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Product Categories added to Order

This classification helps with reporting, filtering, and organizing your freight by product type, making it easier to analyze shipping patterns and costs

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Written by Shipwell TMS Support
Updated over a week ago

HOW TO USE PRODUCT CATEGORIES

1.Navigate to order creation or editing

  • From the main navigation, go to Orders

  • Click "Create Order" to start a new order, or select an existing order to
    edit

  • The order form displays line items where you can add products

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3. Add or edit a line item

  • In the order form, scroll to the Line Items section

  • Click "Add Line Item" to add a new product, or click an existing line
    item to edit it

  • The line item form displays fields for product details including
    quantity, weight, dimensions, and description

4. Select or specify the product category

  • Within the line item form, locate the Product Category field

  • Click the dropdown or selection field to change product category, otherwise if adding a product from your product catalog, the product category may
    be pre-populated from the saved product information

    5. Save the line item and complete the order

  • After selecting the product category, complete any other required line
    item fields

  • Click "Save" or "Add" to save the line item to your order

  • The product category is now associated with this line item

  • When you create a shipment from this order, the product category
    information flows through to the shipment line items automatically

6. View product categories on shipments

  • When viewing shipments created from orders, the product category appears
    on each line item

  • Product category information remains intact when adding or removing orders
    from shipments

  • Use this categorization for reporting and filtering shipments by product
    type

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