Cleaning Up Your Shippers List: Best Practices for Managing Customers

Keep things organised, efficient, and easy to scale.

Does your shipper list look like this?

If you’re seeing the same business name repeated multiple times - each with a different contact person — you’re likely duplicating effort and making reporting harder than it needs to be.


Each person at the same company has been added as a separate shipper - this can quickly clutter your system.

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Optimise Your Shipper Setup: One Business, Many Contacts

A more efficient way to manage customers is to:


1. Consolidate Into a Single Shipper Entry

Choose one standardised shipper name for each business or dealership - and hide any duplicates.

Consolidate into 1 shipper

Keep just one entry per business to improve clarity and reporting.

2. Add Contacts to That Business When Booking

When creating a new booking, use the Contact field to add the specific person you’re working with. Their details will be saved under that business for future use.

Add Contact to a Business

No need to re-enter details every time - once saved, contacts are always available.


3. Pick from the Contact List Next Time

Next time you create a booking for that shipper, just select the appropriate contact from the list - it’s fast, clean, and keeps your records tidy.

Pick from your Contacts List

Each contact keeps their own name, email, and phone, while being linked to one central shipper.


📦 Why This Works Better

  • ✅ Keeps your system clean and easy to manage

  • 📈 Simplifies reporting and booking history

  • 📤 Supports unified billing per business

  • 👥 Still shows exactly who you're working with on each job


💡 Quick Tip

“Think of the Shipper as the business or organisation, and the Contact as the person you’re dealing with today.”

This structure is easier to scale - and once you start using it, you won’t look back.