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Looking at working on integrations with our shipping broker, and we are investigating how to pass along dimensions for items we ship through them regularly.  I know where is box dimensions that can be captured, but I believe those only come into play during a shipment.  We are trying to store these at the stock item, so that when we create a new stock item that we want our broker’s system to know about, that data is readily available to pull.

Does anyone have any best practices?  We are currently looking at either adding the information as attributes, or adding customs fields to the packaging tab on the stock item record.

Generally, Attributes provide more flexibility to a non-coder but are more complicated on the backend, whereas custom fields provide more reliability because they can’t be accidentally changed or deleted and are quite straightforward on the backend, but less flexible to be changed.

Personally, I would nearly never recommend Attributes over custom fields unless the goal was flexibility. Even then… 😏

That’s kind of what we were thinking as well.  Thanks

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