Introduction

Since 2001, PeriShip has been supporting stakeholders of perishable products. As the company that offered the first industry specific customer service and logistic support, PeriShip understands the unique challenges their customers face and how to help them. Today, PeriShip continues to meet the complex demands of shipping perishable, healthcare, and non-perishable products with our technology-enabled precision logistics solutions.

FedEx Pre-requisites

Before beginning this tutorial, please make sure that you have a FedEx account established and know the complete billing address associated with the account.

PeriShip Configuration

After you have established your PeriShip account, PeriShip will provide you with the following pieces of information:

1. Your PeriShip partner id

2. The third

Carrier Configuration

Navigate to Configuration → Checkout → Shipping. On the Carriers tab check EasyPost and FedEx as shown below in red.

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PeriShip Configuration

Now click on the FedEx tab on the left hand-side. Scroll down the page until you reach the PeriShip section and enter your partner id.

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Now click back into the Shipping screen then choose Methods and click New Method. Select PeriShip from the list then click Continue as shown below.

EasyPost Configuration

UltraCart uses the EasyPost service to print labels for FedEx and other carriers. Make sure you have signed up for an EasyPost account at https://www.easypost.com/ and connected your FedEx account within EasyPost. This is where knowing your FedEx account number and exact billing address is needed.

Once you have an EasyPost account, navigate to Configuration → Checkout → Shipping → Carriers → EasyPost and configure the settings as shown below.

Distribution Center Configuration

The next step is to configure the distribution center to print EasyPost labels using the 3rd party FedEx information provided by PeriShip. Navigate to Configuration → Checkout → Shipping → Distribution Centers → [edit] → EasyPost Overrides. Fill out the form using the 3rd party account information provided by PeriShip and save.

Package Configuration

Because perishable shipping is complex and often involves specialty coolers, make sure that you properly configure packaging under Configuration → Checkout → Shipping → Packages. More documentation on package confirmation is available here.

Perishable Class Configuration

Often perishable items require special coolants such as dry ice to be shipped. To specify this information, please configure a perishable call. More documentation on perishable classes is available here.

Item Configuration

On the first tab of the item editor, make sure that your weight and item dimensions are accurate. These values directly impact the packaging selected for the item and are critical that they are accurate.

Then on the shipping tab of the item editor make sure to specify the time in transit and the perisable item classification. This dictates which shipping methods are available to the customer and how much coolant will be included in the package.

If the item requires a specific package to ship in, that can be selected on the package requirements section of the shipping tab in the item editor as shown below.

UltraShip Installation

UltraShip is a free Windows based piece of software that brings everything together. For more information on UltraShip please visit this documentation. Contact UltraCart Support to schedule your UltraShip installation once you have all your hardware in place to run the software.

Final Review

Perishable shipping is fairly complex. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to UltraCart Support for a review of your configuration end-to-end to make sure everything is properly in place before launching.