Thursday, April 12, 2007

Turn Shipping Labor Hours into Minutes

TransGuardian has introduced a method of batch producing USPS labels that turns hours of labor time into minutes.

If you have order-order taking software, you simply export today's orders to an Excel file (or to a .csv or ASCII file and convert to Excel).

Send the file to TransGuardian, and we'll do the data mapping to enable Batch Upload for your account.

Now you can upload the .csv file in the TransGuardian Insured USPS Shipping Module. The module enters all package level-detail into the appropriate fields to generate a USPS bar-coded label with a tracking number.

Yes, it can auto-fill your internal reference or billing number, too.

Our software presents you with a list of all the packages to be sent with a check box (so you can select or de-select that package) showing the total quotation for each package, including postage and insurance, if any.

It takes 3 seconds per label to turn your order-entry data into the USPS Labels of your choice. So 100 labels take 5 minutes to generate, and another few minutes to print, depending on the speed of your printe.

The Labels are produced in a multi-page Adobe .pdf. That means you can print them one at a time or all at once, and if any page misfeeds, you can simply choose to print that page again.

One large shipper of 50-100 packages per day told us:

We've been spending 5-7 hours per day preparing labels, even before we started using TransGuardian. Now the whole process takes 15-30 minutes. We hit the button, go get a cup of coffee, come back and we're done. Now we don't have to hire more people to handle future growth. All we have to worry about is what to do with the extra 4-5 hours per day!

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