All the best practices described in the following sections use the Shipping SOAP API to create, allocate and manage consignments, and generate the associated paperwork.
The workflows covered, in increasing order of complexity, are as follows:
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Basic Shipping (Basic)
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Ship and Hold (Intermediate)
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Pre-Ship Picking Optimisation (Advanced)
The best practices go on to cover some of the sub-workflows that can be used with any of the above:
Note
The workflows assume that you have been through the following API introductory sections: