Using Parcel Items

Owned by Michelle Cabaya (Unlicensed)
May 13, 2022
3 min read

Requires X Dispatch 19.2 or newer and Nextstop 3.

Parcel items can be created with a required quantity input that can be nestled under available parcel types for each customer, so drivers can provide important information for each parcel so drivers can provide quantity detail of items contained within a parcel.

Example

A parcel has 7 parcel items, 3 red and 4 blue.

 

Instructions

Set up the parcel items and parcel type enforcement in X Dispatch.

You must have the “Parcel Items” and “Edit Parcel Items” permission enabled. See Users (Classic Operations App).

  1. Go to Maintenance → Parcel Items.

  2. Add a new parcel item. See Parcel Items (Classic Operations App).

  3. Optional. Change the parcel type enforcement for a customer in the Parcel Types tab of the customer record. See Customers - New/Edit Customer.

Changes to the parcel type enforcement in the customer record will override the settings in Maintenance → Parcel Items.

Example

You have created a parcel item with the Parcel Type Global Enforcement set to “Optional” and “Specimen“ as an Available Parcel Type, but one customer requires the parcel item count.

Go to the customer record. In the Parcel Types tab, check “Specimen” under Available Parcel Types and check Allow Parcel Items. Click in the Parcel Type Enforcement for “Red Top”.

For the Parcel Type “Specimen”, change the Enforcement to “Required” then click OK and save the customer record.

In Nextstop

Now when a driver picks up or delivers a “Specimen” parcel type for the customer, the driver must enter the number of Parcel Items to complete the stop in Nextstop.

 

 

 

In X Dispatch

The parcel refrigeration type will display in the Parcels tab of the route stop form (or orders form).

 

 

 

 

In Rapidship

The parcel refrigeration type will display in Track Order and Route Tracking. Click the link View under Assignments.

 

 

 

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