How do I know if paperless/electronic invoicing is applied to a shipment?

ANSWER

ShipHawk automatically submits commercial invoices electronically for the following services:

UPS (via Electronic Data Interchange, or EDI),
DHL Express (Paperless Trade, or PLT), and
FedEx (via Electronic Trade Documents, or ETD).

ShipHawk will perform this automatically as long as electronic commercial invoices are enabled in your carrier account.

Note that not all the countries accept electronic commercial invoices and in such cases, a copy of the commercial invoice is required.

To identify whether the commercial invoice has been sent or not, you will need to check the shipment label where an additional abbreviation will be applied to indicate the commercial invoice format. See the examples listed below for reference.

Contact ShipHawk if you have further questions.

DHL Label will display ‘PLT’

FedEx Label will display ‘ETD’

UPS Label will display EDI