NetSuite Shipping: The Basics of Shipping with your Cloud ERP

• Advanced Shipping: Select this tab if you want to keep separate records for each stage in the fulfillment and billing process (i.e. Item Fulfillments and cash sales/invoices).
• Pick, Pack, and Ship: If you have separate stages for picking, packing, and shipping your inventory items before billing, then enable this feature. NetSuite will allow your warehouse employees to track inventory through various stages and mark orders picked and packed prior to sending them out the door.
• Shipping Label Integration: Enabling this feature allows you to print FedEx, UPS, and USPS labels from NetSuite with an integration to your shipping accounts. Using thermal label printers or regular paper printers, you can now get the whole process done right from your NetSuite account.
• Multiple Shipping Routes: If you’re a distributor whose customers want the items on their orders shipped to different locations, this feature allows you to do that. It even allows you to use different shipping methods per line item.

• Real-Time Rate: This option is only available if you have created your shipping account at Setup>Accounting>Shipping. With this feature, NetSuite will pull the rate directly from the shipping carrier based on ship to and ship from addresses.
• Flat Rate: Charge a flat rate to every customer who uses this shipping method.
• By Weight: Charge a flat rate per pound, ounce, gram, or kilogram.
• By Item: If you choose this option, specify the item shipping rate on the item card and a default shipping charge in case an item does not have a shipping charge specified.
• Percent of total: Charge shipping based on the order total.
• Shipping Table: Choosing this opens a new set of options right beneath. You can select a range and how much to charge for shipping based on those ranges of order total and weight.

After setting your rates, scroll through the remaining tabs to indicate which account you’d like to use if you’re using integrated shipping labels, if you have any free shipping options, and if you want to offer this option to all countries or restrict it based on shipping location.

Finally, you can choose whether certain inventory items come with free shipping so orders including those items ship free.

Once you’re satisfied with your shipping item, save it and create new shipping items for each shipping option you want to offer your customers. Test out their functionality by creating a new sales order and choosing the shipping option or by heading to the checkout screen of your NetSuite web store. If you’ve set up the shipping item correctly, your shipping should be calculated based on a flat rate, order total, order weight, or shipping location.

If you want to get the most out of your NetSuite experience, contact the experts at Business Solution Partners for assistance implementing, integrating, and customizing the platform.