Pitney Bowes Account Integration

Pitney Bowes Account Integration

Overview

Pitney Bowes is a shipping and logistics company that helps businesses optimize their fulfillment processes by leveraging partnerships with traditional carriers and providing discounted rates. The integration between Sellercloud and Pitney Bowes enables you to generate shipping labels for both domestic and international orders, including returns, directly from the Sellercloud interface. Once generated, the label files are automatically saved in the Order Documents and can also be printed from Shipbridge.

If necessary, you can contact Sellercloud Support to request additional customizations or other plugins for this integration. Any such modifications will be billable.

To have a dedicated representative complete the testing for your account and ensure that the setup is configured correctly, we recommend Premium Support.

Prerequisites

Open a ticket with Sellercloud Support and request that the following plugins be installed on your server:

Additionally, contact Pitney Bowes for your API Key, API Secret, and the IDs required for the Custom Company Settings below.

Custom Company Settings

Create the following Custom Company Settings on the company where you will set up the Scheduled Tasks. For order shipping labels:

For return labels:

Custom Order Columns

Create the following Custom Order Columns:

Integrate Multiple Accounts

The Custom Company Settings Pitney Bowes Multi Warehouse File ID and Pitney Bowes RMA Multi Warehouse File ID allow you to map each of your warehouses to a different Pitney Bowes shipping account. You do this by creating a spreadsheet with warehouse mappings, which the plugins will check to determine the proper credentials to use based on the ID of the Shipping Warehouse.

The default settings are still required and will apply if the shipping warehouse is not mapped in the file.

Your warehouse mapping file must contain the following columns:

To upload the file:

  1. Go to Company Settings.
  2. Click Toolbox and select Custom Documents.
  3. Click Upload Custom Document.
  4. Select the file and click Upload.
  5. Enter the file’s ID into the Pitney Bowes Multi Warehouse File ID and Pitney Bowes RMA Multi Warehouse File ID Custom Company Settings.

Generate Labels

When processing domestic orders, the Pitney Bowes Create Domestic Label Order Export plugin sets the Shipping Carrier to USPS and the Shipping Service to USPS Ground Advantage. When processing international orders, the Pitney Bowes Create International Label Order Export plugin sets the Shipping Carrier to PitneyBowes and the Shipping Service to PitneyBowes Standard DDP. The plugins set the Tracking Number for each package in your orders. If a package in the order doesn’t have Package Dimensions and Weight, then the product’s Shipping Dimensions and Shipping Weight will be used instead. The labels you generate are automatically saved to each order. To view them, go to the Order Details Page, then click Toolbox and select Documents.

The plugins only generate the label files and do not mark orders as shipped. To do that, follow the steps outlined in Ship and Print from Shipbridge.

The plugins skip any orders that are not In Process, as well as orders marked as PitneyBowes_IsExported- True.

Automate Shipping Label Generation

Before you move on, create a Saved Search for orders filtered by:

Next, create a Scheduled Task that generates labels:

  1. Navigate to Settings > Scheduled Tasks > Manage Scheduled Tasks.
  2. Click the green + icon: Create New Scheduled Task.
  3. Complete as follows:
    1. Click Task Type and select Export Orders.
    2. Set the Task Name.
    3. Select the Company.
    4. Select the Start Time.
    5. Click CREATE.
  4. On the Scheduled Task page, click the Edit button at the top right corner.
  5. In the Details panel:
    1. Click the User ID menu and select your email.
    2. Click the Saved Search menu and select the saved search you created earlier.
    3. Click the Export Via menu and select Pitney Bowes Create Domestic Label Order Export or Pitney Bowes Create International Label Order Export.
  6. In the Export Options section, set Export To to None.
  7. In the Frequency section, specify the task frequency. For optimal performance, select a range between thirty minutes and one hour.
  8. In the General section, click the Enable toggle button.
  9. Click Save.

Automate Return Label Generation

Before you move on, create a Saved Search for orders filtered by:

Next, create a Scheduled Task that generates labels:

Ship and Print From Shipbridge

Before you can print Pitney Bowes labels, you must enable the following settings:

  1. Go to Menu > Options.
  2. Select the Shipping tab.
  3. Enable Print channel specific documents and Print documents for all orders.
  4. Select a Laser printer for order documents or a Thermal printer for order documents.
  5. Click Test to ensure the setup works correctly. If the test is successful, a Printer Test page will be generated.
  6. Click Save.

Next, to ship orders and print a physical copy of the labels:

When using any of the above actions, Shipbridge will automatically detect the channel documents to print and use the Generic Shipping Service to ship the order.