Has anyone ever written a script to get real time freight rates in Epicor? Would like to have it either on quotes or sales orders.
Thanks
Is this from an on-line source or from a table of charges?
It would be from an online source. Looking to pull it directly from FedEx
I can tell you from experience that both FedEx and UPS will give you ‘technology credit’ money if you ship enough with them. Check with your FedEx and UPS reps.
We already had Epicor’s Insite Manifest in place (now Quick Ship Pro), but the credits would have paid for our license. You may get enough to pay for all or most of a real shipping solution that integrates right into Epicor without any customizations.
Hi Tommy, thanks for responding. Do you know if the Quick Ship Pro integrates with FedEx Ship Manager to give you real time rates at the Sales Order?
Quick Ship Pro has rate shopping that works with FedEx and UPS. you can rate shop from Sales Order Entry and Customer Shipment Entry. Can’t remember if Quoting was included or not. Worked pretty slick when I beta tested the functionality.
You don’t need UPS Worldship or FedEx Ship Manager / Toolbox to do any rating with Quick Ship Pro. Quick Ship Pro uses the carriers API at Customer Shipment Entry to get real time rates, adds the freight rate as a misc charge back into the orders, and puts the tracking number in the pack. You can also use it with a misc pack.
Any more questions, just ask. We’ve been using it and Insite Manifest since 2013.
@TommyD I am curious can that process but automated with a bpm at the time of order entry? This way it’s just a call at the time of entering the order. What happens if at invoicing the order was only partially filled at that point in time?
I know Quickship can give you freight quotes, but we’re not using it like that, so I’m not going to be much help in that regard.
At shipment (customer shipment entry), the freight is based on what actually ships in that pack, and the actual freight amount returned by the carrier, plus any markup you add, is pushed into the order as a misc charge (which you can still adjust). The misc charge shows up on the invoice as freight if you configure it that way.