USPS Setup

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Setup Procedure

To enable USPS shipping calculator please follow the steps described below:

1. If you do not have a USPS webtools account number please click here to register new USPS account USPS Webtools Registration. You will receive a "Thank you for registration" e-mail with the username and the password associated with your account.

2. To activate your USPS account, send an email to icustomercare@usps.com stating, "Using third party software, no testing required. Please move to production. Thank you." Make sure to include your webtools username in the email.

3. Once your webtools account is added to the production server your account will become active immediately and shipping calculator will become active.

If you have any technical questions regarding the registration of new account please contact us by phone or send an e-mail to icustomercare@usps.com

If you choose to use Endicia to process your USPS shipments:

Definitions

Units of Measure

  • Describes the relative constant used to measure something. Example: Inches, Centimeters, Feet, pounds, kilograms. You may select the unit of measure that fits you locality, either Metric or Imperial.

Use Dimensional Weight

  • Select if you would like to base shipping calculations on dimensional weight or actual weight. Setting this option to YES will override any weight specified, and calculate shipping based on the item's dimensional weight.

Combined Shipping

  • Select if you would like to enable combined shipping for this service provider. Combined shipping will allow your customers to specify upon checkout, that they would like multiple purchases shipped together (saving money on shipping). If a customer orders multiple products, in their order the combined shipping will be based on the total of the weight and adding default dimensions together.

Consolidated Shipment Pricing

  • This selection allows you to control if a buyer will see the shipping per product during checkout or if it will be automatically added together as they checkout.

Phone Number

  • This is where you specify the phone number of the warehouse that the products are shipped from.

E-mail Address

  • Specify the contact e-mail address for the warehouse that the products are being shipped from.

Carrier Settings

Connection Type

  • Do not select Native USPS, this option will do nothing. If you are using DAZzle, select, Endicia (Dazzle). If you want to use the Endicia Label Server, call your account representative, and we will get you set up for direct USPS integration.

Auto Processing

  • Enabling this option will automatically process shipping labels for products and orders that have either: 1) successfully received an electronic payment transaction id from your configured merchant or 2) have been marked as “Payment Cleared/Received” if accepting a check or money order. Once orders or products have transaction id’s registered, shipping labels for those products will automatically be processed and ready to print to your configured printing device. You need to have Shipping Auto-Processing rules set up to use this option.

Printer Type

You can use various types of printers to print your shipping labels.
Thermal

  • Will output shipping labels on a compatible industry standard Eltron Direct Thermal Label Printer.

There are two types of industry standard direct thermal shipping labels.

  • 4” x 8” Eltron Labels
  • 4” x 6” Eltron Labels

Ink/Bubble Jet

  • Will output shipping labels/waybills on an Ink/Bubble Jet Printer

Laser

  • Will output shipping labels/waybills on a Laser printer.

Rubberstamp Values

  • Select the additional variables that you would like to print on your shipping label.

Best Practice: Printing Warehouse locations can turn your shipping labels into pick-lists to grab items off shelves. See which values will most help your business.

Endicia Account Manager

  • If you are using the Endicia Label Server Integration, you will see an extra menu that allows you to see your account balance, and purchase more postage.

Insurance Preferences

Insurance Provider
If you're using 3rd party insurance, choose the provider here. NOTE: DAZzle only supports UPIC insurance, and Endicia insurance.

Insurance Type
You can choose to require insurance, make insurance optional or turn off insurance by choosing Not Included.

Insurance Setting
Native will use the insurance that is offered by the configured shipping carrier.
Custom will disable the insurance that is offered by the configured carrier and use the insurance scale that you specify.

Insurance Fee Preferences
If you choose to have custom insurance rates, you can specify the sale amount and the insurance rate that will be offered to the buyer during checkout.

Shipping Calculator Settings

Shipping Calculator

Enabling this option will allow you to offer exact published shipping rates on your online auctions, storefront or eCommerce selling venues. The calculator utilizes your origin zip/postal, the measurements of the item, and embeds the information into you listing. Customers have the ability to enter their destination zip/postal code for a published rate estimate for shipping the item to their location. Our shipping calculator provides your customers with real-time, online shipping quotes for your products. Customers will be asked to specify their country and postal code. The actual shipping price (including any custom markups) will display in real-time. This way , there is never any confusion about shipping fees when your customers are shopping around or checking out.

Time In Transit

Enabling this option will output estimated time of arrival on the shipping calculator. This option is an informative tool for your customers. It allows them to receive an idea as to when the product will arrive at their doorstep, which will eliminate certain phone calls to your customer service staff.

Shipping Markups / Discounts

  • Here you may specify markups and discounts for shipping to the configured shipping destinations when you are utilizing the shipping calculator. You may also specify default fixed shipping rate for the configured countries, states and provinces.
  • NOTE: You must have Taxes & Shipping zones defined to view countries for this section to function properly.
  • Setting a Discount/Markup for a selected zone.
    • First select the zones you desire to configure.
    • Now select the desired function: Markup or Discount.
    • Now enter your desired rate and select whether it will be a percentage or dollar based rate.
    • For example: I configured Australia in my Taxes & Shipping zone, and now I am ready to define Markups and discounts. I select Australia and choose “Markup” then enter 5 and select % from the drop down. This means that all packages shipped to Australia will be charged 5% above published shipping rate.

Modify Selected Service Levels

  • This button, at the bottom right is VERY important. Click on it to include or exclude different service levels that you want to offer to your customers.



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