Freight Postcodes
Your freight postcodes are the postcodes for which you will be having orders delivered to.
As your business expands you can always add extra postcodes into the system
The freight postcode section is where you can set up the postcodes for a region. So you might have postcodes for 4000,4001, 4002 for the Queensland region and 6000, 6001 for the West Australian region.
There is a data entry screen for where you have only a few postcodes to load, or a spreadsheet import facility if you have lots. Note that because this works off of suburb and postcode, you need to enter a record for each one individually. You can’t enter a from/to range of postcodes.
The postcodes are linked to a Courier Company and, optionally, a Freight Set. If you need to set up any postcodes for your own freight, you will most likely import for Courier Company of Unknown and the Freight Set you have created.
If you plan to use postcodes like this, the recommended way to work is as follows:
Create your Freight Set. Set up everything except the regions. Save the freight set.
Now create your postcodes. Each postcode will be given a region code to which it belongs.
Go back to your Freight Set and press the Update From Postcodes button. This will find the linked postcodes, get all the distinct region codes and create a region record for each of those codes.
You will find your postcodes under ITEMS >> Freight Postcodes.
From this page you can create new freight postcodes or search for existing.
Selecting the NEW button will bring up a page for you to input all relevant data for a new freight postcode. Every section except State must be filled in to save the postcode to your system.
Once postcodes have been added to the system, they will appear as below showing: courier, postcode, suburb, state and zone.
Clicking on a row will allow you to edit the information for that postcode.
You can also import large lists of postcodes by going to ITEMS >> Import Freight Postcodes
Simply set the relevant courier and insert your data file in the attachment box. Make sure that your data file includes postcode, suburb and region columns.
