nShift has developed a weight scale integration in Ship. Using this, you can fetch data from your weight scale and populate the weight and measurements directly in Ship instead of manually entering the values. We are currently supporting weight scales from Cubiscan, but support for other vendors may become available in the future.

 

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• Prerequisites
• Using Weight Scale integration in Ship

Prerequisites

We are currently supporting weight scales from Cubiscan. To use the integration in Ship, your weight scale must meet the following requirements:

• Be connected to the local network. 
• Have an IP / DNS address.
• Newer firmware that allows it to be called as a webserver.
• Must return JSON formatted data.

To verify that the weight scale is online, enter the IP address in a browser. This should return a screen like this:

Please note that the screen may differ according to your weight scale model. 

To see if you can fetch data, enter the address in your browser followed by csMeasureData. E.g.: http://XX.XXX.X.XXX/csMeasureData where the X's are replaced by your weight scale's IP. 

If successful, it will return JSON similar to the example below:

{
   "csMeasureData": {
      "Status": "01",
      "Location": "      ",
      "Package_Count": "00000363",
      "Date_Time": "00000114053024",
      "Length_Value": "",
      "Length_Status": "01",
      "Length_Units": "in",
      "Width_Value": "",
      "Width_Status": "01",
      "Width_Units": "in",
      "Height_Value": "",
      "Height_Status": "01",
      "Height_Units": "in",
      "Weight_Value": "1.95",
      "Weight_Status": "00",
      "Weight_Units": "lb",
      "DimWeight_Value": "",
      "DimWeight_Status": "01",
      "DimWeight_Units": "lb",
      "Factor_Value": "166",
      "Factor_Type": "D",
      "Barcode1": "",
      "Barcode2": "",
      "Measure_CRC": "B0DB"
   }
}

Using weight scale integration in Ship

To use the weight scale integration with Ship, you must configure the weight scale in Drop Zone. The Drop Zone application must be installed on a computer with access to the weight scale URL. 

1. Open Drop Zone and click on the Weight Scale tab.
    
2. Check the box next to Active.
    
3. Select a Vendor and fill in the URL to the weight scale
    
4. Check the connection and click Apply to save the settings.
   
   
    
5. When the communication with Drop Zone has been set up, and the weight scale is active, a weight scale button becomes visible on the goods line in Ship. Click this button to initiate the weighing and automatically fill in the values from the weight scale.