Keywords

This section lists the key words that Aptean Ship recognizes when interpreting input values. Note that Aptean Ship ignores upper/lower case letters when interpreting the input fields.

Country

Aptean Ship looks at the Country field before interpreting the Ship Via/Service fields.

Input Value

Interpreted As

USA, U.S.A., U.S., United
States
USA
Canada Canada
any other value Country other than the USA or Canada can be selected from the Country drop-down list.

Ship Via

These tables show Aptean Ship’s interpretation of the following Ship Via values:

Carrier

Carrier keywords are used in conjunction with their corresponding domestic and international service and option keywords. Example: Aptean Ship translates UPS & 2ND & AM as UPS 2ND DAY AIR A.M

Input Value

Interpreted As

UPS, U.P.S UPS
FDXG, FDX G, FEDEXG, FEDEX
G
FedEx Ground
FEDEX, FDX FedEx Express
USPS, PARCEL POST, MAIL USPS
DHL, D.H.L DHL
SPEE-DEE Spee-Dee
User-Defined Short Name,
User-Defined Long Name
User-defined Carrier 1-10

Contract Services

Input Value

Interpreted As

(DEFAULT) STANDARD
100, HWT, MWT UPS HWT

FDXG MWT

UPS Domestic

Note: An “&” symbol indicates that both values are present.

Input Value

Interpreted As

(DEFAULT) GROUND
GR, GT GROUND
3 3RD DAY SELECT
2ND & AM, 2ND & A.M, SECOND &
AM, SECOND & A.M, BLUE &
AM, BLUE & A.M
2ND DAY AIR A.M.
2ND, SECOND, BLUE 2ND DAY AIR
1 & SAV, NEXT & SAV, RED &
SAV
NEXT DAY AIR SAVER
1, NEXT, RED NEXT DAY AIR
EARLY EARLY A.M.
GROUNDTRAC GROUNDTRAC
HWT HUNDREDWEIGHT
(ANY SERVICE) & COLLECT BILL RECIPIENT

UPS Canada

Input Value

Interpreted As

(DEFAULT) STANDARD

EXPEDITE, BLUE

EXPEDITED

AIR, EXPRESS, RED

EXPRESS

UPS International

Input Value

Interpreted As

(DEFAULT) EXPEDITED

EXPRESS, RED

EXPRESS

FedEx Express Domestic

Input Value

Interpreted As

(DEFAULT)

STANDARD OVERNIGHT

XPR

EXPRESS SAVER

2, ECON 2ND DAY

PRI

PRIORITY OVERNIGHT

1ST, FIRST

FIRST OVERNIGHT

FREIGHT & 1

1DAY FREIGHT

FREIGHT & 2

2DAY FREIGHT

FREIGHT & 3

3DAY FREIGHT

FedEx Express International

Input Value

Interpreted As

(DEFAULT) PRIORITY OVERNIGHT
ECON FEDEX INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY
FREIGHT & ECON ECONOMY FREIGHT
FREIGHT PRIORITY FREIGHT

FedEx Ground Domestic

Input Value

Interpreted As

(DEFAULT) GROUND

FedEx Ground Canada

Input Value

Interpreted As

(DEFAULT) GROUND

USPS Domestic

Input Value

Interpreted As

1ST, FIRST

FIRST CLASS

(DEFAULT) PARCEL POST
PRIORITY PRIORITY
EXPRESS EXPRESS
BOOK, SP MEDIA MAIL
BOUND BOUND PRINTED MATTER

USPS International

Note: An “&” symbol indicates that both values are present.

Input Value

Interpreted As

USPS, MAIL, PARCEL POST

PARCEL POST AIRMAIL

PARCEL POST ECONOMY, PARCEL POST SURFACE, PP SURFACE

PARCEL POST ECONOMY

PP AIR, PARCEL POST AIR,
AIRMAIL

PARCEL POST AIRMAIL
LP SURFACE, LETTER POST SURFACE, LETTER POST
ECONOMY

LETTER POST ECONOMY

LP AIR, LETTER POST AIR

LETTER POST AIRMAIL

PUBLISH, PERIODICAL PUBLISHERS’ PERIODICALS

EXPRESS

GLOBAL EXPRESS MAIL
PRIORITY GLOBAL PRIORITY MAIL

DHL International

Input Value

Interpreted As

(DEFAULT)

PRIORITY EXPRESS

DOCUMENT SERVICE

Spee-Dee

Input Value

Interpreted As

(DEFAULT) GROUND

Packaging

Input Value

Interpreted As

(DEFAULT) OTHER
LETTER, LTR LETTER

Terms/COD

Aptean Ship interprets the input value in the Terms (also called COD) field as defined below.  Note that the Primary COD Type can be set up from Setup > Preferences.

Input Value

Key 1

Key 2

COD, C.O.D.
COD, C.O.D. CERT, GUAR, CASH

Bill Freight

This is the input value of the Billing field.

Input Value

Interpreted As

S UPS Prepaid;

FedEx Express and FedEx Ground: Sender;

DHL Sender;

USPS Sender

R UPS Freight Collect;

FedEx Express and FedEx Ground: Recipient;

DHL Recipient;

USPS Recipient

T UPS, FedEx Express, FedEx Ground, DHL: Third Party
RECIP FedEx Ground Recipient
C UPS Consignee Billed;

FedEx Express and FedEx Ground: Collect

COLLECT UPS Recipient

FedEx Ground Collect

CLT FedEx Ground Collect