GlobalTranz Freight Quote Settings for BigCommerce

1. Quickest – Displays the quote for the carrier with the quickest delivery estimate. Use the adjacent Label As field to specify how the rate is presented.
2. Cheapest – Displays the quote for the carrier with most inexpensive rate. Use the adjacent Label As field to specify how the rate is presented.
3. Cheapest Options – Displays the rates for a specified number of carriers, beginning with the cheapest option and continuing with the next cheapest option until the number of options specified is reached. Use the adjacent field to specify the number of carriers to present to the shopper. The name of the carrier will be used to label each option.

Choose this option if you want the days in-transit to be displayed with each service option. The number of days will be the number of work days.

Choose this option if you want the expected delivery day to be displayed with each service option. The shipment date will be the date of the order unless the settings for Order Cut Off Time or Shipment Offset Days is in use.

The cut off time will be recorded in military time. For example, if your cut off time is 2:00 PM, it should appear in the field as 14:00:00.

When left blank, the order date will be the ship date. Orders received on weekends will use the next workday as the ship date.

Enter the number of days to offset the ship date. When the plugin requests shipping quotes, it identifies a ship date. The estimated delivery date is dependent on the ship date. This setting allows you to postpone the ship date by a specified number of workdays.

Example 1
If an order is received before the Order Cut Off Time on the 5th of the month and the Shipment Offset Days setting is set to 2 days, then the ship date will be the 7th day of the month (assuming the 5th, 6th and 7th are all business days).

Example 2
If an order is received after the Order Cut Off Time on the 5th of the month and the Shipment Offset Days setting is set to 2 days, then the ship date will be the 8th day of the month (assuming the 5th, 6th and 7th are all business days).

Workdays are Monday through Friday except for public holidays.

Identify the days of the week on which you ship orders. The ship date used for the rate request will be modified accordingly, which may affect the expected delivery date.

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Final Mile is a specialty service which provides additional care at the delivery address than standard LTL freight service. The entity providing Final Mile service is typically a third party (not the LTL carrier) who has been contracted to provide the service. See the instructions for the selection of the Final Mile service options for an explanation the service provided.

Choose one of the three options:

1. Cheapest – Displays the cheapest returned quote on the checkout page.
2. Cheapest Options – Displays a specified number of the cheapest options on the checkout page.
3. Average – Displays the average of a specified number of cheapest options on the checkout page.

Identify how you want the quote labeled in the checkout process. A common choice for this field is “LTL Freight”.

Identify how many quotes to include. The selected quotes will include the cheapest and as many of the next least expensive options needed to reach the specified number. The Cheapest Options method will display each quote individually in a list of options from which the shopper can choose from. The Average method will display a single rate which will be the average of the number of chosen quotes.

Choose the Final Mile Service you want to offer:

Threshold: Shipment is delivered to the first dry, protected area. No additional fees for residential delivery, liftgate delivery, or inside delivery apply.

Room of Choice: Shipment is delivered to a specified first-floor room within a business or residence. No additional fees for residential delivery, liftgate delivery, or inside delivery apply.

Premium: Deliver to a customer specified room of choice, light assembly and packaging material disposal included. No additional fees for residential delivery, liftgate delivery, or inside delivery apply.

Choose whether or not you want a delivery estimate shown along with the shipping quote. If you choose the option for “number of days”, then the number of business days the shipment is to be in transit will be shown. If you choose the option for “delivery date”, then the date upon which the shipment should be delivered will be shown.

Enter the cut off time for orders. When the plugin requests shipping quotes, it identifies a shipment date. The estimated delivery date is dependent on the ship date. The cut off time allows you to postpone an order’s shipment date by one workday. Orders received before the cut off time are quoted using the order date as the ship date. Orders received after the cut off time use the next workday as the ship date. Workdays are Monday through Friday except for public holidays.

The cut off time will be recorded in military time. For example, if your cut off time is 2:00 PM, it should appear in the field as 14:00:00.

When left blank, the order date will be the ship date. Orders received on weekends will use the next workday as the ship date.

Enter the number of days to offset the ship date. When the plugin requests shipping quotes, it identifies a ship date. The estimated delivery date is dependent on the ship date. This setting allows you to postpone the ship date by a specified number of workdays.

Example 1
If an order is received before the Order Cut Off Time on the 5th of the month and the Shipment Offset Days setting is set to 2 days, then the ship date will be the 7th day of the month (assuming the 5th, 6th and 7th are all business days).

Example 2
If an order is received after the Order Cut Off Time on the 5th of the month and the Shipment Offset Days setting is set to 2 days, then the ship date will be the 8th day of the month (assuming the 5th, 6th and 7th are all business days).

Workdays are Monday through Friday except for public holidays.

Identify the days of the week on which you ship orders. The ship date used for the rate request will be modified accordingly, which may affect the expected delivery date.

When enabled, quotes will always include the carrier’s residential delivery fee.

The Residential Address Detection add-on app must be activated for your store for this setting to be available. When enabled, each order’s ship-to address is referenced against a USPS database to determine if it is a residential address. If it is, the freight quote will automatically include the carrier’s residential delivery fee.

When enabled, every quote will include the carrier’s lift gate delivery fee.

When enabled, an additional option will be presented to the shopper that will include the lift gate delivery fee. The shopper will be able to choose between options that exclude or include lift gate delivery.

When enabled, if a residential delivery address is detected the lift gate delivery fee will be included in the shipping rate estimate. In such cases, the option to Offer lift gate delivery as an option will be suppressed, even if enabled. Enabling both the Offer lift gate delivery as an option setting and the Include lift gate delivery when residential delivery is detected setting allows commercial customers to choose whether or not lift gate service is needed while always requiring it for residential customers.

Using Logs In Quoting Apps