How do I create a 'shipping manifest' for your products against the orders at your own store/the orders at marketplace channels?
To create a 'shipping manifest' for your products against the orders at your own store/the orders at marketplace channels, do the following:
- Log in to the 'Anywhere Commerce Control Panel' by using your User Name (Email Address) and Password.
- You will be navigated to the Dashboard page.
- Click the
icon. The Orders & Leads section will be displayed as shown in the figure.
- Click Manifest. You will be navigated to the Manifest(s) page.
- You can find the available manifests (if any) under the List of Manifests section.
- You can also search the required manifests through the multiple search options provided here.
- To create a manifest, click Create Manifest. The Create Manifest page will be displayed.
- There are two tabs here - My Orders and Marketplace Link Orders. By default, the My Orders tab will be selected.
- Scenario 1: Creating the manifest against your store orders:
- To create the manifest against your store orders, go to the My Orders tab. Select the respective logistic provider to whom you are creating the 'Shipping Manifest' from the Logistic Providers drop-down in the Select Provider dialog box.
- Select the store location from where the products will be shipped from the Location drop-down.
- Click Submit. The dialog box will be closed and the manifest will be created against the logistics provider.
- Scenario 2: Creating the manifest against the orders at marketplace channel:
- To create the manifest against the orders at marketplace channel, click the MarketplaceLink Orders tab. You will be displayed the following fields.
- Note: The MarketplaceLink Orders tab will be displayed only when you are connected with some marketplace channels through 'Sellerworx'.
- Select the channel, where the orders are raised from the Channels drop-down.
- Here you have two types of shipping - i) Shipping is handled by you and ii) Shipping is handled by the Marketplace Channel.
- Note: The logistic providers will be filtered (listed) based on marketplace channel selection. That means, when you select the channel, the respective logistic providers will be listed under the Marketplace Providers drop-down as per the selected marketplace channel based on the type of shipping - (i.e. 'Shipping is handled by you' or 'Shipping is handled by the Marketplace Channel') that is configured to your store.
- Select the respective logistic provider from the Marketplace Providers drop-down.
- Select the store location from where the products will be shipped from Location drop-down.
- Click Submit. The dialog box will be closed and the manifest will be created against the logistics provider.
- The manifest is created now. You can add the products to the manifest by scanning the AWB numbers or by manually entering the AWB numbers.
Procedure for scanning the AWB Numbers:
- To scan the AWB numbers scan one-by-one AWB numbers, and the respective products will be added to the manifest. Once the scanning is completed, click
. The dialog box will be closed and the products of the scanned AWB numbers will be displayed on the Create Manifest section.
- You can delete the products that you don't want to include in the manifest (if any) by clicking the respective
icons.
- You can also add some more products (if required) by clicking Add New (i.e. through manual entry of AWB numbers) or Scan (i.e. through scanning AWB numbers) buttons.
- If you don't want to add any more products to this manifest, and if you want to finalize the manifest, click
. The manifest will be closed and the respective shipments will be moved to the Dispatched orders list. You will be displayed a success message.
- Note:
- If a manifest is closed, you can't do further modifications to it.
- So, close the manifest only when it is final.
- If you think you may modify the manifest in future, leave it as it is. The added products will be retained with the manifest.
- Now you can download, print, or email the manifest to the courier person.
- Navigate to Manifest(s) page and you can find the manifest under List of Manifests section.
- To download the shipping manifest in the Excel format (if required) or pdf format (if required), click the respective
icon or
icon respectively under Actions column. The Manifest.xlsx or ManifestReports.pdf file will be downloaded respectively.
- To send these files directly to the shipping service provider, click the respective
icon under Actions column. You will be displayed Shipping Manifest Report dialog box.
- Enter the email id of the logistic services provider in the To text box.
- You can also edit the subject if required from the respective field.
- To send the mail, click Send. The mail will be sent with Manifest.xlsx or ManifestReports.pdf attachments and you will be displayed a relevant success message.
Procedure for manually adding the AWB Numbers:
- Enter the AWB number for which you want to create manifest in the scan code text box and click Submit. The products of the AWB number will be added to the manifest.
- Similarly, add all the required AWB numbers.
- Click
to close the dialog box.
- You can also add some more products (if required) by clicking Add New (i.e. through manual entry of AWB numbers) or Scan (i.e. through scanning AWB numbers) buttons.
- If you don't want to add any more products to this manifest, and if you want to finalize the manifest, click Close. The manifest will be closed and the respective shipments will be moved to Dispatched. You will be displayed a success message.
- Note:
- If a manifest is closed, you can't do further modifications in it.
- So, close the manifest only when it is final.
- If you think you may modify the manifest in future, leave it like this. The added products will be retained with the manifest.
- Now you can download, print, or email the manifest to courier person.
- Navigate to Manifest(s) page and you can find the manifest under List of Manifests section.
- To download the shipping manifest in Excel format (if required) or pdf format (if required), click the respective
icon or
icon respectively under Actions column. The Manifest.xlsx or ManifestReports.pdf file will be downloaded respectively.
- To send these files to directly to the shipping service provider, click the respective
icon under the Actions column. You will be displayed a Shipping Manifest Report dialog box.
- Enter the email id of the logistic services provider in the To text box.
- You can also edit the subject if required from the respective field.
- To send the mail, click Send. The mail will be sent with Manifest.xlsx or ManifestReports.pdf attachments and you will be displayed a relevant success message.
Hyperlink for Trip ID
- The LogiNext Logistics Provider delivers the shipment items to the end users through some delivery vans on regular trips every day.
- Each trip is denoted by a Trip ID, which will be associated with the manifest id while creating shipments through LogiNext's portal.
- The 'Trip ID' is a hyperlink and you can view it in the Anywhere Commerce Control under the List of Manifests section in the Manifest(s) page.
- Upon clicking the 'Trip ID', you will be navigated to the LogiNext's tracking page, where you can find the current location of the trip. So, the 'Trip ID' is helpful in finding the status of the shipment that is dispatched through the LogiNext Logistics Provider.