Carrier Country Service Mapping
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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 very differently. The access is very unique from carrier to carrier and also the provided information varies - even within the interface of the same carrier but with different source or destination countries.
In fulfillmenttools Carrier Country Service Mappings (CCSMs) is 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.
Please go to the for more information on how to connect add a Carrier Country Service Mapping via API.
A CCSM can be defined per carrier.
For carriers operated by fulfillmenttools it is not necessary to set any CCSM - it is provided by fulfillmenttools.
A carrier can have multiple or none Carrier Country Service Mappings. When there is no configuration for a needed source/destination combination the possibility of issues during runtime increases due to clients not knowing which data needs to be present.
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 and their often similar configuration