Carriage Type¶

The ‘Carriage Type’ system table is used to set up the amounts for carriage surcharges.

The amounts are hold against the carriage type records. When the order is saved, if the carriage surcharge held against the carriage
type record is > 0, then a carriage detail line is added.

The ‘Carriage Type’ field in the ‘Customers’ form (Sales Files > Customers > Carriage > Carriage Type) looks up this table. The user may select
an option from the drop down list. The selected option will then be reflected in the order entry form (Window Blind Amend). If the carriage type
is not selected in the ‘Customers’ form, the ‘Carriage Type’ field in the order entry form will look up this system table. The user will be able
to select an option from the drop down list.

The ‘Default’ field is used to set up the carriage type which will be specified at the order entry stage (‘Carriage Type’ field) by default if the
carriage type has not been specified in the ‘Customers’ form.

Any orders on Blindata that have Carriage Type flagged as Saturday delivery will enter a despatch date of the next calendar Friday (or the current
Friday, if despatched on a Friday,) in to the City link CSV file.

It is now possible to hold an amount against the carriage type record.
For example, a pre 10.30 delivery may have a carriage surcharge, and this can be held here.

When the order is saved, if the carriage surcharge held against the carriage type record is > 0, then a carriage detail line is added to the order.

Please note for this to work there needs to be a stock item record with link option = ‘Carriage Surcharge’ set up.
Please note there are now option name codes for ‘Carriage’, ‘Carriage Surcharge’ and ‘Carriage by Postcode’.
These must be set up along with stock items that have these as link options.
This replaces the ‘Carriage’ and ‘Carriage Surcharge’ flags in the stock records.

This has been done so the system can distinguish between these different carriage charges when orders are being saved.

Blind Details > Blind Types

There is a new flag in the blind type record called 'Exclude From Carriage Charge' which defaults to false.
At the 'Create Invoice' stage, if all of the blinds on the order have blind type 'Exclude From Carriage' = true, carriage is not added to the order.