Chapter 51 Freight Terms
Freight Terms lets you switch the Department to Freight Terms to automate shipping charges and costs.
Freight Terms lets you create entries with names and calculations to handle when you are paying Freight Costs, adding calculated Freight Charges to invoices, and so on.
Freight Rules
Freight Rules help you rely on a fast and easy process for automating your shipments.
You should have one shipment per invoice. You can have multiple invoices per order. And you can have multiple packages per shipment. This is expected by calculations.
If you type in the freight charges or freight cost on an order, they will not be replaced. If you quote and type in freight charges, automatic calculations will not replace them.
Freight Events
Freight Events let you know automatic actions by putting them in the Response fields.
If you suspect a problem with automatic actions doing something unexpected, you can see these listed in the Response field on the transaction, viewed by adding the column.
For example, go to Orders search, click Add to add a column, and choose Response. You can then see entries such as