Auto packing is a Pacejet feature that inspects product details such as dimensions, weight, quantity, and uses a list of standard packages to calculate an estimated shipment packaging. An estimated packaging can significantly improve the accuracy of freight quotes. Auto packing can also be useful to streamline certain types of shipping use-cases. Specific auto packing logic is controlled by installing standard or custom plug-ins into each Pacejet location to meet specific customer needs.
To support Auto Packing in a shipping integration on a transaction by transaction basis, a shipment-level field named AutoPackShipment can be set to TRUE or FALSE. For example, freight quote use-cases on sales orders might activate autopacking but fulfillment managed by a WMS might leave auto packing turned off. Most standard Pacejet auto packing plug-ins and many custom versions will need minimum product information to include dimensions and weight as shown in the example below.
"CustomFields": [
{
"name": "AutoPackShipment",
"value": "TRUE"
}
],
"PackageDetailsList": [
{
"PackageNumber": "BOXS",
"ProductDetailsList": [
{
"Number": "IPA2",
"AutoPack": "TRUE",
"Dimensions": {
"Length": "6",
"Width": "12",
"Height": "1",
"Units": "IN"
},
"Weight": "8"
},
{
"Number": "IPH7",
"AutoPack": "FALSE",
"Dimensions": {
"Length": "6",
"Width": "12",
"Height": "1",
"Units": "IN"
},
"Weight": "2"
}
}