Advanced Shipping: Adding additional values to your script
While the Basic Shipping script provides a simple overview of creating and shipping records in NRGship Endicia Desktop Connect, it is likely that you may need to create complex shipments which include insurance and/or international shipping. By adding additional logic to your scripting you can easily add support for complex shipments.
Insured Mail
To insure a package, you will need to pass and indicator and a value by setting the following fields in the Ship_USPS table:
InsuredMail.t
Value.n
Hiding Postage
Set the value of Stealth.t in the Ship_USPS table to "true" in order to hide the actual postage amount.
Future Ship Date
Set the value of ShipDate.d to a future date and the mailing label will be post-dated.
Drop Shipments
You may want to create shipments that have an address displayed on the label that is different from the actual sending location. In order to facilitate these shipments, you will need to set values in these fields in the Ship_USPS table:
ReturnAddress1.t
ReturnAddress2.t
ReturnAddress3.t
ReturnAddress4.t
ReturnAddress5.t
ReturnAddress6.t
Note that some international shipments MUST display the actual origin address. NRGship Endicia Desktop Connect will utilize the proper addresses as needed for carrier compliance.
International Shipments
In addition to the basic ship values, you will need to populate commodities. You will also need to populate additional fields in the Ship_USPS table: (Weight values are Ounces)
Description.t
ContentsType.t
CustomsQuantity1.n
CustomsCountry1.t
CustomsDescription1.t
CustomsValue1.n
CustomsWeight1.n
CustomsQuantity2.n
CustomsCountry2.t
CustomsDescription2.t
CustomsValue2.n
CustomsWeight2.n
CustomsQuantity3.n
CustomsCountry3.t
CustomsDescription3.t
CustomsValue3.n
CustomsWeight3.n
CustomsQuantity4.n
CustomsCountry4.t
CustomsDescription4.t
CustomsValue4.n
CustomsWeight4.n
AutoPrintCustomsForms.t
CustomsCertify.t
CustomsFormType.t
CustomsSigner.t
Email Notifications
NRGship itself does not provide email notifications, but the Endicia for Mac and Dazzle for Windows applications can be configured to send email notifications.
It may be preferred to take the post-ship Ship_USPS::Response_PIC.t value and send out notifications from your own database so that you can include supplemental order information.
UPS Mail Innovations
Contact NRG Software for information on how to utilize NRGship Endicia Desktop Connect to produce UPS Mail Innovations labels using Endicia for Mac. (Not available with Dazzle for Windows)
