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Setup a Delivery Schedule

Delivery schedules allow you to set a delivery schedule for each shipping zone and rule with cut off times. Supply'd delivery scheduling is advanced and requires a number of components to work.

You should familiarise yourself with how Shipping Zones & Rules work before commencing with setting up delivery schedules.

Setting Up a Delivery Schedule

In order to setup a delivery schedule there are a number of components that need to be set to allow it to work:

This setup allows for granular control over delivery schedules, even allowing you to offer same day and next day delivery options within the same zone. If any one of these steps is not completed then delivery schedules would not be used.


Set Operating Days

Operating days let you choose which days your business is open.

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Go to Settings

Click on your company name in the top right and select Settings.

2

Select Company Settings

Click on Company Settings in the Settings menu.

The Company Settings form will open.

3

Set Operating Days

Scroll to Operating Days.

Simply tick the days that your business operates.

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Save

Click to apply your settings.


Set Delivery Days

Set your delivery days for this zone for orders in this zone. Leave blank to not use delivery schedules in this zone.

1

Click on your company name in the top right then select Settings (as above).

Select Shipping Settings from the Settings menu.

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Click on the Shipping Zone you want to edit.

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Click on the 3 dots in the top right-hand corner and select Edit Zone.

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Under Delivery Schedule select which days you will deliver to this zone.

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Click .


Set Order Cut-off and Delivery Delays

The order cut-off defines the time of day that an order needs to be placed before in order to receive a specific delivery. Delivery delays defines the processing time for the order. This allows you to manage if the rule is for same day, next day, +2 day delivery or more. The delivery delay is defined based on the operating days not the delivery days.

To set the order Cut-off and Delivery Delay for a Delivery Zone:

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Click on your company name in the top right then select Settings. Select Shipping Settings from the Settings menu.

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Click on the Shipping Zone, then select the rule you want to add the Order Cut-off time to.

The Edit Shipping Rule form will open.

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Scroll to Advanced Settings and complete the fields:

Order Cut-off

A delivery cut-off defines the period of time prior to a delivery day that an order must be placed. If this time has passed the delivery day would not be available to the customer when ordering. Choose Not Set to not use delivery schedules. You must also select Delivery Delay to define the processing time of the order.

Delivery Delay

When using delivery schedules you can set the processing days before delivery would occur. Times range from Same Day Delivery to +5 Operating Days.

When a time is selected an additional field, Delivery Delay, will appear.

A delivery delay defines the period of time between when an order is placed and when it will be delivered. Select from the drop-down menu.

This field will only show if a time is selected in the Order Cut-off field.

Available To

Whether this rule is applies to All Customers or Specific Customers Only.

If Specific Customers Only is selected, a Customer(s) field will show allowing you to select specific customers.

Customer(s)

Select the customers you would like this rule to be applied to.

This field will only show if Specific Customers Only is selected in the Available To field.

Label Template

The shipping label template or integration to use for orders with this shipping rule. Select from the drop-down menu.

If choosing an integration, make sure you have ticked "Send To [integration_name]" to ensure the order is synced. If the integration orders are not sent to the integration the label will fail to print. Select None to ignore labels for this rule.

Pick Priority

The pick priority for orders placed with this shipping rule. Select from the drop-down menu.

Warehouse Location

Whether or not to override the default warehouse location that orders for this shipping rule are mapped to. If set to Default it will use the setting defined in your Order Settings. If another location is defined the pick location and inventory will be allocation to the chosen location.

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Click .

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