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Integration with Fedex Ship Manager

Fedex Ship Manager has a nice option to map your field values to their field values… but they sure don’t make it easy to track down what their field values should really be in the underlying data. 

The help file includes a basic definition of the data types under “Creating and Editing Profiles / FedEx Ship Manager Data Fields”.  This tells you we have a 2 digit numeric column for Package Type and Service Type.  But it doesnt tell you what 2 digit numbers to use.

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The current user manuals don’t seem to mention valid values.  What you want to track down is the “Transaction Coding Reference”.  An old one is at http://fedex.com/us/solutions/FSMS_v_7_6_TCR_081505.pdf ; for the latest you'll need to register at http://www.fedex.com/us/developer/index.html then you should be able to download https://www.fedex.com/wpor/web/jsp/drclinks.jsp?links=fsms/pdf/100/FSMS_1001_TCR_Aug2009.pdf

Also take a look at the user guide, I find it a bit more clear about rules like for example if using FedEx Ground or FedEx Home, Package Type must be 01 – Customer Packaging for FedEx Ground.  http://fedex.com/us/solutions/FSMS_v_7_6_User_Guide_081505.pdf ; I don't know where the current version of that doc lives

Finally, note that FedEx uses 2 char IATA country codes, while a lot of other systems use 3 char codes.

Page 39 of the TCR has packaging type codes:

Available for all:
01 – Customer Packaging
02 – FedEx Pak
03 – FedEx Box
04 – FedEx Tube
06 – FedEx Envelope
FedEx International Only
(including U.S. export):
15 – FedEx 10KG Box
25 – FedEx 25KG Box

And our service types are:

The service type provided by the shipper.
Valid values:
U.S. Domestic Services:
01 – FedEx Priority Overnight
03 – FedEx 2Day
05 – FedEx Standard Overnight
06 – FedEx First Overnight
20 – FedEx Express Saver
*70 – FedEx 1Day Freight
*80 – FedEx 2Day Freight
83 – FedEx 3Day Freight
90 – FedEx Home Delivery
92 – FedEx Ground
FedEx International Services (including U.S. export):
01 – International Priority
03 – International Economy
06 – International First
57 – FedEx Europe First (See the FedEx Service
Guide for served countries.)
*70 – International Priority Freight
*86 – International Economy Freight


Posted by David Eison on Wednesday, June 16, 2010 11:49 PM
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