Everything You Need to Know About Exception Shipments
Delivering orders to customers on time is paramount from a business perspective. However, there are times when shipments don’t reach customers’ doorstep due to reasons like delayed customs clearance, wrong delivery address, etc. Such shipments come under the category of ‘Exception.’ AfterShip shows every detail about exception shipments, and this help guide covers all the details you need to know.
How can I identify exception shipments using AfterShip
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Overview
The timezone visualization lets you understand how date and time are mapped across the admin. Each date and time mentioned for various tracking events, checkpoints, and statuses is followed with a tooltip to give you an understanding of what timezone (local or international) is being followed and reflected on the admin portal to showcase the date and time.
Timezones are essential for eCommerce businesses to understand and deliver on shipping, estimated, and delivery dates. OnlinFew readersHow to Manually Update the Shipment Status?
Overview
AfterShip Tracking’s Shipment module allows merchants, including Admin, Member, and Manager roles, to manually update the status of individual and bulk shipments to Delivered, Returned to sender, and Lost. Subsequently, the merchants can also update the delivery date and time of the shipment(s) they mark as delivered to include the data in deriving accurate analyticFew readersHow to Perform Actions for Bulk Shipments?
Overview
You can now perform bulk actions for all the shipments on the shipment visibility dashboard in your AfterShip Tracking admin. Previously, you could only perform bulk actions for 20 shipments at a time, but now that limit is lifted. You can take multiple actions for all or more than 20 shipments or all shipments simultaneously.
📢 What you’ll learn
In this tutorial, we’ll show you howFew readersHow to Export Shipment Reports in Custom Format
Overview
AfterShip allows merchants to easily customize their shipment reports the way they want. You can add or remove the fields as per your needs using the Custom format.
📢 What you’ll learn
In this tutorial, we’ll discuss:
How to use the custom CSV export format
FAQs
How to use the custom CSV export format
LoFew readersHow to Filter Shipments by Issues
Overview
Quick filters on the shipments page help you efficiently monitor the shipments that are most important to you. AfterShip Tracking allows you to filter your shipments by tracking history issues, including Lost, Damaged, and Returned to sender.
How to use the Issues filter
Log in to AfterShip Tracking account
Navigate to Shipments
Click More filters Issues
(https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/9dd7275525e71800/screenshot-2023-03-02-at-5491Few readersCreate and Manage Shipment Views
Overview
AfterShip Tracking’s shipment visibility module allows you to create and save custom views for your shipment records based on certain conditions and criteria to quickly view the important shipment information to your business and manage shipments more efficiently. Additionally, the default views (filters) can be edited and renamed with revised filters to better suit your needs.
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Custom shiFew readersHow to Schedule Shipments View Emails
Overview
If you frequently find yourself searching for shipment issues, whether it’s on a monthly, weekly, or even daily basis, AfterShip Tracking’s scheduled view feature can greatly simplify your workflow and enhance your tracking experience. This feature helps you configure view schedules according to your preferred frequency and timing.
What you'll learn
Send shipment view over email (3-send-shipFew readersEnable Google Analytics Tracking
Overview
Google Analytics is a tracking tool that helps you collect data from your website and mobile applications to create reports that provide insights into your business.
AfterShip Tracking lets you connect your Google Analytics account to track and collect data for the activity and events on your branded tracking page.
Additional considerations
You must have an active Google Analytics acFew readersSend Analytics Dashboards and Reports via Email
Overview
AfterShip Tracking allows merchants to effortlessly schedule recurring emails to share analytics reports and dashboards. Merchants can choose to send the emails along with a snapshot or link to the report/dashboard, and set flexible sending frequencies- daily, weekly, or monthly. Stay organized, enhance communication, and ensure vital information reaches the right recipients consistently.
What yoFew readersUnderstanding AfterShip Tracking's CSV Import Feature
Overview
AfterShip Tracking’s CSV upload feature allows you to bulk-import trackings to the Shipments dashboard for auto-tracking and status updates email notifications. Additionally, you can upload CSV manually or auto-fetch trackings from a CSV file on your server at a specific time.
What you’ll learn
In this tutorial, we will show you:Few readersCommon CSV Import Errors
Look out for these CSV import errors next time you receive an email notification with an alert of unsuccessful shipment import and what you can do to rectify those.
|—|—|—|—|Few readersManually Import Shipments to AfterShip Tracking
Overview
You can manually add shipments to AfterShip for tracking.
Click Add shipment on the Shipments dashboard
Fill in the shipment, order, and customer information and hit Save shipment
Once theFew readersDelivery Statuses of Shipments
Need to check the status of an order? At AfterShip, you can track shipments at any time and from anywhere, with a tracking number.
Each tracking number is represented by status at every step of the shipment’s journey. Further, couriers provide checkpoint messages which are mapped to subtags. The real-time status of shipments at any time is given by the below statuses.
(https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helPopularLearn About Delivery Sub-statuses
Subtags are predefined status available at AfterShip's end. The checkpoint messages received from couriers are mapped to these subtags for additional information on shipments.
