How to create shipments in Magento 2?

E-commerce has transformed the way the whole world goes about business. With e-commerce business have been brought closer to the people and such businesses have been able to reach more people. Every online store owner understands that as important as it is to get customers and guests to your online store to buy products, it is equally as important for the products to get to them. Surely, this is where shipping comes to play an important role.

Perfect shipping as a rule

In shipping products, such products have to arrive at the designated time and in the proper condition. In fact, no customer wants to buy destroyed goods or have the wrong goods delivered to their homes or workplaces. It doesn’t matter how much time and investment you have put into your online store. It would all seem useless if the goods are unable to reach the customers in the right condition or sending the wrong products to different customers. If you are looking to expand your business, you should pay attention to such little details such as the sending of goods to the right location. Customers are sometimes hard to please but nothing speaks better than delivering the goods to the right location.

If you are in charge of an e-commerce business, you will constantly come across different Magento shipping methods and a lot of shipping companies. Delivering your goods from your store to the customer as fast as possible and in the right condition can create a positive impression on the customer. It is important that you maintain a high level of service to ensure you keep your customers loyal to you. If your shipping process managing flaws, your customer feedback will be far from great. Unfortunately, it may lead to a massive drop in the sales of your online store. However, most of the shipping methods are designed to take care of all this needs and requirements. Usually, they provide you with the best shipment strategies possible.

Provide service with a 5-star rating now is easier than ever!

Mageside have different Magento extensions but this particular Mass Order Processing extension is important to every e-commerce business. We at Mageside understand that there is no better marketing strategy than providing quality service. Our team always poises to create convenient Magento extensions that will aid you in order management system of all the aspects of your sales process.

Orders are placed from time to time and there is a tendency for orders to get mixed up. Magento helps to manage your order management system and keeps the orders in the right alignment. The running of Magento shipping process has a proper organization, but our module helps to reduce the time of creating shipments from the backend by making all the manipulations available on a single page of your admin panel.

By making use of this module, you no longer have to navigate from a location to another on the store. All the tools needed have been fused and put in a single page on your admin panel. Due to this, we are happy to introduce the Mass Order Processing extension to you. It is actually a Magento shipping module. Now it is easier to create and add combinations of actions from the order grid. Namely, this includes adding tracking number, invoices, and shipments. These actions are critically important to maintaining a functional Magento shipping. Our module helps you to make sure all of such details handles properly. Also, with this extension, you can easily process all those actions to as many orders as you need at once. This will eliminate all the stress of having to process such actions for individual orders which will consequently slow down the shipping process.

This way you get to serve your customer better and keep them coming back. A fast Magento shipping process will also make you provide services to your clients with a 5-star rating. This will eliminate the negative complaints and feedback you may have been receiving due to the problems experienced by customers in getting their goods from your store. If you want those customers coming back for more, make use of Mass Order Processing module for Magento 2 and enjoy all the features that come with it.

Samples

To create shipment you have several ways depending on established buyers' payment method "authorization" or "authorization and capture".

If your customer used a kind of payment in which payment method is established as “authorization”, with the help of our extension you can add such combinations of actions from the order greed:

  1. Tracking Number + Ship:

    From our example, Talulah Page made an order and she receives the email with “Order confirmation” with her order number #000000011 on her email box.

  2. Confirmation Order #000000011

    To generate a combination of tracking number and shipment you need to select necessary orders in the order grid. Then, tick on the corresponding checkboxes of the necessary orders. Also, select the Carrier in a dropdown list and fill in Title and Number boxes.

    Example. Tracking Number. Order #000000011

    The next step for you is to select the Ship in the Actions dropdown list. In this segment, it is possible to add Shipment Comments, choose additional functions such as Append Comments and Email Copy of Shipment. In this case, we intend to create tracking number and shipment so all checkboxes are ticked.

    After making the necessary steps, click to Submit Shipment(s).

    Example.Actions dropdown list

    After making all the manipulations, the confirmation of the creation shipment(s) for order(s) appears above the order grid.

    Created shipment

    For you to be sure that your actions are correct, navigate to the necessary order page and check the Shipments section.

    Shipments section of the order

    Click View in Action column to see more details and the tracking number.

    Created tracking number of the order

    Moreover, Talulah Page received an email “Order has shipped” (with the comment and tracking number) right after your actions.

    Order has shipped email
  3. Tracking Number + Invoice + Ship:

    From our example, Talulah Page made an order and she receives the email with “Order confirmation” with her order number #000000012 on her email box.

  4. Confirmation Order #000000012

    To generate a combination of tracking number, invoice, and shipment you need to select necessary orders in the order grid. Then, tick on the corresponding checkboxes of the necessary orders. Also, select the Carrier in a dropdown list and fill in Title and Number boxes.

    Example. Tracking Number. Order #000000012

    The next step for you is to select the Invoice in the Actions dropdown list. In this segment, it is possible to add Invoice Comments, choose additional functions such as Append Comments, Email Copy of Invoice and Create Shipment. In this case, we intend to create tracking number, invoice and shipment so all checkboxes are ticked. You will also be able to choose in Capture field between Capture Online, Capture Offline and Not Capture.

    After making the necessary steps, click to Submit Invoice(s).

    Example.Actions dropdown list

    After making all the manipulations, the confirmation of the creation invoice(s) for order(s) appears above the order grid.

    Created shipment

    For you to be sure that your actions are correct, navigate to the necessary order page and check the Invoice section.

    Invoice section of the order

    In the Shipments section, you can find a created shipment.

    Created shipment of the order

    Click View in Action column to see more details and the tracking number.

    Created tracking number of the order

    Moreover, Talulah Page received emails of “Order” (with the comment and number of the invoice) and “Order has shipped” (with the comment and tracking number) right after creating them.

    Order email Order has shipped email

    If your customer used a kind of payment in which payment method is established as “authorize and capture”, with the help of our extension you can add Tracking Number + Ship combination from the order grid (because in such method of payment the Invoice will be created automatically).

  5. Tracking Number + Ship:

    From our example, Talulah Page made an order and she receives the email with “Order confirmation” with her order number #000000015 on her email box.

  6. Confirmation Order #000000015

    To generate a combination of tracking number and shipment you need to select necessary orders in the order grid. Then, tick on the corresponding checkboxes of the necessary orders. Also, select the Carrier in a dropdown list and fill in Title and Number boxes.

    Example. Tracking Number. Order #000000015

    The next step for you is to select the Ship in the Actions dropdown list. In this segment, it is possible to add Shipment Comments, choose additional functions such as Append Comments and Email Copy of Shipment. In this case, we intend to create tracking number and shipment so should tick all checkboxes.

    After making the necessary steps, click to Submit Shipment(s).

    Example.Actions dropdown list

    After making all the manipulations, the confirmation of the creation shipment(s) for order(s) appears above the order grid.

    Created shipment

    For you to be sure that your actions are correct, navigate to the necessary order page and check the Shipments section.

    Shipments section of the order

    Click View in Action column to see more details and the tracking number.

    Created tracking number of the order

    As was already mentioned, that in “authorize and capture” method of payment the Invoice will be created automatically. You can check it in the Invoices section.

    Invoices section of the order

    Moreover, Talulah Page received an email “Order has shipped” (with the comment and tracking number) right after your actions.

    Order has shipped email

    Be attentive, you can add Ship by itself and then separately add a Tracking number to the order, but in this case, the email “Order has shipped” will be sent to the buyer without tracking number.

    Note: tracking number cannot be added to the order by itself.

    More features of a Mass Order Processing extension is found here:


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