Carrier country service mapping
This concept helps define, validate, and ensure the presence of required values for specific carrier and country service combinations.
While Carrier companies such as DHL or FedEx serve the same business (in a nutshell: transporting goods from A to B) their APIs and Interfaces look and behave differently.
In fulfillmenttools, Carrier Country Service Mappings (CCSMs) are used to simplify the implementation of clients that gather all the information needed before even requesting a parcel label. In a way they serve as a template for successful label requests of arbitrary order contents.
A Carrier Country Service Mapping (CCSM) can be defined per carrier.
For carriers managed directly by fulfillmenttools, it is not necessary to configure any CCSM, as these are already provided.
A carrier can have one, multiple, or no Carrier Country Service Mappings. If no configuration exists for a required source/destination combination, the likelihood of runtime errors increases as clients may lack the necessary data to proceed.
A CCSM can have one source but multiple destinations to allow for configurations like "For every parcel with carrier X from Germany to France, the US, Canada or Sweden the following configuration is valid". This eases the configuration of new carriers as they often need to be configured similarly.
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