Shipping Cost Wizard

The Shipping Cost policy is used to specify default shipping charges for each available mailing option.

As with the circulation map, the order of the map lines is important. The shipping cost map is read by SirsiDynix Symphony from the bottom up, where the list of shipping costs are evaluated against the lowest lines in the map first. See Policy Operations for Map Policies.

From the List Policies window, you can create, display, modify, copy, or remove the Shipping Cost policies. Click Close to exit the wizard.

Creating a Shipping Cost Policy

To create a Shipping Cost policy

In the List Policies window, click Create.

Type a policy Name.

Type a policy Description.

Select a User Profile from the drop-down list.

Select a Mail Service from the drop-down list.

Select a Library or select All from the drop-down list.

Click Add.

Type the Cost for this Shipping Cost policy.

Select or clear the Display check box.

Add other Shipping Cost policies to this policy, if needed, and click Add.

Click Save.

Attributes

The Shipping Cost policy displays the following attributes.

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Name

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Description

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User Profile

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Mail Service

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Library

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Cost

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Display

Name

This attribute represents a specific cost. This name is ten characters or less, and may not include spaces or punctuation, except for dash (-), underscore (_), and dollar sign ($). Additionally, the pipe character (|) may not be used.

Description

This attribute provides more information about the policy and its use by the library. The description may be up to 60 characters in length. Although the Description attribute may contain spaces and punctuation, the pipe character (|) cannot be used.

User Profile

This attribute identifies the group of users to whom the item will be shipped.

Mail Service

This attribute identifies the Mail Service policy name of the type of mail service that will be used to ship the item.

Library

This attribute identifies the Library policy name of the library associated with the item to be shipped.

Cost

This attribute indicates the shipping cost. You can have more than one Cost defined per policy. For example, you may opt to charge an additional fee for insurance. This can be set on a separate line in the policy and defined as “Insurance.”

Display

This attribute indicates whether or not the shipping costs will display in the Mail Item wizard and in the e–Library. Select or clear the check box. You can set this flag for each defined cost for the policy.