Shipment process basic understanding

Using my Dolibarr CRM/SRM Modules
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Hello,

I do not understand, how doli supports the shipment of items. I found this page, but could not really get the clou out of it. My basic qustions are:

  • in an order, under “kind of shipping” I can only choose “courier service” and “inhouse collection”. But I need to define my own parcel sizes with their prices - where can I do that?
  • I need the customers’ addresses forwarded to my shipping services (at the moment, I’m using jumingo.com and packlink.de). A CSV export of the address and parcel data would be a nice first step - how can that be obtained?
  • Furtheron, I’d like shipping services’ API and dolibarr’s API to communicate. Yes, this is likely to be more complicated - is there a place (document) where is explained how to begin with?
    I’ll be happy to collect my findings and provide a shipping HOWTO (in case I get that far… (:slight_smile:

Cheers,
Wolf

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Hi,

All your questions are not answered by the module.
The shipment module in dolibarr is doing :

  • Creating a picking sheet with weight or volume
  • Management of the stock is updated automatically when you make a new shipment. And record of your stock movement are directly linked to the shipment.
  • Add a tracking number and a direct link link to the transporter tracking tool that is automatically filled.
  • Generate the PDF of the shipment sheet and print it for your transporter or send it by email directly from the application to any partner.
  • Manage / generate a delivery receipt .

For your first question, may be that : https://www.dolistore.com/en/modules/346-Shipping-Cost.html
The connexion with External transporter API ( jumingo.com / packlink.de / what ever) it is not part of the module. You can find some modules on the dolistore (exemple : https://www.dolistore.com/en/modules/1185-Shippinglabels-for-Colissimo.html)

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Thank you so much for your reply. I got forward one step.

How can I as I did not yet communicate with my shipping service provider? - Let’s please not assume I copied all the shipping data manually into his service forms… Basic would be to have a configurable CSV export for that - the luxury version would be the API…

I tried to find out more about the shpiment service modules, but info is not abundant. But I keep trying.

Cheers,
Wolf