Time saving Productivity Tips

Clever ways to save time

It can often feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done. Reclaim your precious time by working smarter, not for longer, with these helpful time-saving tips.

Five ways to save time and be more productive using $PortalName;

Automatic data entry into shipments
Auto-populate senders and returns
Use templates for frequently shipped items
Automatic printing
Notification preferences

Tip#1

Automatic data entry into shipments

Preferred carriers can be setup for;

Create A Shipment
Book A Pickup
Rate Enquiry
Returns

If you have multiple carriers, each of them can be setup differently with default service, default payer and other settings.

Go to My Profile > My User Settings for details.

Tip#2

Auto-populate senders and returns

Shipment senders and return receivers can be defaulted, so each time you create shipments these will already be selected.

Once these are defaulted please log out and in again.

Just visit My Profile > My User Settings for details.

Tip#3

Use templates for frequently shipped items

You can create custom templates for “Create A Shipment” shipping items for each carrier and service. This is useful if you send the same shipping items frequently.

Once the template is created please log out and in again. You’ll be able to access the template from “Create A Shipment” under the dropdown for item description.

Go to My Profile > My Templates for details.

Tip#4

Automatic printing

Smart printing you to automatically print labels and shipments with one click and specify what happens after printing.

Labels, manifests, shipments and other documents can be sent to different printers depending on your printing preferences for each item and carrier. This takes 2 minutes to setup and is for Windows and Mac operating systems.

Go to Help and Tips for details.

Tip#5

Notification Preferences

At $brandShortName we know how important it is to keep you and your customers informed about their delivery(s).

We also understand each receiver, whether it be a B2B or B2C shipment have different notification requirements, which is why we have introduced new shipment notifications that can be sent via sms or email and the flexibility to customise which notifications you want your customers to receive.