Add a miscellaneous shipper

Article • 7/21/2025 • 2 min read

A shipper is a record of items in a shipment. In certain scenarios, you may ,to ship goods without a sales order when vendors or customers request product samples. In such cases, you must add a miscellaneous shipper.

Since miscellaneous shippers are added without a sales order, items shipped using a miscellaneous shipper will not affect inventory levels or post a transaction to the general ledger.

To add a miscellaneous shipper

  1. Open the Shipping (SHIP) page.

    1. Select Production Management > Production Transactions > Shipping > Shipping.

      Or

    2. Search for SHIP or Shipping in the Navigation box and then select Shipping.

      Shipping (SHIP) page appears.

  2. Select the shipper options:

    You cannot select the account number of an inactive customer. If you do so, the error message “Cannot Create Shipper for an INACTIVE Customer.” is displayed.

    1. On the Toolbar, click New.

    2. Click the Customer Number lookup reference.

      The Lookup For Customer Number window appears.

    3. Highlight a row and click Select.

    4. Click the Ship-To Address Key lookup reference.

      The Lookup For Ship-To Address Key window appears.

    5. Highlight a row and click Select.

  3. If you are not shipping the items on the current date, in the Ship Date field, type the shipping date.

  4. Set information about the shipper:

    1. In the Ship Weight field, type the weight shipped.

    2. In the No Of Boxes field, enter the number of boxes being shipped.

    3. In the Collected By and Entry By fields, type the initals of the user preparing the items for shipment and of the user making the entry respectively.

    4. From the Ship Via list, select the carrier used to ship the item.

      If you use United Parcel Service as your shipping carrier, you can configure Made2Manage to share shipping information with the UPS OnLine WorldShip software. For more information, see the “UPS OnLine WorldShip Installation and Setup Guide”.

    5. From the FOB Point list, select the freight on board point.

      From the FOB Point list, click Edit FOB Point to either add a new Freight On Board point or modify the value.

    6. In the Freight Charge and Bill-Of-Lading fields, type the freight charge and the bill of lading number respectively.

  5. On the Toolbar, click Save to save the shipper details.

    The next step is to add the items to ship.

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