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Selling items that ship via freight online can be a complicated configuration.  Fortunately UltraCart integrates with Gold Coast to provide the lowest cost rate calculation across a wide range of customers. 

Gold Coast Logistics, an agency for Priority 1 Inc., is a premier provider of technology-enabled logistics services, offering simplified transportation solutions for companies worldwide. By analyzing data and learning about challenges that faced with, we develop a customer specific solution to enhance the shipping process. Our initial objective includes reducing transportation costs, restructuring logistics operations to improve efficiency and customizing a program to meet unique customer needs.

This tutorial will walk you through the process of setting up goldcoast.com for a complex environment such as selling ladders online.

Configuring Your Gold Coast Account in UltraCart

First you'll need to visit http://www.goldcaost.com and apply for an account.

Obtaining your API Key

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Configuring your API Key in UltraCart

Once you receive your API credentials you will need to configure them within UltraCart.

Navigate: Main Menu → Configuration → (middle menu) Checkout → Shipping

Add Gold Coast as a Carrier

In the Shipping Configuration Menu, select Carriers then select Gold Coast in the Checkbox List of carriers:

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Next, Click ‘Gold Coast’ that appears in the Shipping Configuration menu:

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  1. Enter the API key you obtains from your Gold Coast account.

  2. By default, UltraCart will take the lowest cost quote for the given LTL shipment. If you want to set the order of priority for the carrier that you use you can enter them in the ‘Preferred Carriers’ field.

Setting up Gold Coast Shipping Method

The next step in the configuration process is to setup the LTL shipping method associated with Gold Coast.

First, navigate to the shipping methods section.
Navigate: Main Menu → Configuration → (middle menu) Checkout → Shipping → Methods (tab)

Click on the new method button as shown below.

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  1. From the list of methods select "Gold Coast : LTL" and then click Continue button.

  2. The next step in the configuration process is to configure the Gold Coast LTL shipping method associated with Gold Coast. The cost Claulcation will be 'Real-time calculationby GoldCoast:

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At this point UltraCart has added the method to your shipping method configuration. 

Configuring Insurance (Optional)

If you want to insure your shipments then continue following the instructions.  If you don't insure your shipments skip to the next section of this article.

Click on the Insurance tab as shown below:

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Setup of Packages

Packages are the containers that UltraCart's shipping system fits into for shipping calculations.  For our example we need to setup a number of different packages to represent pallets holding different length ladders.  Each pallet within our example is a 36" x 36" pallet.  Each different package will be configured to hold a different length from 36" to 300" (That is one tall ladder!).

First navigate to the packages section:

Main Menu → Configuration → Shipping → Packages

Click on the New Package button as shown below.

This will bring up the package editor.  Below is an example of the configuration for the pallet holding up to 108" ladd

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