Glossary Item Box
Fastway is a courier that offers shipping via franchises in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Northern Ireland, and South Africa.
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Squirrelcart supports using Fastway for shipping within Australia only. |
Fastway handles their shipping using pre-paid labels that you must buy in advance.
Using Fastway's API, you can obtain rate information for shipments to Australia. Learn more about Fastway.
Storefront features for your customers
Control panel features for you
To use Fastway, you must have an API key. You must also enter your store's Australian address information on the Store Settings page.
Obtaining an API key
Enabling Fastway
Configuring Label Pricing
Fastway shipping is done via pre-purchased labels and satchels (envelopes). Labels are sold by regional franchises that handle shipping from specific origins. They come in different colors corresponding to different destination areas.
Each label handles up to 5kg. For shipments over 5kg, excess shipping labels must be used, up to a maximum of 25kg.
For each warehouse you ship from, you must specify which labels you have already purchased and the price you paid for them. This is how Squirrelcart determines rates during checkout.
How to Configure Label Pricing
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If you have more than one warehouse location that uses the same Fastway regional franchise, only enter your label info for one of those locations. |
Address Autocompletion
With Fastway enabled, your customers can auto complete their state, city, and postal code using values they type in either the city field or postal code field. Example:
When a value is selected, the city, state, and postal code fields are automatically populated.
Enabling Address Autocompletion
Open the Fastway courier record in the control panel and check the Autocomplete Addresses field.
Rate Lookups
Rate Lookups During Checkout
With Endicia enabled, your customers will get live rate information (real time rates) as they checkout. This is discussed in the Real Time Rates topic.
In order to make the rates presented to your customers as accurate as possible, we recommend that you enable the "Ship as a Separate Package" field on products that are shipping in separate boxes. You can then specify package dimensions below the field. Those dimensions will be sent to Endicia during rate requests.
Rate Lookups in the Control Panel
For info on this feature, see this topic.
Tracking Shipments
For info on tracking shipments via Endicia, see this topic.
Pickup Requests
For instructions on submitting pickup requests, see the separate pickup request topic.
Address Validation
We support address validation via Endicia's Dial-A-ZIP API, which can be used to correct address during checkout and when creating shipping labels. For more info on this, see the Address Validation topic.
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