How Shipping Automation Works?

Intechnic’s integrated Shipping Automation System will save you time and money by fully automating shipment of your products. As part of the checkout process, the shopping cart/e-commerce system will automatically present available shipping methods to the customer. The Shipping Automation System will automatically connect to the carrier’s servers (via the each of the carreirs' Shipping API) to determine prices and availability based on source, destination, dimensions, expediency of shipping, and weight of the products. The price received from the shipping carrier’s system can be marked up to include handling charges.

Once the customer selects a shipping method and following the approval of the order, the system will automatically schedule an order pickup with the carrier. The system will create an order directly in the chosen carrier’s system, assign the order to the appropriate account, and pass along all of the required shipping information. Once the order is created, the system will automatically generate an official shipping label that can be printed by the administrator and attached to the package that is being sent to the customer. The pick-up ticket will then be automatically issued for the carrier to pick up the package.

Discounted Pricing

Intechnic Corporation has developed strategic partnerships with businesses that resell shipping services for various carriers. These partnerships allow for reduced pricing on shipping when Intechnic builds web sites with full shipping integration into one of the major carriers. Since all online vendors need to ship their products to customers and since there are so many that sell similar products, the discounted shipping price, at times, is what allows one web site to gain an edge on the competition. Discounted Pricing will allow your business to gain that edge.

In many cases, customers purchasing products have their own UPS™, DHL™, USPS™, and FedEx™ accounts and prefer to use them, as they may receive a discount on their account. The Shipping Automation System can be fitted to accept third party accounts and charge the shipping cost directly to those accounts.

Shipping Carrier API Integration & Development

Intechnic Corporation is an active member of the UPS™, DHL™, USPS™, and FedEx™ Developer’s program, and ww are one of the few developers in the world to pass scrupulous certifications by UPS™, DHL™, and FedEx™. We can integrate their API functionality with your company’s internal systems or create a custom solution which can operate everything from shipping estimates, finding nearest store locations and drop boxes, and submitting domestic and international orders, to scheduling pickups, printing shipping labels, tracking packages, or even viewing signatures of the recipients. All of this functionality can be seamlessly integrated so that your customers never have to leave your website. Furthermore, if you choose to implement solutions for several carriers, the system is designed in such a way so as to reduce the per-carrier cost of implementation as more carriers are introduced.

Order Tracking

The website can also be equipped with an Order Tracking mechanism that will let the customers and the administrator know the location of the shipped package and the estimated delivery time. The website will show the same tracking information as is visible on one of the four carriers’ respective websites. The Order Tracking functionality not only allows everyone the convenience of knowing where the package is at any given moment, but also significantly reduces costs for manually handling customer inquiries.

Additional Benefits

Intechnic Corporation understands that there isn’t just a single factor that requires attention if a business is to be as profitable as possible. Customer satisfaction and well priced merchandize, however important, may be eclipsed, by an inefficient and wasteful management of product packaging and delivery mechanisms. An automated shipping system will allow your business to automatically manage many aspects that currently may require many employees working full time. That can translate into a significant savings.

 

 

 

Shipping Automation Features

• Automate entire shipping process: get rates, print or void labels, schedule pickups, and more
• Automatically mark-up shipping costs
• Save money on shipping costs by automatically choosing the best carrier or use a carrier volume discount account number
• Save time by batch printing labels, invoices and receipts
• Keep valid records – see all your pending, processed, voided, returned, and archived shipments and orders
• Get reports on your shipping costs and maintain valid accounting records
• Automatically e-mail shipping confirmations and tracking numbers to customers
• Customize to fit your e-commerce store, mail center, shipping department, warehouse
• Integrates with inventory management
• Support with a UPS, DHL, USPS, FedEx, and Canada Post certified developer