Custom Carrier
Adding your own carrier / lastmile solution to fulfillmenttools
Apart from the provided carriers fulfillmenttools offers another option of carrier usage: The so called Custom Carrier. Those represent carriers that are not natively supported by fulfillmenttools, but are connected by an external service or operative process. The idea here is that a customer can connect his own fleet or an arbitrary way of delivery into fulfillmenttools.
Some examples for a custom carrier setup could be
Sending parcels via a local bike carrier, that is called by phone or messenger when needed
the shop owner, who takes parcels to a local carrier pickup point whenever it suits the operational process (maybe on his way home after work)
an own carrier fleet that delivers goods on its own schedule using detached tooling (like a standalone routing service & delivery app)
Multiple custom carriers possible
While it is not possible to have more than one provided carrier in a system, it is possible to configure multiple custom carriers. Since the carrier key
is used for identification and thus must be unique, a custom carrier must have the key starting with CUSTOM
followed by any appendix (e.g. CUSTOM_BOSSONBIKE)
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