Shipping international shipments create special demands because of greater carrier documentation requirements. Some carriers have imposed the requirement that you must submit all information about all boxes in the shipment at the time you process the very first box, including destination, total weight of all boxes, and a complete Commercial Invoice reflective of all box content.
This requirement is not terribly difficult to comply with if your personnel already know everything in the box when the first box is ready to ship. However, many shippers encounter the situation in which they build their multi-box international shipment throughout the day, for various reasons, making the carrier requirement onerous.
Because of these carrier requirements, WorldLink handles international shipments differently than it does domestic ones. When you are processing international shipments, the International Button on the Process Shipments Screen will be activated for you to set up your international options.
As you process an international, multi-package order throughout the day, WorldLink keeps track of all the box details until your last box in the order is processed. Interim boxes receive a temporary label, allowing you or whomever is responsible to set these off to the side and easily identify them later. Once the order is complete, only then does WorldLink generate the shipping labels for all the boxes processed in the order throughout the day, as well as prepare your full and complete detailed Commercial Invoice for the contents of all the boxes.
In order to ensure that the same, validated data is on all boxes of an international shipment, CMS WorldLink uses the following validation rules:
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