Using Weight Scale integration in Ship On-premises

nShift has created a Weight Scale integration for Ship. This allows you to automatically retrieve data from your weight scale and fill in the weight and measurements directly in Ship, instead of having to enter the values manually. 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 On-premises

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"
   }
}

Your Ship On-premises must be version 13.97.1.18 or newer to support weight scale integration.

Follow these steps to set up the integration:

Go to Setup and navigate to the level where you want to configure the weight scale integration. Configure the settings at the Installation level to use with all locations and carriers.
Right-click in the pane to the right and select New > Weight/Scale setup.
In the Weight Scale setup window, select a vendor (Cubiscan) and enter the URL to your weight scale.
Test the connection and click Ok to save your settings. You are now ready to start fetching data from your weight scale.
In Production view, right-click on the goods line and select Initiate weight to fetch data from the weight scale.
After the weighing has been completed, the values from the weight scale will be added to the weight and measurement fields.

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Using weight scale integration in Ship On-premises

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