How do you guys handle shipping? ie:submitting shipments to carriers and doing labels

16 Nov 2007, 10:05 PM

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How do you guys handle shipping? ie:submitting shipments to carriers and doing labels

I am creating a website, and I am having no luck figuring out how I am going to handle shipping. I have the FedEx module up and running, which gives me quotes on shipping. I was doing a little researching on the forums and apparently noone has created a module that will handle creating labels for shipping. How do you guys handle the labels for multiple products? Do you go to your shipper's website and enter in all of the information for the labels? Or do you have some type of automated system? Thanks in advance.

17 Nov 2007, 5:04 AM

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tjizzles

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Re: How do you guys handle shipping? ie:submitting shipments to carriers and doing labels

Bump. Any suggestions?

17 Nov 2007, 5:48 AM

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Kim

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Re: How do you guys handle shipping? ie:submitting shipments to carriers and doing labels

Please don't bump your posts.

Please do not PM for support issues: a private solution doesn't benefit the community.

Be careful with unsolicited advice via email or PM - Make sure the person you are talking to is a reliable source.

17 Nov 2007, 11:56 PM

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tjizzles

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Re: How do you guys handle shipping? ie:submitting shipments to carriers and doing labels

So noone can help me or give me any pointers?

18 Nov 2007, 12:08 AM

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drbyte

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Re: How do you guys handle shipping? ie:submitting shipments to carriers and doing labels

Some do their own labels with copy/paste. Others print the packing slip and use the address on that as the label.

As to placing pickup orders with FedEx, copy/paste will work there too, or manually keying the information.

I haven't looked lately, but there may be some sort of label-printing mod in the downloads area. The problem is that everybody's output needs are unique, so one person's mod could be useless for another person, etc.

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