When looking to set up a new account with LOCAL_FREIGHT 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 Support Team, 

I need to set up my account <insert account code> with LOCAL_FREIGHT so that I may consign with my new FMS partner MachShip. 

Can you please set up my account so that the below-tracking status and POD updates are forwarded through to the MachShip FTP server. 

 

Once LOCAL_FREIGHT 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 can be any 3 letter prefix you desire.

Reference Pools - Reference pools are utilised 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 have sent to the carrier previously. More information can be obtained on reference pools here. Local Freight 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.

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

Pool Name - Set as LocalFreight 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 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. 

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 set with 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 your account manager and advise them that you are starting to despatch your Local Freight account through MachShip and that you would like to receive verification that the job has been successfully received. 

Advise your account manager 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 Local Freight team that the setup is validated, you are free to begin to consign.