Overview
To get a basic understanding of how Packages work, please read Packages.
Besides creating packages with exact coordinates or textual addresses, the MotionTools platform also supports creating packages without a known (or valid) destination address or any coordinates.
Either the owning customer or an admin needs to provide a valid address (or coordinates) at a later point in order for the packages initially created without a known destination to be eligible for shipping.
How does this feature work
- Packages with unknown coordinates, invalid textual addresses or lack of both can still get created
- Should the geocoding fail, packages will be flagged with a status ‘Destination needed’ (
destination_needed). Users will be able to filter for these packages with the status and edit those invalid addresses manually via the Packages dashboard.- Permissions: Admins and Customers owning the packages have the ability to update the destination of packages with a status ‘Destination needed’
- Packages that have been updated to have a valid destination address will be pushed automatically to either the ‘Created’ or ‘At Hub’ statuses, depending on the shipment origin. Learn more about Package statuses.
Configuration
This is an opt-in feature that is present in the Customer’s profile details via the dashboard, and is turned off by default. Only Admins have the permissions to enable or disable the toggle.
