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Shipping

BBL provides a Shipping integration feature that will interface directly with the carrier’s computer systems using no third-party software. Shipments can be created and shipping labels printed directly from the ProfitSystem. The feature saves time and improves efficiency. Three benefits are obtained by using the integration.

Integration Benefits

The shipment address, phone number, reference, weight, and email are automatically transferred to the carrier without the need to retype any of the information.

Shipping Process

The shipping process is broken down into two steps: 1. Creating a Ship Record , with the ship-to address and other details about the package. This is normally done from the Ticket form, as the sale is being made. This lets the operator record a different ship-to address versus the customers address. Additionally, the ship record has fields to select the desired carrier and shipping method (ground, 2-day, overnight, etc.) Creating the ship record is usually done long before the actual ship label is printed, usually during the sale process. 2. Shipping the package and printing a ship label. Note that you can skip step 1 in some cases, such as shipping rental orders, where you mark the rental order as shipped and print the ship label in one step.

So, the following types of shipments can be created in the ProfitSystem

  • Ship Customer Items: Used to ship items from pickup inventory, or directly from a sale, to a customer. On the Ticket form as sale time, click Item Status, then Customer Shipping. This tags the highlighted sales transaction for shipping. It creates a shipping record for the highlighted sales item. Shipping address, method and other shipping information may be entered in the record. Items tagged for shipping will display in the on the Ship Customer Items form. Using this, the sales associate can enter the shipment details at sale time, and at shipment time those details are transferred directly to the shipping form.
  • Ship Rental Orders to Customers or Pickup locations: Does not create a Ship Record. When using the Ship form to mark rental orders as shipped, you can choose to print a ship label at ship time.
  • Create a shipment going to a vendor: Creates a ship record. From the vendor from, click Create Shipment. This will create a shipping record that can be later shipped (and a ship label printed) via the Ship Customer items form.

Printing Ship Labels

When actually shipping a Ship Record, or shipping a rental order directly, the ship labels can be printed in one of three ways, depending on your needs. The carrier’s tracking number, service used, weight, shipping cost, value, reference and ship date will automatically be inserted into the ProfitSystem ship record. The tracking number in ProfitSystem allows for ProfitSystem users whom have internet access to quickly obtain shipment status/details directly from the carrier.

ShipRush Web: A 3rd party web-based service that can print ship labels for UPS, FedEx, and US Postal service.

Declared value should be entered directly with the Shipping Integration module when the shipper’s insurance is utilized. Third party insurer’s requires that the declared value is $0 with the shipper and the true value is entered within Winos. This feature is controlled in the System Setup - Integration tab. See Shipping Insurance for more information about third party insurance.