Overview
The Descartes Pacejet Estes 2025.6 release restores several capabilities and corrects issues in the Estes 2025 connector. It restores Third Party Billing support and shipment tracking status, corrects the arrival day shown on the Rate and Ship page, and preserves Bill of Lading mapping for customers upgrading from the legacy Estes connector.
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Enhancements
There are no enhancements for this release.
Bug Fixes
🟩 Resolved Issue: Restored Third Party Billing Support
Estes shipments using Third Party Billing freight terms now process successfully again. The Estes 2025 connector now allows third party terms to be used when rating and when creating the shipment and BOL, restoring parity with the legacy connector. Quote requests continue to use Prepaid freight terms, and Prepaid, Collect, and other freight terms are unaffected. Rating results returned are the shipper rates to allow normal workflows to proceed.
🟩 Resolved Issue: Restored Estes Tracking Status
Corrected an issue where Estes 2025 tracking requests failed to return a status. Shipment tracking now returns status updates from Estes as expected.
🟩 Resolved Issue: Corrected Arrival Day on the Rate and Ship Page
The arrival day shown on the Rate and Ship page now matches the estimated delivery date returned by Estes. The connector now maps the Day of Week value from the rate response, so the arrival date no longer defaults to Monday and displays the correct day for each quoted service.
🟩 Resolved Issue: Preserved Bill of Lading Mapping After Connector Upgrade
Customers upgrading from the legacy Estes2019v4_4 connector to Estes2025 now retain their existing Bill of Lading value. The connector recognizes both the legacy BOL and the new BillOfLading response keys, so existing mappings continue to work with no manual remapping required.