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Get Started with Shipping Labels Only

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Written by Hayko

Get Started with Shipping Labels Only

This guide is for businesses that want to use QrX as a shipping platform: create carrier labels, automate carrier choice with rules, print to your own printers and keep customers informed with branded tracking. No payment at the door is involved. You can add Payment on Delivery later without starting over.

In PortalX this is the setup path I only need shipping labels in the Get Started guide (Settings > Business > Get started). The QrX Shipping Platform has a free plan to start; see "Pricing and Fees" for plans and label allowances.

1. Set Up Your Business

  1. Complete your company details. QrX keeps the company name, address and VAT or Chamber of Commerce number from your signup. If something is missing or changed, click Ask QrX in the step and QrX completes it for you. The step ticks when all details are known.

  2. Add your sender address (and a return address if parcels come back somewhere else): Settings > Operations > Addresses.

2. Connect Your Carriers

  1. Settings > Operations > Shipping Providers, Add Provider.

  2. Connect your own carrier contract (for example UPS with your client id and secret) to keep your negotiated rates, or ask QrX about QrX contract rates.

  3. Add method profiles for the services you ship with and mark one as default.

3. Automate and Print

  1. Printer: Settings > Preferences > Printing with PrintNode. Pick default label, packing and picking printers and the label format (PDF 4x6, PDF A6 or ZPL 4x6).

  2. Shipping rules: Settings > Operations > Shipping Rules. Choose the carrier by country, weight, amount or other conditions, and print automatically.

  3. Your first label: Transactions > Create Transaction with type No payment and Create shipment/label switched on, or import a CSV or Excel file on Transactions. Print from the list.

  4. Custom labels (optional): design your own ZPL labels in Settings > Preferences > QrX - ZPL Label Designer.

4. Keep Customers Informed

These steps are part of this path.

  • Brand your Track and Trace page: Settings > Operations > Track & Trace.

  • Customise tracking emails: Settings > Operations > Templates.

  • SMS delivery updates are optional and paid per message, and off by default: Merchant Channels, open the channel, Settings tab, SMS. The price is shown before you switch it on.

  • Open your Message Centre: Settings > Operations > Message Centre.

Add Payment on Delivery Later

Open the guide and change your path with the pencil icon to I want labels and payment at the door, no integration. Connect a payment provider, make a test payment at the door and ask QrX to go live. Your shipping setup stays as it is.

When to Contact Our Support Team

Contact QrX support to connect a carrier that uses a technical settings field, to ask about QrX contract rates, or if labels are refused by the carrier.

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