InventoryAdvisor® PickList Enhancements

If you turned on our InventoryAdvisor® product, you will notice some recent enhancements in our "PickLists". We have added 2 columns: "Quantity Available" and "Quantity Short".

Quantity Available is what you have on hand, not shipped out. This number will display if you entered your inventory quantity from our "Quantities" page.

Quantity Short will be displayed if your Quantity Available isn't enough to cover the orders in the batch.

These 2 columns give you an immediate view of what your stock level is in relation to your order. You can spot potential issues with fulfillment before generating shipping labels.

InventoryAdvisor® is a Teapplix optional subscription component that helps you track & manage inventory levels across multiple marketplaces. More information can be found in Advanced InventoryAdvisor® Help.

The PickList changes will only be visible if you turned on InventoryAdvisor®. If you have customized your PickList previously, you must "revert back to factory default" on the PickList.cs template under Setup => Packing Lists => Advanced.

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Revised Rate Quote Display

We have revised rate quote display. In addition to displaying the rate of the currently selected service, we also display rates for all other services from the same carrier.

For UPS, we also display the negotiated rates below the list rate.
UPS, FedEx and Stamps.com / Express1 rate quotes can also give you suggestions on address correction.

To access rate quote, you must enter your UPS, FedEx, USPS (Stamps.com, Endicia, Express1) credentials into Teapplix. To do that, please refer to the Setup page.

Note that rate quotes are not available for the following methods and carriers:

  • UPS Mail Innovations
  • DHL Global Mail
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Beta Support for ChinaPost ePacket and 4PX

We are beta testing support for Asian based carriers. This is designed for sellers who have to ship from Hong Kong, China, etc to other destinations including the US.

We can use API to generate labels for China Post ePacket (e邮宝), as well as 4PX.

If you would like to participate in the beta test, please contact Teapplix support.

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UPS Surepost® Beta

We have released a beta version of support via our UPS Online API support for UPS Surepost®.

To participate in this program, please contact Teapplix support.

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Core Commerce Beta

We have added bi-directional support for Core Commerce order import and export. We will be able to import orders and mark them as shipped.

You will need a version of Core Commerce that has API Support to use it. If you want to beta test the feature, please contact Teapplix support for setup procedures.

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Understanding the 2013 USPS Price Changes

On October 11, 2012 the U.S. Postal Service® announced new prices and services that will take effect on January 27, 2013.
Endicia is holding a webinar to go over these tion changes. If you use USPS, we strongly advise you to attend:

Date: Tuesday, January 22nd
Time: 10am PST

To register for this webinar please visit: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/202828488

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Changes to our standard dropship template

We have released changes to our generic CSV dropship template to make it more flexible

If you have a customized template, this change will not affect you and your template will continue to work as it currently does.

In the old template, we have 2 fields: "ItemName" and "Sku",

In the new template, this will expand to 4 fileds: "ItemName", "ItemDescription", "TeapplixSKU", "SupplierSKU".

  • ItemName - value from order line item
  • ItemDescription - value from order line item
  • TeapplixSKU - the SKU you assign in Teapplix, from the "remember weight" screen.
  • SupplierSKU - there is a Supplier SKU field that you can optionally assign from the "Inventory" tab

If you do not want any of these changes, Teapplix can install your old template free of charge to your account. Please contact support to do so.

But we think the new template adds future flexibility and encourage you to work with your dropshipper to handle these fields.

Note that the new dropship template will import into Teapplix correctly with "ItemName" and "ItemDescription" populating the corresponding fields in Teapplix. However, "TeapplixSKU" and "SupplierSKU" will be ignored during generic order import.

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Harmonized Code, Country of Origin

For our PDF based shipping method to international addresses, we have released enhancements to our system to fill in Harmonized Product Code and / or Country of Origin when filled in.

Country of Origin is a global setting, it is set in Teapplix "Setup => Shipping" page.

Harmonized Code is stored under Inventory => Products table. You can click on the "edit" link to fill out the info, or you can bulk upload the information.

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QuickBooks Integration Fees and Discounts

We have released 2 enhancements for QuickBooks integration:

1) fee tracking for Buy.com and Sears
2) Handle "discount" for website shopping carts. This is currently only populated for 3dcarts. If you have "discounts", you can choose to map it to an discount item in QuickBooks.

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Report API Changes

We have made changes to our report APO for "customer reports". Now you can filter by queue_id.

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