How to Create a Carrier Account with Bonds Transport

When looking to set up a new account with Bonds Transport you will need to contact their team and advise them that you are looking to despatch your account through MachShip. The best point of contact would be your account manager. Please cc integrations@machship.com in your email.

Your email should be as follows:

Hi Bonds Team, 

I need to set up my account <insert account code> with BondsTransport so that I may consign with my new FMS partner MachShip. Can you please advise what Authorization Code should be?

Furthermore, can you please configure all the event updates and POD's to be sent back to the MachShip FTP container. Can you please ensure that these are in the XML API format as per the other MachShip Accounts

Once the Bonds team responds then we need to fill out the specific options. 

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

Authorization Code - This will be provided in the email above

Consignment Prefix - The consignment prefix can be set to be whatever your would like. 

Reference Pools - Reference pools are utilised 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. Bonds Transport 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 Bonds Connote Ref Pool <Account Code> 
Minimum Value - 1
Maximum Value - 999999 (that is six 9's)
Next Value -  1
Cyclical - N0

It will appear as below:

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. 

Ratecard:

Bonds Transport is configured to price off the Carriers System and as such you will need to extract and upload the ratecard in the below format. This will contain all the available services for the Bonds Transport local movements. 

Notes:

1. Set your Account Code in the Ratecard field

2. Please set the from zone and to zone as being one of:

SYD_METRO
MEL_METRO
BNE_METRO
PER_METRO
ADL_METRO

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 Bonds 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 job 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.