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Depending on specific account requirements, various options and settings can be changed to improve performance. Some options that could reduce performance might be set for an account that does not need those options.

Many of these options are setting set in aadmin (see https://shiphawk.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AAAG/overview ), on the Edit Account page.

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Review if ‘Allow book shipment before rating’ is required

The Allow book shipment before rating option (field name: allow_book_shipment_before_rating - this options makes ) directs the system to NOT rate a shipment before booking for parcel carriers.If Enabled

This option can be set for an account from the Edit Account page in aadmin.

If this option is enabled:

  • The system will rate the shipment after booking in async mode. The Item Fulfillment

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  • (IF) write-back will be made AFTER the shipment is rated in background.

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  • The cost/price in NetSuite will be correct, but there may be an additional delay

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  • for the

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  • write-back (normally

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  • within 1 minute).

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  • If the customer is

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  • including the shipping cost/price in their document templates (for packing slips, carton labels, mil labels,

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  • and so on), the cost/price

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  • could be missing or incorrect. Most likely you

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  • do NOT want to enable

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  • Allow book

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  • shipment

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  • before

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  • rating for

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  • accounts that need the actual shipping cost

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  • accurately displayed by the document templates. In this case, consider removing the cost/price information from

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  • account's document template

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  • . The default document template includes

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  • the cost/price information, so be sure to remove that from the template if that information is not needed by the account’s use cases.

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Review number of carriers used by the account

  • Rating time depends on the number of carriers account has. More carriers - longer request.

  • Booking time depends on how many Packages/SLIs/OLIs we have in order.

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