Freight carriers: live prices, booking and labels
Connect a carrier and Add freight on quotes, sales orders and invoices shows its live prices. Pack to the Future connects in one click; the others take an API key.
Where it is
Settings for this
- Integrations → Freight carriers — Connect, pause or disconnect each carrier; card for bookings; label size
- Settings → Shipping & freight — Where goods ship from, markup and your own rate tables
Open Integrations → Freight carriers. Each carrier has its own row.
- Pack to the Future (preferred partner): press Connect Pack to the Future to open your own Pack account in one click. Then under Charge bookings to press Add card (live bookings are refused until a card is saved), and Connect MyPost Business if you want Australia Post prices. Prices TNT, Aramex, Couriers Please, Australia Post and more. A test key books dummy consignments.
- MachShip: paste your API token to use your own carrier contracts, pallets included.
- Australia Post (retail): paste a free Postage Assessment Calculator key for retail parcel rates up to 22 kg.
- Transdirect: paste your API key; choose what bookings are charged to and the Label size (A4 or A6 thermal).
- Interparcel: paste your API key; booking, payment and labels finish in Interparcel.
Each connected carrier can be Paused, Resumed or Disconnected.
Once connected, Add freight on a quote, sales order or invoice shows live prices, and Dispatch can book and print labels. Where goods ship from, your markup and your own rate tables are under Settings → Shipping & freight.
If something's not right
- A carrier shows Paused on the Integrations page: press Resume.
- "Pack to the Future keys start with pttf_test_ or pttf_live_": check the key you pasted.
- "No card saved — live bookings are refused": add a card under Charge bookings to.
- Australia Post is missing from Pack prices: connect MyPost Business.