Welcome! In this quick start guide we take you through the steps to start shipping with Trunkrs, managing your shipments and managing your organisation within our new Shipping Portal.
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First time use
Setting up your Trunkrs Shipping Portal account is super simple and will take you no more than 2 minutes. We’ll briefly go over the steps and we will have you on board of our portal in no time - just follow along.
Receiving your invite
To access the Trunkrs Shipping Portal you will need an invite. This invite can be provided to you by our customer success manager. You will find it in your inbox as soon as it has been sent. An example email is shown below.
Creating your organisation
Before you can access the portal, you will need to provide some details about your organisation, so we can set you up. This will provide us the necessary information about your company, but also - for example - where we will be collecting your shipments. Simply fill out the details in the form you are seeing in front of you after accepting the invite.
Organisation name → This the name of your company!
Contact email address → This is the person who we can approach if we have questions.
Street name + house number → The location of your company. If you have a separate warehouse address, fill this one out, as we use it to know where to collect shipments.
Postal code
City
Country → The country you are based in.
Creating your first user
Every new organisation needs a first user. This will automatically be the owner of the organisation, but do not worry, you can always change this later! Fill out the details in the first user form underneath the organisation form.
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That’s it, you are now done setting up your organisation and you are ready to start using our Shipping Portal.
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Shipment Creation
Within the Trunkrs Shipping Portal there are multiple ways to create shipments. In this section we will go over the possible ways and explain how to use them.
Creating multiple shipments by uploading a spreadsheet (CSV / TSV / TXT)
This is the simplest option we have. The only thing you need is a spreadsheet with shipping details and you are good to go. Your spreadsheet doesn’t even need to be edited in most cases, because we can easily map your spreadsheet headers to match the details that we need. In the steps below we explain how to do this.
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To make sure your shipment data is correct and usable for creating shipments, you will be shown a review window. In this overview you can see all the shipments that we are about to create for you. Any missing or incorrect data will be highlight in red. If you have red fields, you can simply add or edit data to these fields in this view, no need to go back and re-upload.
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That’s it, your shipments have been created successfully. The header mapping you did will be memorized by our application, so the next time you upload a spreadsheet you can just directly create the shipments you want to create, without any hassle!
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Managing Shipments
Once you have created your first shipments, you can access them through our Shipments List. This list will provide you all the necessary insights about what shipments you have, what happened to them and it will also provide you some actions you can perform on your shipments such as canceling and printing labels.
Shipments List
This list forms the home page of the application. It’s the list that shows all of your shipments, both new and old, freshly created and already delivered. By clicking on one of the shipments you can view everything has happened to it.
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Searching Shipments
As you go, you are building up a lot of shipments. This might make it hard to find back particular shipments. That’s why we have created a simple, yet powerful Smart Search for you. Simply hit the search bar at the top of the Shipments List, select what you would like to search for and you will have the shipment(s) you are looking for in no time.
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You can search in multiple shipments parameters at the same time. Looking for every person named John over the last month? No problem. Just select Recipient name and fill out John. After that, add another search parameter and select Delivery Date with the last month selected. |
Cancelling shipments
Sometimes it happens that wrong shipments have been created, or maybe an order was cancelled by the recipient. In this case we have an easy cancel option for one or multiple shipments at the same time.
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Search the shipments you are looking for > select the shipments by using the checkbox on the left side of the list > a bottom drawer will open up > cancel shipments > all shipments selected will now be canceled
Print labels
For printing labels we can follow the same logic as with cancelling, just as easy.
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At the time of writing this your label print jobs - as we call them - are both being displayed in the top right corner of the application, as well as they will be emailed to the user that is hitting the print button. Emailing the labels will eventually be deprecated. |
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Giving feedback
As the Shipping Portal is still under heavy development, we cherish all the feedback that we can get on how to improve the application to be the best possible for our customers. Therefore we ask you kindly to give feedback on anything that you have noticed while using the application.
To give feedback you simply hit the Give Feedback button on the right lower corner of your screen. Here you will see all the former suggestions that have been made by other users. You can vote on those suggestions if you find them valuable as well, or you can post a new suggestion!
Thanks in advance!
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That’s it - you are now ready to ship!
Hopefully this guide was helpful to set everything up for shipping. If you have any questions you can always reach out to us via your customer success manager!
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