How to Add a Metropolitan Warehouse & Delivery Client (Billing) Account [Guide]

Modified on Tue, 3 Mar at 8:10 PM

This guide explains how to add and configure a Metropolitan Warehouse & Delivery Client (Billing) Account.

A Client (Billing) Account assigns a carrier connection to a specific Client and defines how that carrier behaves for that Client.

For a complete overview of supported carriers and related setup guides, refer to techSHIP supported Carriers - Master List [Guides List].

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Prerequisites
Carrier-Specific Instructions
Next Steps

Prerequisites

Before adding a (Billing) Account, ensure that:

The Client Profile has been created. See: How to create a Client profile [Step-by-Step guide].
This setup uses a Baseline Account as the foundation. To create and configure one specific to this carrier, see: How to Add a Metropolitan Warehouse & Delivery Baseline Account [Guide].
Follow the configuration steps as described in How to Add a Client (Billing) Account [Step-by-Step guide] using the values provided below.

Carrier-Specific Instructions

The Carrier tab contains the Metropolitan Warehouse & Delivery-specific configuration used to define operational behavior for this Client (Billing) Account.

Service code: Default service selection for this billing account. If set to [Use Order], the order’s service selection is used. Service code can auto-populate depending on order context.

Override WMS Service Code: When enabled, forces techSHIP to override the inbound/WMS service mapping and use the billing account/service selection rules.

Skip price validation: Optional validation bypass. Use only if your workflow requires ignoring price validation checks for this client.

Package type: Mandatory package classification used for operational handling and carrier request formatting.

Packing details: Mandatory packing method/descriptor used by the carrier integration (client-level behavior).

Type of pickup: Optional field to specify pickup building type for this client account (use when your operation needs it).

Payment Type: Optional. Defines client-level billing/payment behavior for shipments when applicable.

Sender name: Mandatory shipper contact/name used on documents.

Configure as a single field in techSHIP unless your internal standard requires splitting.

Sender company: Mandatory company/legal name used as shipper for this client account.

Override sender address: When enabled, overrides the shipper address with the values configured in this billing account, replacing inbound/external values. Enabling this option activates the sender override fields below.

Override Sender City: Sender city used only when Override sender address is enabled.

Override Sender State/Province: Sender state/province used only when Override sender address is enabled.

Override Sender Zip: Sender ZIP/postal code used only when Override sender address is enabled.

Contact Phone: Optional. Phone number used for carrier contact/dispatch if required.

Contact Phone Extension: Optional extension associated with Contact Phone.

Contact Email: Optional email address used for notifications/dispatch contact.

Override billing address: When enabled, overrides billing address details for this client account, replacing inbound/external values.

To enable carrier-specific settings —and before continuing—, press Save.

Next Steps

You can now use this account to ship through Metropolitan Warehouse & Delivery.