How to create a Carrier Account with Bass Strait Transport

The set up with the carrier Bass Strait Transport does not require any specific information to be provided by their IT team, as such the only specific options are:

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

Consignment Prefix - The consignment prefix can be set to be whatever you desire - typically this would be an account code

Reference Pools - Reference pools are utilised by MachShip in order to maintain a count on connotes, 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.

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

Pool Name - Set as Bass Strait Transport <Account Code> Cons Ref Pool
Minimum Value - 1
Maximum Value - 999999 (that is six 9's)
Next Value -  1
Cyclical - No

 It will appear as below:

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

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 your account manager and advise them that you are starting to despatch your Bass Strait Transport account through MachShip and that you would like to receive verification on the test file and permission to start to trade. 

Advise the support team of the consignment 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.