UpStart Commerce Services
Shipping Management
Basic Guide To Carriers
6min
managing carriers for your shipping needs is crucial for ensuring smooth order delivery in this guide, we'll take you through the step by step process of managing carriers within the upstart commerce portal from adding new carriers to editing existing ones, we'll cover everything you need to know to optimize your shipping operations here's how you can access, create, and edit carriers creating a carrier step 1 accessing the carriers upon logging in, navigate to the side menu of the upstart commerce portal, go to shipping, and click on carriers afterward, you can easily create a new carrier or choose from the list of existing ones to view and update as needed step 2 creating a carrier initiate the carrier creation process by clicking on the + icon at the top right in the shipping carriers section step 3 define the carrier attributes once you've initiated the carrier creation process, provide essential details for your carrier including associate to website associate the carrier with your existing site's list using the dropdown menu this ensures the carrier is linked with all the relevant sites carrier id a unique identifier assigned to the carrier within the system, used for tracking and management purposes name a descriptive name for the carrier, helping to identify it easily within the system tracking url the url where customers can track their shipments, providing them with real time updates on the status of their orders step 4 save to create once all details are filled out, click the save button to finalize the creation process for the new carrier editing a carrier step 1 accessing the carriers upon logging in, navigate to the side menu of the upstart commerce portal, go to shipping, and click on carriers you can now choose a carrier from the list of existing ones and edit it by clicking the edit icon step 2 update the details update any necessary details, such as linking the carrier to a new site, or modifying the name or tracking url step 3 save to update once you've made your changes, click the save button to save your updates