Carrier Accounts
Once karrio is up and running, the first thing to do is to register your carrier accounts. The carrier accounts you register will be used to process all other requests such as shipping rates, shipping labels, and fetching of tracking statuses.
Adding a carrier account
You can register your carrier account using the karrio Dashboard.
- Go to the
Carriers
section. - Click
Connect Carrier
. - Select your prefered carrier.
- Fill in the account and API credentials.
- Click
Submit
.
Connection Mode
karrio' first goal is to make shipping services integration and automation easy.
Therefore, the test mode
option here is suited for development and testing.
By checking it during your account registration, you are instructingkarrio
to connect to the carrier' sandbox server.
The test mode
is great to experiment and test that your carrier integration is
fully functional.
Generally carriers will ignore all label purchased or any scheduled pickups in that mode. So you don't have to worry about any charges from carriers.
Leave the test mode
unchecked for carrier accounts to use in live mode
(in production).
From the karrio Dashboard, you can change the mode to visualize and operate
the API in test mode
by enabling the View test data
toggle.
Preconfigured carrier accounts
Whe you sign up to app.karrio.io you will have access to preconfigured carrier accounts. This is convenient because you get to test and use a carrier services without having to register your own account.
Note that when you deploy your own karrio instance, you will only have access to your own registered carrier accounts.
You can choose to opt-in to the preconfigured carrier accounts by enabling them for your karrio user account.
- Go to the
Carriers
section. - Click
Karrio Accounts
. - Toggle on desired carrier connections.
- As a karrio instance owner, you can also provide preconfigured carrier accounts to other users.
- Preconfigured carrier accounts can be setup and made available to other users from the administration panel.
- Your users will be able to use the functionalities that are activated without seing the accounts details and credentials.
Next steps
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