How to Create Carrier Account with Fasta Courier

How to Create Carrier Account with Fasta Courier

When looking to set up a new account with Fasta Courier you will need to contact your account manager 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, 

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

Once the Fasta Courier team responds then 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 should be your Account Code. 

Reference Pools - Reference pools are utilised by MachShip in order to maintain a count on the 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.

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

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

and

Pool Name - Set as Fasta Courier 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 as 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. 

Ratecard:

Fasta Courier is configured to price off the Carriers System and as such you will need to extract and upload the ratecard in the below format. This will contain all the available services for the Fasta Courier local movements.

Notes:

1. Set your Account Code in the Ratecard Section.

2. Please set the from zone and to zone as METRO to METRO.

Carrier
Ratecard
Service
From Zone
To Zone
Reciprocal
Cubic Conversion
Basic
Minimum
Break Type
Item Type
Break From
Break To
Price
FASTA

C2
METRO
METRO
N
0
0
0
WEIGHT

0

0
FASTA

C4
METRO
METRO
N
0
0
0
WEIGHT

0

0
FASTA

CO
METRO
METRO
N
0
0
0
WEIGHT

0

0
FASTA

BS
METRO
METRO
N
0
0
0
WEIGHT

0

0

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 job- please make Reference 1 and Reference 2 and the delivery special instructions THIS IS A TEST. Once this has been created it will be booked in with the carrier. 

If you receive a successful manifest message from MachShip then please send an email to the Fasta Courier Team and advise them that you are starting to despatch your account through MachShip and that you would like to receive verification on the test file and permission to start to trade.

Please include the job 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. 







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