How to create a Carrier Account with Hunter Express

When looking to set up a new account with Hunter Express you will need to contact their IT department and advise them that you are looking to despatch your account through MachShip. Their team can be contacted at itsupport@hunterexpress.com.au. Please cc integrations@machship.com in your email.

Your email should be as follows:

Hi Team, 

I need to set up my account <insert account code> with Hunter Express so that I may consign with my new FMS partner MachShip. Can you please provide me with an API username and Password so that I may be able to book my jobs.

Furthermore, If I qualify could I please obtain a prefix so that I may be able to set my own consignment number. 

Once the Hunter team responds then we need to fill out the specific options. There are 2 versions of the carrier in MachShip for Hunter. Hunter and HUNTEREXP

Specific Options for HUNTER:

For use of this version of Hunter please use the carrier Abbreviation HUNTER

Account Code - The account code would have been provided to you when your account was set up. 

API Username and Tracking Password -  This will be provided in the email above. 
To test that these are valid please try to log in at the following link.
https://api.hunterexpress.com.au/live/signin

Specific Options for HUNTEREXP

For use of this version of Hunter please use the carrier Abbreviation HUNTEREXP

Account Code - The account code would have been provided to you when your account was set up. 

API Username and Tracking Password -  This will be provided in the email above. 
To test that these are valid please try to log in at the following link.
https://api.hunterexpress.com.au/live/signin

Consignment Prefix - if applicable this will be provided to you on the email above

Consignment Reference Pool:

Reference pools are utilized by MachShip in order to maintain a count on connote, manifest and item numbers. The reference pool will ensure that each of those numbers is unique to what we have sent to the carrier previously. More information can be obtained on reference pools here. HUNTEREXP requires the creation of just 1 reference pool, for the Connote number.

To create the reference pool select the Create Carrier Reference Pool button at the bottom of the page. 

If you are creating a new account then the Reference Pools will be set to the following fields:

Pool Name - Set as HUNTEREXP Connote Pool <Account Code> 
Minimum Value - 1
Maximum Value - 999999 (that is six 9's)
Next Value -  1
Cyclical - No

Once created it will appear in the drop-down as below:

Should you already be trading on an existing account please set the next available field as 1000 consignments higher than the highest connote number on your previous account. 

Test:

Once the account has been set up and all of the rates have been added, you will need to run a test to ensure that upon go-live, everything will run successfully. To do this, create a consignment - please make Reference 1 and Reference 2 and the delivery special instructions THIS IS A TEST. Once this has been created please manifest the consignment to the carrier. If you experience any issues please contact support@machship.com.

If you receive a successful manifest message from MachShip then please send an email to itsupport@hunterexpress.com.au and advise their team that you are starting to despatch your Hunter Express account through MachShip and that you would like to receive verification on the test file and permission to start to trade. Please include the label pdf's for the manifest and the connote.

Advise the support team of the connote number and request that they should cancel this to ensure that you are not charged. Please cc integrations@machship.com on this email so we can help if required. 

On confirmation from the support team that the setup is validated, you are free to begin to consign.