@mvolshteyn, thank you for taking the time.We cannot charge on the sales order - leather hides are sold by the square foot at a fixed customer price level or unit cost….but leather hides are variable in size so the amount to charge will always be different based on the picked quantity. Picker only decides the picked quantity, not the price per square foot.Example, customer orders 1 hide (avg 50sqft) at $2.00 = $100. We enter 50.00 qty on sales order based on average hide size and create shipment. Picker then picks the hide but must have freedom to pick any hide (we cannot auto-allocate) which determines final quantity and end invoice total. In a given lot of 100 hides for a stock item, maybe 2% of hides are exactly 50sqft, but even if they are an exact match in size quantity, a 50sqft hide’s quality may not be suitable to sell as a single hide order so the Picker may need to select another hide that could be 55.00sqft or 45.00sqft ($110.00 or $90.00).Similarly, using the 50sqft average
Thank you @mvolshteyn - will look into that. We do sometimes get deposits, but in those cases, that is against the sales order before we pick, final quantity picked still drives end cost and in these deposit cases by the time we get the final payment, goods are ready to ship so we can confirm shipment and create invoice to then accept final payment.The Shipping portion is a whole other matter…..nothing I’ve seen integrated with Acumatica handles what we require….evaluating Pacejet at present but all the ShipEngine/others are more online marketplace single shipment based and do not address our B2B needs….but that’s a whole separate post.Thanks for your time & help.
Firstly @mvolshteyn & @vkumar , have to say, as new to Acumatica and this community, the fact there is even active feedback at all is so helpful compared to our previous system so thank you both.@vkumar - thank you on that, that thought & step was missing on my end.Couple of work-arounds we are discussing without customization were the following:Allocate stock against the Sales Order via the Line Details. Issue with this is that we cannot use the Pick/Pack/Ship functionality for scanning/allocating stock in the warehouse, but it would work in theory Creating a custom report on the Shipment screen that prints out in effect the “invoice” with quantity & $ figures and a label Proforma Invoice. Issue here is as @mvolshteyn details though if Shipment amount is greater than SO, we cannot take payment on the Sales Order (if less no issue). I think we will have to customize in the end like @mvolshteyn mentioned to get exactly what we want within the constructs of Acumatica.
@annekseymourWe’re in the same boat and working through our VAR. We’ve setup the EasyPost integration, validated APIs work, but are not able to start shipping due to errors received on Shipments screen and we cannot figure out the issue if it’s setup or a configurational.Right now, trying to do this for domestic shipments. Next step is to test the international side as we only see the possibly for DDP shipping or on customer account, vs. the ability for shipping DDU with 3rd party billing for import charges which we do a lot of.If my VAR helps us, I’ll advise direct further to this post.
@annekseymour Not sure if you were able to get the carriers setup….if you need help, please let me now.We’re still waiting for our VAR, EasyPost and Acumatica to have a conference call to discuss our issues.Of note within EasyPost, have noticed that DHL rates are only able to be returned if you are on a Shipment...you cannot get rates at the Sales Order/Quote level with DHL (both our DHL account and the one that EasyPost provides). Still have yet to get rates for EasyPost’s UPS account as well.EasyPost support continues to point us back to Acumatica as “they only pass along what is given from Acumatica” and they state that each carrier’s requirements for input are different yet they do not explain what those differences are by carrier, nor what mappings are used in Acumatica…..hence why we’re pushing for the conference call with Acumatica as they seem to be the only people capable of support to address issues…..and I suspect not every VAR understands this integration very well.Still se
@fimprota …. my experience is that EasyPost points you back to Acumatica who is the one that supports the integration between the two. If you’re VAR has no experience with EasyPost, then you’re relying on Acumatica and there is scant details to properly troubleshoot EasyPost integration in my eyes…..it seems to work best only on simple scenarios like ship to customer fully prepaid on your account, or ship to customer fully prepaid on customer’s account.
Thanks @fimprota and certainly will reach out if I require things.Our major issue is we use Manual Packaging which requires us to manual define a ton of information for EasyPost to operate properly in even the most basic situations, but that’s due to an Acumatica limitation that I hope they fix…..that, and I believe that all Declared Value, COO, Tariff and other customs requirements should be pre-populated by Acumatica (yet editable) vs. having to be manually defined in the Shipment screen - most information is easily available out-of-box, and if not, adding a field (vs. attribute) should solve obtaining whatever information customs requires.Only other one I believe Acumatica is looking at is the scenario where you ship on Customer (or your) freight account, but you want to bill Customs/Import charges to a 3rd party account which is possible directly in FedEx for instance, but not in the Acumatica-EasyPost setup using the Acumatica UI.
@fimprota One additional question would be about currency. We’ve gotten EasyPost waybill & customs form for a shipment from our location cross-border to the US...however, the Customs Form is being printed defined currency as $ CAD vs. $ USD which is the Sales Order and Customer’s currency, and the customer’s profile does not allow for currency to be overridden.
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