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      Creating a booking for Shippers

      A comprehensive guide on creating bookings as a Shipper in Blink, covering setting up carriers, entering collection and delivery addresses, tracking notifications, GST settings, and booking processes for both vehicle transport and general transport.

      Everything you need to know about creating your first booking in Blink!

      Carrier

      You'll need to create your first carrier. To do:

      1. Select 'Add new carrier'
      2. Enter your carriers details; you can choose between Business and Personal. Only Name OR email are mandatory. 
        Shipper create carrier
      3. Next you'll want to set a shipper contact. Again, Only name OR email are mandatory. You can also choose whether to set this contact as the default for this shipper. If so, they'll pre-fill next time you book with this shipper automatically. 
        Shipper carrier contact
      4. You can also choose to input a billing recipient - enter this if you intend to charge a third party for the transport.

      Collection and delivery addresses

      Next up you'll want to enter your locations. To do so:

      1. Select 'Add new location'
      2. Enter your location details; search Google for your address, and input a company name 
        Create collection
      3. Now enter your address contact - it works the same as the shipper contact, however, you can select 'same as shipper contact' if you wish to re-use your initial shipper contact entry: 
        Create collection contact

      4. You can also enter a collection note, and the collection date and time:

        Create collection notes

      Manual Addresses

      You can also enter a manual address if you're unable to find it through Google. To do so:

      1. Search for your address; if you're unable to find it, select 'Can't find your address' from the dropdown:
        Create delivery manual address
      2. Here you can enter your details; only suburb or state are mandatory

      Tracking notifications

      You can also notify third-parties on key booking events. To do so:

      1. Ensure you've entered your shipper, collection and delivery emails correctly. 
      2. You can also add additional emails by selecting 'add additional emails':
        Create tracking notifications
      3. You can also choose to save these settings as a default for this shipper, or to do a one-off and not save. 

      GST

      Selecting if your Service pricing associated with what you're transporting today is Inclusive or Exclusive of GST.

      The default is price excludes GST.

      Vehicle transport bookings

      To book your vehicle transport:

      1. Select the New Booking button in the navigation bar
      2. Input your shipper, collection and delivery, and any tracking notifications you'd like
      3. Make sure that you've got Vehicles selected in your item option
        Create vehicle

      Generic transport bookings

      To book your general transport:

      1. Select the New Booking button in the navigation bar
      2. Input your shipper, collection and delivery, and any tracking notifications you'd like
      3. Make sure that you've got General selected in your item option

      4. Here you can see more generalised data options, including size, width, height, depth and weight.

      Saving your booking data

      You're ready to submit! As a last option, you can elect to save any new data you've entered on your form or not. To do so, make sure the 'Save new booking data' option is selected

      Hit submit, and you're done!