
consignment prefix will have been provided to you in the email sent above.
Reference Pools -
Reference pools are utilized by MachShip in order to maintain a
count on connotes, manifests, and item numbers. The reference pool will ensure
that each of those numbers is unique to what we previously sent to the carrier.
More information can be obtained on reference pools here. Burra Couriers 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 Burra Couriers Connote Ref
Pool <Account Code>
Minimum Value - 1
Maximum Value - 999999 (that is six 9's)
Next Available Reference - 1
Cyclical - No
It will
appear as below:
Once
created, it will appear in the drop-down below:
Once done,
click on the Save Carrier Account button.
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 the rates have been added, you
will need to run a test to ensure that everything will run successfully upon
go-live. To do this, create a consignment - please make Reference 1 and
Reference 2 and the delivery special instructions 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,
please email your account manager and advise them that you are starting to
despatch your Burra Couriers account through MachShip and would like to
receive verification that the job has been successfully received.
Advise Burra Couriers 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.