How to create Carrier Account with Gold Tiger – Machship

When looking to set up a new account with Gold Tiger you will need to contact the Gold Tiger IT team and advise them that you are looking to despatch your account through MachShip. Please cc integrations@machship.com and your Gold Tiger account manager in your email.

Your email should be as follows:

Hi Team,

I need to set up my account <insert account code> with Gold Tiger so that I may consign with my new FMS partner MachShip.

Can you please advise what my consignment prefix should be? Can you please set up my account so that the tracking status updates are forwarded through to the MachShip FTP server?

Once the Gold Tiger team responds, you will then fill out the specific options:

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

Consignment Prefix - This will be the prefix received in the above email from the carrier

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. Gold Tiger 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.

Pool Name - Set as Gold Tiger <Acocunt Number> Cons Ref Pool

Minimum Value - 1

Maximum Value - 99999 (that is five 9's)

Next Value - 1

Cyclical - No

It will appear as below:

Once created, it will appear in the drop-down 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 job- please make Reference 1 and Reference 2 and the delivery special instructions THIS IS A TEST. Once this has been created it will be booked in with the carrier.

If you receive a successful manifest message from MachShip then please send an email to your account managerand advise them that you are starting to despatch your Gold Tiger account through MachShip and that you would like to receive verification on the test file and permission to start to trade.

Please include 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.

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