We have a customer that prefers us to master pack--packing several small boxes into a single larger box--so they don’t receive so many individual packages.
Here’s our current process:
- In Acumatica, we pack everything into small boxes (for example, a box with carton ID C01) and enter the contents and weight for each small box. We can usually fit about six C01 boxes into one larger box, a C08.
- We then move to ShipRush (third-party shipping software), where we enter the dimensions for the large/master box (the C08), generate the FedEx shipping labels, and manually add the master box with the tracking numbers back into the shipment in Acumatica.
- In Acumatica, we use a dummy Ship Via (ShipRush FedEx), instead of FedEx Ground, so it doesn’t automatically populate tracking numbers.
This method works, but it feels clunky.
My question:
Is there a way to master pack directly in Acumatica without relying on ShipRush? For example: could we create a special carton ID (like “CIP”-carton inner pack) and have FedEx Ground only generate shipping labels for those CIP cartons, rather than every carton listed on the Packages tab?
If anyone has solved this--whether with native ACM functionality, customization, or a different integration--I’d really like to hear how you’ve approached it.
