Need reference line information for UPS and Fedex, similar to what we can do when using UPS Worldship or Fedex Ship Manager.  When you ship out multiple orders a day for multiple customers, it's important to be able to use this reference information to identify given orders.  Additionally, many of our third party billing customers require that there be information in the reference lines so that they can identify the charges on their Fedex or UPS bills.

Hi Judy, 

Thanks for sharing. Your request makes total sense and I can definitely see this adding some value for you. I've added your request to our list of features to consider. Please note that the more interest we see in this request, the more likely we are to prioritize it. Thanks again! 

Somebody I spoke to there told me that you were looking to provide more features to appeal to the larger shippers, and fulfillment houses. This is a must have for fulfillment houses.

Hi Judy, 

We're always looking to provide more features for shippers of all sizes, but are focusing a lot of efforts on getting features that larger shippers need. It sounds like this is a feature that could aid in your process quite a bit. Please rest assured that we have added this to our list of features to look into offering. Thanks! 

This is a requirement for third party billing

Just installed WorldShip to fulfill third party orders, doubling effort for every order, having to duplicate efforts in both Shipping Easy and WorldShip, otherwise Inventory Tracking would be completely obsolete. Adding my vote for integrating UPS Reference Fields, at least Ref 2, to top priorities.

I hope this has been done already or this will be devastating. We will be shipping thousands of orders when our clients product is featured on Home Shopping Network and we will not be able to put any of them through Shipping Easy if this hasn't been implemented yet!!!!

Hi,   Adding that I need to map other fields to REF1 and REF2 for third party billing and internal reporting here.  Could the Custom Field 1, 2 or 3 be added the the drop downs?  I see the Amazon PO option is now in the drop down.  If I could fill that field via API with the data I need than that would work. Doesn't seem like the Amazon PO is accessible via the ShippingEasy API though.   This is pretty urgent for much of the business I'd like to move over to ShippingEasy from our other system.  This is a deal breaker right now for any 3rd party shipping for sure.

Hi Keith, and thank you for the post!

Unfortunately the Amazon PO option is strictly limited, but I'd be happy to document your request for the inclusion of Custom Fields or ability to fill via the API.

Before I do that, would you be able to share more with us about what data you would like to map to the REF1 or REF2 fields?

Thanks.

Most any warehouse that does 3rd party shipping for drop shipper (Wayfair, Amazon, Houzz, Zullilly, etc) is required to put their customers PO number and/or a system reference order number based on rules from the drop shipper.

I am almost positive there’s not a field on the shipping side called PO number?  This should be a standard place holder for nearly any and all order systems.  I currently map that into Custom Field 1 so that I can at least display it on packing slips.

2nd is a system reference number (usually my clients order number from their system).  As a 3PL we can get multiple fulfilment requests from a single order – so this is not our order number. I currently import this into the alternate_order_id via the API.

So to make nearly all my 3rd party based shippers happy –

They are looking for REF1 = alternate_order_id (their order number) and REF2 = Custom Field 1 (their PO number).

Currently all I can do is REF1=order_id (my order number that means nothing to them) and REF2=order_id or a list of product numbers.

Same with FedEx…

I can easily change my mapping to but the alternate_order_id into Customer Field 2 or 3… as it would make more programming sense to me if you just added Customer Fields 1, 2, 3 in the label config for UPS and FedEx on the drop downs… that way anyone can use them as the see fit?

Does that make sense?

Thanks!

Keith
Ok thanks.

Hi Keith,

Thanks so much for the additional details. Those definitely help, and I have logged your request and reasons indicated with our Product Team for further consideration.

If there are any updates, we will be sure to update this post and direct other customers here to share their feedback here as well!

Thanks!

Please allow us to add the code $aw in the reference field as this is required to comply with our FedEx shipping agreement. Thanks.

Hi Kym,

Thank you very much for your post! We greatly appreciate your feedback. I’ve documented your request for this feature.

If there are any updates, we will be sure to update this post and direct other customers to share their feedback here as well!

When making Manual orders there is no option to add a shipping reference and have it show up in the FedEx invoice so we know how to bill this shipment internally.

ShippingEasy has mapped “Order Number” field to FedEx field “Invoice Number” which does not reflect on FedEx Invoice for Ground Shipments but does reflect for Express shipments that are international and domestics. 

If ShippingEasy can map the field “Order Number” to FedEx field “Customer Reference” then it will show up across all FedEx Invoices. Including Express and Ground.

Yes, we really need the SE "Order Number" field to be mapped to Fedex's "Customer Reference". This is a huge issue that we have had for a very long time and when we are shipping hundreds of Fedex packages a week, for different clients, this makes it almost impossible for me to audit our Fedex bills internally and is extremely time consuming. We hope this can be fixed quickly and easily.

Hi, 

At this time, we don't have a specific release date for this feature but it is on our team's list to consider for prioritization. I've gone ahead and logged your support of this as well. 

Thanks!