Shipping: Connect Carriers and Print Labels

Connect Carriers

SKUSavvy has built-in shipping for connecting carrier accounts, rate shopping, label purchase, validating addresses, and receiving tracking info. This is set up for you when you create a SKUSavvy account.

To connect your various carrier accounts, go to the carriers section In your admin company page. When you click 'Link Carrier' you'll be brought to the carrier connection portal, which is set up for you automatically when you sign up. From here you can connect any of the carriers below.

Current Carriers Available on SKUSavvy

LTL Freight Carriers

Carrier Accounts

Each carrier added to your SKUSavvy account has required pieces of information depending on the carrier. You'll need to grab these from the carrier account first. NOTE: the information on your carrier account must match the information you enter within SKUSavvy exactly.

3rd Party Shipping Account

You can utilize a partners 3rd party shipping account to ship on behalf of another company and have shipping costs paid under the 3rd party account. Enable this by first adding the carrier you want to have a 3rd party account on, then click into the carrier and add the 3rd party account details. 

First add carriers you want to support 3rd party shipping from

Click into the carrier and add 3rd party account details

Select the 3rd party account to use during fulfillment & shipping

1. Open the advanced shipping options by clicking on it

2. Select the 3rd party billing account previously added (must have that carrier enabled for the batch)

3. Save the shipping options to generate rates

Turn Off Shipping Methods

Within SKUSavvy you have the ability to turn off shipping methods from receiving rates during fulfillment that have come over from your Shopify store. This provides faster fulfillment for orders that don't require a label.

Turn off Rates for Selected Shipping Methods

Within the Shopify settings of your SKUSavvy account you'll see all rates you currently offer to customers and a check box to turn off getting rates for a specific method. 

1. View shipping methods that have come over from your Shopify store being offered to customers during checkout

2. Select the checkbox to turn labels off/on for the specified shipping method

Using Carriers for Shipping

When you fulfill order batches you can select which connected carriers you want to use to complete the batch with.

Select the 3-Dot Menu to Turn On/Off Carriers

Choose Which Carriers to Use

1. Turn on custom labels

2. Turn on/off a carrier by clicking on it

3. Pull down carrier specific shipping options

4. Turn on/off carrier specific shipping services by clicking on the checkmark

5. View other carriers connected

View and Purchase Shipping

Once you've added carriers to your SKUSavvy account, the option to ship via that carrier will automatically appear when an employee is going through the fulfillment process. The carriers with the best rate and shipping time will show up at the top of the list during fulfillment, and the rest will show accordingly at the bottom.

1. Manually mark the item as fulfilled and avoid carrier shipping labels

2. Sort the carrier services table by clicking on a column header

3. View the shipping rates by cost, service type, carrier, tacking availability, and shipment time. Tap the carrot icon to show specific carrier service options

4. View the individual carrier service options like insurance, cost to confirm delivery, fees and surcharges from the carrier

5. View all shipping rates across carriers by scrolling down the menu

Address Validation

Each address attached to an order is validated and confirmed before a shipment is made. If the order cannot be validated the system will generate an alert that the order needs to be checked. Order validation checks that the address is something the carrier can deliver to, and that the country, city, state, and street address is reachable.

Shipping an Order

Please go to the 'Order Fulfillment' guide for more information about packaging and shipping rate selection on order fulfillment.

Customs Documents & Tax

Within SKUSavvy there are a several customs and tax considerations that need to be made when shipping internationally. First you should enter the shipper entity number for either EIN, VAT, SSN, EORI, IOSS, PAN, TIN, VOEC. 

Choose Customs Declared Value

When a shipment is made, the value of those items in the shipment are sent to the carrier. As a result if you have items on an order with a discount the value of the items that should be declared can vary. SKUSavvy enables either the discounted value or the full value of the product to be sent to carriers for reporting and taxes. 

Choose Terms of Trade

Terms of trade enables you to set who will be paying for duties and other fees on goods being transferred. These terms can be referred to as incoterms as seen below.

Supported Terms of Trade within SKUSavvy

Any

DDP

Delivery Duty Paid (place of destination)

EXW

Ex Works (place of delivery)

FCA

Free Carrier (place of delivery)

CPT

Carriage Paid to (place of destination)

CIP

Carriage and Insurance Paid to (place of destination)

DAP

Deliver at Place (place of destination)

DPU

Delivered at Place Unloaded (place of destination)

Waterway

FAS

Free Alongside Ship (port of landing)

FOB

Free on Board (port of loading)

CFR

Cost and Freight (port of destination)

CIF

Cost Insurance and Freight (port of destination)

Set a default Terms of Trade for the whole company under Company > Settings > International, so every new international shipment starts with your usual Incoterm already selected. You can still override it per shipment in Advanced Options.