💡For example, when the package departs from the facility, then it is mapped to Subtag Code: InTransit007 with subtag departure scan.
To check how many sub-statuses are available and what each of them means, click here.
In case you want to knowPopularHow to Update Shipment Status via CSV Upload
Overview
Upload a CSV file to AfterShip and automatically update the status of multiple shipments in a single go. You can update the status of 5,000 shipments in one upload.
Points to consider while filling the CSV template:
Duplicate information will be overwritten i.e. if a tracking number is added twice, the status will be overwritten by the one in the higher row
You need to mention the *PopularDestination Country Tracking
AfterShip automatically gets tracking information for both origin and destination country for international shipments of postal service (e.g. China Post, USPS). All the tracking checkpoints from both origin and destination couriers or locations are clubbed together under a single tracking number for a better understanding.
However, not all destination postal service provides tracking info and AfterShip may not support tracking of the destination carrier.PopularOrigin And Destination Tracking
AfterShip automatically gets tracking information for both origin and destination country for international shipments of postal service (e.g. China Post, USPS). Depending on the integration type, different method is specified below to receive destination tracking data:
Store connector
AfterShip detects the destination country and tracks automatically utilizing the connector integration, as per the data provided by courier.
CSV upload
Specify destinationcountry with the ISOPopularDisplay Tracking Status at the Store
Tracking shipments accurately is integral to improve performance and deliver an enhanced post-purchase customer experience. With AfterShip tracking tools, proactive delivery updates can be sent to shoppers. Also, they can track shipments effortlessly with the click of a button.
📄 Show tracking information at the store
🔘 Track Button
Insert Track Button to your store or embed it on the order history page. Shoppers can check the order staPopularUpdating Pending Statuses
All recently added or imported shipments within your AfterShip account are tagged with "Pending" status, and queued up for tracking in batches. AfterShip automatically gets the latest tracking information from carriers every 3-48 hours.
If "Pending" status still shows for long, it usually means that the carrier does not have any delivery information for the tracking number yet. Also, please check if the tracking number is correct, and contact the carrier if need be. AfterShip will continue traPopularLearn More About Shipments Import Settings
Overview
AfterShip Tracking's auto-import settings allows you to define when and how much dated shipments you want AfterShip to automatically sync to their system for tracking to eliminate errors and reduce efforts while importing shipments manually.
Configure shipments import settings in AfterShip Tracking
AfterShip Tracking supports autSome readersChecklist for Auto Import Orders
AfterShip automatically detects and imports the tracking numbers present in your store.
To correctly import tracking numbers from your store to AfterShip, please make sure:
The store is connected
Orders are marked as fulfilled (Only for Shopify connector users) within the store.
Tracking numbers are added within the AfterShip app widget along with the courier (Only for Woocommerce store connector users).
Relevant couriers are enableFew readersShipment Import Frequency
Depends on the methods you connect your store, AfterShip automatically import shipments from your store to your AfterShip account at different frequencies.
AfterShip API - Immediate
Magento - every 3 hours
OpenCart - Immediate
Spree - Immediate
Shopify - every 3 hours
eBay - every 3 hours
Other store connectors - every 3 hours
CSV upload - user definedFew readersImport Tracking Numbers From Your Store To AfterShip Correctly
Overview
Below are some ways through which AfterShip users can better control how tracking numbers are added to their AfterShip account.
1. Adding tracking numbers for a specific courier
For most stores, when a tracking number is added to an order, AfterShip auto detects the courier based on the tracking number format and the active courier list in the user's AfterShip account.
However, if a uFew readersOpening CSV Export in Google Sheets
Overview
Users can export the tracking data from their AfterShip account in the form of CSV file by following these steps.
You can open this file using Google Sheets but some of the tracking numbers have “0” prefix, for e.g. 0648683284752281, or 0303710284408686 and these come up as 648683284752281 or 3037102844Few readersExport AfterShip Shipments
Download AfterShip tracking data to get a complete account of shipments tracked in AfterShip. Get details like order ID, shipment delivery date, origin/destination country name, etc.
💡 Do you know? Filters can be defined to customize the export results.
📤 Export data in CSV format
Go to Shipments page Set up filters
Export shipments
CSV file will be sent to the registered email addressFew readersHow to Search Shipments in Bulk With AfterShip
AfterShip allows you to search shipments in bulk so that you can save time and effort when handling a multitude of shipments. This help guide will explain how to search shipments in bulk with AfterShip.
➡️ Steps to follow
Log in to your AfterShip account Go to Shipments
Click three horizontal dots (⋯) Select Bulk search
(https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/9dd72755Few readersUse Test Slug to Understand How AfterShip Helps With Shipment Tracking
AfterShip supports 900+ carriers to help users with shipment tracking. If you are not sure how AfterShip aids in tracking shipments, you can create a test shipment using a test slug and tracking number to understand how we share details for each checkpoint. This help guide will explain the steps you need to follow.
Steps to use a test slugFew readers