Business Functions of Ventoo Shipping

Ventoo Shipping adds the business functions around shipment labels to Business Central. The shipping process follows a clear lifecycle: a label is created from a source document or manually, validated, submitted to the carrier, the returned PDF is stored, and the label can then be printed, downloaded, and its tracking can be reviewed.

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Description

Request Shipping Labels

Create shipment labels from a sales order, a posted sales shipment, or manually, and submit them to the carrier.

View existing shipping labels

Find existing shipment labels in the list, download, preview, reprint, or jump back to the source document.

View Tracking

Open the tracking link, transport unit number, and barcode for each parcel.

Lifecycle of a shipment label

Each shipment label goes through the following statuses (table field Status, enum Label Status VTO):

Status

Meaning

Draft

Label has been created and can still be edited; it has not yet been sent to the carrier.

Sent

The request has been submitted to the carrier API; response is pending.

Success

The carrier has issued the label; PDF, transport unit numbers, and tracking link are stored.

Error

Validation or the API call has failed. The error text is shown in the Error Message field.

Cancelled

The label has been discarded manually.

In Draft status, all fields on a label are editable. Once the label has been sent, the fields are read-only; only the actions Download Label, Preview Label, Reprint Label, and Retry remain available.