What is the best way to use blue Pick and Pack function for speeding up my fulfillment process?
The blue Pick and Pack feature helps you manage the fulfillment of orders that continually vary in contents and weight.
With the Pick and Pack feature, blue allows you to print labels in literary one-click, if you already have all your orders information available, including weights and preferred shipping service. It also allows you to update order information quickly and accurately, and print best-price labels with the minimum amount of clicks.
In this article, learn:
1. How to get ready for Pick and Pack
2. How to use Pick and Pack
1. Preparing Pick and Pack
To efficiently use the Pick and Pack function, there are several blue configurations that you should review.
- To fully automate the process, you need a scale, a printer and, preferably, a scanner. Your scale and printer should be set as a default in your blue account.
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To learn how to set your scale as a default in blue, click here. |
- Prior to using the Pick and Pack system, you should have imported all orders into your blue account and these orders should be listed in your Orders page. (With blue, you can import your orders from different sources: a data base, a file or from your e-commerce platform.)
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To learn how to import orders from each of these sources, please follow these links. |
- Optionally, we suggest you review the blue processes for enabling automatic purchasing of labels once an order is ready, and automatic printing of labels once they have been purchased. During the Pick and Pack process, we highly recommended using the automated printing process to speed up your fulfillment.
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To learn how to set up Automatic Label Purchase, click here. |
For this tutorial we will assume you have already imported your orders and they are listed on your Orders page. Also, we will assume your scale and printer are set as a default in blue.
2. Using Pick and Pack
To start the Pick and Pack process, pack order items into a package and if you need to update weight to your orders, place the package on the scale.
Log in to your blue account and complete the follow steps.
1) Go to Pick and Pack page.
2) Find and select a Data Source of your order.
3) Enter the Order Number either by using your scanner to scan in a barcode or by typing the number.
Autocomplete option will help you speed up finding desired order - when you start entering the order number in the field, the list of available order numbers for selected data source will show up.
4) After you input data source and order number, click 'Enter' on your keyboard. You order data is displayed in corresponding fields.
If your order data is complete, meaning it includes shipping address, accurate package weight and preferred shipping service, you can skip steps 5), 6) and 7), and move directly to step 8).
5) Once your order data is displayed in corresponding fields, postage prices for different carrier services appear in ascending order, showing prices from lowest to highest. This is presented in the image below.
6) Navigate to the Services section of the screen to review and choose the best fit service. To speed up comparison, Services section allows you to filter by carrier and packaging type.
7) When you are ready to buy a label, click on the desired service, and you will be presented with available extra services. You can ignore these or choose any and you will see postage price adjust for the price of selected extra service.
8) Click 'Purchase' to buy a label.
If you have enabled the Automatic Label Print feature, a label automatically prints on your default printer.
Attach printed label to your package and you are ready to start fulfilling a new order.
If the automatic label printing feature is disabled, you need to click 'Print' button which you will see on next screen.