About label to dock door hours when processing a shipment

When you make a call to Shipium's Carrier and Method Selection service, you can optionally provide a Label to Dock Door Hours value in the API call to ensure missing any potential carrier pickup cutoff times for your fulfillment center. This optional setting allows your organization to instruct the Shipium platform to specify the amount of time required between printing a label and moving the package with that label to the dock door for loading onto the appropriate carrier transport after the label has been printed and prior to the critical pull time for the dock door.

The Label to Dock Door Hours value is used in conjunction with established carrier pull times for your fulfillment center and the intended shipment date to filter carrier options during carrier selection calls and calculate the effective ship date. Carriers whose last pull time falls within the "label to dock door hours" after the intended shipment time will be excluded, preventing potential missed cutoffs.

Label to dock door hours code sample

This example shows how to handle label to dock door hours in API calls. The following can be added to the Carrier and Method Selection & Shipment Labels request within the shipment parameters, as illustrated here, or within the multi-parcel shipment parameters. Its float value can be expressed as a rational number in decimals (e.g., 0.25) to represent the percentage of a full hour. For example, a value of 0.25 represents 25% of the hour, or 15 minutes, while a value of 1.25 represents 1 hour and 15 minutes.

{
 "shipmentParameters": {
...
    "configurationOverrides": {
        "labelToDockDoorHours": 1.5
    },
      ...
 }

Resources

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