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Shipment Methods

Shipment methods in Business Central determines the freight payer, delivery terms and delivery terms location on a consignment.

Note

For domestic consignments it is the Payer and Paying Customer No. fields on the consignment that decides who the carrier will invoice for the freight. For international deliveries the terms of delivery code decides who the carrier will invoice. Even for international deliveries the Payer field is used internally in Logtrade Connect to decide if an automatic price query should be sent to Logtrade or not.

Note

These settings only specifies who the carrier will invoice for the freight. If you want charge your customer for the freight, the carrier shall invoice your company using your carrier customer number.

Settings

Click here to learn more about shipment methods.

Click here to learn more about shipping agent customer numbers.

Workflow

Domestic consignment with Payer = Sender

In this scenario the carrier will invoice your company for the freight.

  1. Setup a shipment method with Code = EXW. The default payer is Sender, so you do not have to setup payer on the shipment method.
  2. Create a consignment and specify the shipment method code above.
  3. Verify that Payer on the consignment has the value Sender and that Paying Customer No. has got it's value from the consignment address with Type = Sender.

International consignment with Payer = Sender

  1. Link a terms of delivery code to the shipment method created in the previous scenario.
  2. Create a consignment for an international customer with the shipment method above and the shipping agent and shipping agent service you used when you linked the delivery term to a terms of delivery code.
  3. Verify that Payer on the consignment has the value Sender and that Paying Customer No. is blank.
  4. Verify that the field Terms of Delivery Code on the consignment has a value.

Domestic consignment with Payer = Recipient

In this scenario the carrier will invoice the recipient for the freight.

  1. Specify a carrier customer number for a customer
  2. Setup the shipment method EXW created in the previous scenario so that payer is Recipient.
  3. Create a consignment and specify the shipment method code above.
  4. Verify that Payer on the consignment has the value Recipient and that Paying Customer No. has got it's value from the consignment address with Type = Recipient.
  5. Try to calculate freight cost on the consignment. You will get an error message since Payer = Recipient.

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