KFA Connect have begun development to integrate Order & Out with delivery giant DPD
Formerly Interlink Express, DPD Local are well known to us – with one of their local depots close to our Ringwood office. Together with sister company DPD, they have a combined turnover of over £1 billion and are considered the fastest-growing parcel delivery company in the UK.
Unlike the recent integration development work we carried out to integrate Order & Out with NetDespatch, this time we are doing it just for fun!
Having seen how much easier Order & Out subscribers Conker Spirit were now finding printing labels and generally dealing with the day-to-day despatching of their parcels, we wanted to share that same simplicity to other third-party logistics providers’ customers, and DPD seemed the first obvious choice.
Using API’s provided by DPD, we are now in the process of getting our Order & Out solution to talk to their system (and vice versa), which will allow many more companies despatching goods in a B2B environment to benefit from this seamless integration.
The result is that Order & Out subscribers using DPD as their logistics partner will be able to:
- Print labels from within the Order & Out screen.
- Facility for Order & Out to calculate the number of packages based on the weight of the products on the order.
- Calculate the delivery charge to the customer – if applicable, based on products on the order.
- Retrieve labels and despatch details, such as the consignment number (used for tracking), shipment and parcel numbers.
Add that to the Order & Out feature which will also deal with all your customer communications – triggering an email to your customer to confirm when items have been despatched.
We expect to launch this early September 2017.
Find out how Order & Out can help your business process orders, manage stock and deal with your customer communications here.