What Are Sources?

Sources represent fulfillment centers or sources of data in Flxpoint.

How Are Sources Used?

• Checking pricing, quantity, and status of products
• Importing product data
• Sending fulfillment requests/fulfillment orders
• Receiving shipment/tracking information
• Receiving invoices

Associating a Source to a Vendor

Associating a source to a vendor is generally for:

• Categorizing sources that represent multiple warehouses
• Providing this source access to a Vendor Portal

Integrations

Every source can have integrations to connect various operations. Some of the most common operations are :

• Get Inventory [Primary]: receives source inventory data, pricing, quantity, and status from a source
• Get Inventory [Secondary]: receives source inventory pricing, quantity, and status from a source
• Send Fulfillment requests/Fulfillment orders: Submits fulfillment requests/fulfillment orders (FRs/FOs) to a source
• Get Shipments: Receives Shipments / Tracking Information from a source
• Get Source Invoices: Receives Invoices from a source

For more information about configuring Integrations, please see Integrating a Source.

Location

To leverage any location-based order routing solutions (such as Rate Shopping), it's recommended to add an "Address" for each Source.

Usually Postal Code, State Code, and Country Code are the only required fields

Shipping Methods

Shipping methods represent eligible shipping options a source has, and allows you to attach metadata the source will recognize (such as a unique shipping code like "UPSG" for UPS Ground).

For more information about configuring source shipping methods, see Source Shipping Methods.

For information on how these shipping methods are chosen, see Shipping Policies.

FR/FO Strategies

Each source has configurations to specify how fulfillment requests/fulfillment orders are treated, such as enabling or disabling auto processing and defining strategies for FR/FO numbers.

For more information, see Fulfillment requests/Fulfillment orders strategies

Settings

Updating The Settings While Interacting With Toggles

You can define the source settings by managing the toggles for the respective fields defined below

May Contain Firearms: Turning this on will enable the collection of FFL information for FR/FOs marked as containing a firearm

Commit Stock: Deduct the available inventory quantity within Flxpoint after an order is imported FR/FO is generated

Rate Shopping: By default Rate Shopping is disabled. You can enable it by setting the toggle to YES.

Allow Backorders: Enabling backorders will let you generate order for the product even if the inventory is marked as "0" or "Out OF Stock" on your channel.

There are two methods to do this:

• Via mapping template or mapping rules (Get Inventory-Primary or Get Inventory-Secondary)
• Via source settings

Allowing Backorders Via Mapping Rules and Template

With the help of mapping rules and templates you can individually pick out the product from channel listing to be allowed for backorder settings.

The Rule can be accessed at the time of source integration and can be can also be updated via mapping template.

Via Source Settings

You can set the rule for complete product listing by turning the toggle status to YES for allowing the backorders with the integrated source.

CANCEL UNACKNOWLEDGED ITEMS: If a single acknowledgement is found for a FR, any items that are not accounted for in that acknowledgement will be marked as canceled.

SEND FR ONLY TO VENDOR PORTAL: Enabling this feature will cause FR's for this source to be directly processed to the vendor portal. If you have an active send FR integration at the time you enable this setting the integration will be deleted.

VENDOR PORTAL INVOICE UPLOAD: Turning this on will enable the "Invoice Upload“ function within the Vendor Portal, which allows Vendors to associate invoices to fulfillment requests by uploading a CSV/XSLX file.

NOTE: By enabling Invoice Upload, your existing "Get Invoices" integration will be overwritten and scheduled jobs will be disabled.

VENDOR PORTAL SHIPMENT UPLOAD: Turning this on will enable the "Shipment Upload“ function within the Vendor Portal, which allows Vendors to associate shipment details to fulfillment requests by uploading a CSV/XSLX file.

NOTE: By enabling Shipment Upload, your existing "Get Shipments" integration will be overwritten and scheduled jobs will be disabled.

VENDOR PORTAL INVENTORY UPLOAD: Turning this on will enable the "Inventory Upload“ function within the Vendor Portal, which allows Vendors to create new inventory products or update existing ones, by manually uploading a CSV/XSLX file.

NOTE: By enabling Inventory Upload, your existing "Get Inventory - Primary" integration will be overwritten and scheduled jobs will be disabled.