Sometimes you may have orders in ChannelShipper that you will despatch with a courier other than Royal Mail, or by courier services that create their own labels, such as Amazon Prime orders.
If your order has imported from an eCommerce marketplace, we can pass tracking data and the shipping method that you enter back to the order in your store.
By marking an order as 'Despatched by other courier', ChannelShipper will exclude it from your dashboard figures. This also prevents the order from downloading in again if deleted from ChannelShipper.
Marking as despatched by other courier manually
To begin, go to your Orders page, and select an order in 'New' status that you wish to mark as despatched by another courier. If the order has already had postage applied, you will need to reset it back to 'New' status.
Click the order to expand the order information. To mark as 'Despatched by other courier', click the 'other actions' drop down box and press 'Go'.
A dialogue box will ask you to add some additional information. The following are all optional fields.
Carrier name: Choose the carrier form the list provided
Shipping method: Type the method chosen, such as 'UK Next Day Delivery'
Tracking Number: Type the tracking number you were provided by the other courier. ChannelShipper cannot produce these for you at present. if your integration settings allow shipping updates, we will pass this tracking number to your eCommerce marketplace.
Your order will now be in 'Despatched by other courier' status.
Please note, once your order is marked as despatched by another courier, you will not be able to apply postage to the order, generate a label for the order, or mark it as despatched.
You will be able to delete the order, or restore it back to 'New' status using the 'other actions' drop down box.
Marking as despatched by other courier via shipping rules
For some customers, all orders from a specific store, or orders with a specific in store postage method will always be shipped by another courier. You can create a shipping rule to handle these orders automatically.
First, you will need to create your shipping rule. If you are not already familiar with shipping rules, please find our guide here: How to create shipping rules.
When creating or editing a shipping rule, navigate to the 'Postage details to apply' section and check the box marked 'Mark as despatched by other courier', then click the 'Next' button and then the 'Save' button on the next window.
All orders which conform to this shipping rule will now be instantly marked as 'Despatched by other courier'.