How to add and set up a UDS Billing Account [Step-by-Step guide]

Modified on Tue, 17 Sep at 11:11 AM

When setting up your Clients in techShip, you will have to configure Billing Accounts to ship through them. These use a Baseline Account as a foundation, but their way to work could be different based on the Client's needs.

When setting Billing Accounts, you will be able to specify how it should work for that specific client, setting label references, packing slips usage, rate shopping, markups, WMS information updating and Carrier options such as the default service level, address validation, sender and return addresses, etc.

This article describes the procedure to set up a UDS billing account, while others are specifically written for other Carriers.

Feel free to follow the step-by-step guide written below or the video guide, as you prefer:

To set up a UDS billing account, define the following and then Save:

ADD THE ACCOUNT TO THE CLIENT PROFILE

1. Access Clients under the Maintenance menu

2. Click on the Client for which you wish to set up the billing account

3. Press Add Billing Account

4. Select the source account which will be used and Save

5. Edit the Billing account

SET UP THE GENERAL OPTIONS

The General Options tab is the same for every carrier. If you are already acquainted with it from previous setups, please configure it accordingly.

If this is your first time setup or you aren't acquainted to it, refer to the following article and once finished, return to this one to set up the carrier specific options:

How to configure the Billing Account General Options tab [Step-by-Step guide]

SET UP THE CARRIER OPTIONS

The Carrier Options tab allows to set up basic and advanced features of your UDS billing account.

These are the key elements:

REQUIRED

A) Default Service Code: Choose a service code to assign to imported orders which don’t have a service code or keep it if they have.

OPTIONAL

Order Reference: Select a field from the dropdown or write a value to use as a fixed reference.
Package Tracking number: Select a field from the dropdown or write a value to use as a fixed reference.
Piece number: Select a field from the dropdown or write a value to use as a fixed reference.
Signature required: Select an arbitrary option to override signature flags coming as part of the order, or leave as default to have each order report their signature flag individually; enabled forces signature to all orders processed through the account, while disabled forces removing signature

Press Save to apply the changes. If the information is valid, you'll be able to process orders through it.