Bulk importing consignments is best used for:

Promotional Activities

Sending the same freight item details (one carton or satchel) to multiple different receivers using the same Carrier Service.

Example

I want to send a promo box to all my Bunnings partners. I know that I have 50 Bunnings receivers and I have all the receiver details in a list.

OR

I have a new product demo that I want to have it sent to all my branches so they can have their customers test the new product.

Bulk importing consignments cannot be used for:

Dangerous Goods consignments

Dangerous Goods need to be officially declared, in OneFlo, due to DG compliance regulations. Dangerous Goods need item level information, which Bulk Uploads does not currently collect

Consolidation

Bulk imported consignments will not consolidate.

Bulk importing consignments is not recommended for:

Small number of consignments

Bulk uploading consignments could take longer than manually filling out the form in OneFlo. It is recommended for customers that frequently have more than 20 consignments created a day.

Returns

Bulk uploading consignments will be treated as an outbound consignment by the system. This could cause issues with the cost of the consignment.

Multiple items per consignment

A consignment will be created for each line in the csv file. If there are multiple items in a line, this will cause the consignment to divide the weight and volume by the number of items.

Large number of cons at once

Uploading a large file can put a lot of strain on the system and can take quite some time to load. It is not recommended to load more than 200 cons at a time. It is best practice to break large numbers of cons into 200 cons or less