When you make a booking, you can add extra details about the item you're shipping, called Delivery Note Lines. This info might be required, especially if you're sending shipments outside the EU or using paperless invoicing.
Below, you'll find a list of some commonly used delivery note lines. Since each carrier may ask for different delivery note lines—and these requirements can change—we try to support all possible delivery note line information for every carrier. For the complete list of available delivery note line parameters on our platform, the best place to check is our devdocs here.
- Quantity in the box
- Article ID
- Description
- Currency
- Net and/or gross weight (per item)
- Net price and price (per item)(the latter meaning gross article price)
- HS Code
- Country of origin
- Reason for export
For paperless invoicing, the below fields are frequently mandatory (again dependent on the carrier code you want to book with):
<quantity>
<price>
<currency>
<HSCode>
<countryOrigin>
<reasonOfExport> (examples may be: gift, intercompany data, sale, sample, repair, return, other. This may vary per carrier, so please verify this with your carrier contact)
<description>
We recommend booking Delivery Note Lines at package level rather than shipment level. More carriers — particularly for dangerous goods or customs shipments outside the EU — now require item information to be registered per parcel, so package-level booking gives you the best compatibility going forward.
Shipment-level booking is still supported today. That said, we're planning to phase it out in the future, so if your integration currently uses shipment level, we recommend planning a move to package level when convenient. There's no immediate deadline — we'll announce the timeline and any dates through our Release Notes forum on this Help Center well in advance.
The information in the Delivery Notes Lines comes from your ERP/WMS, but you can always add package details manually through our my.transsmart.com portal for your shipments. Make sure to check with your team or ERP/WMS partner about the options available in your current system, and find out which customs data you need to send from your carriers.
If you have any further questions, please contact us through this link.
Keep in mind that there might be some consultancy costs involved.