This article demonstrates the steps required to ship orders with Royal Mail.

The key difference between shipping orders with other carriers and and Royal Mail is that every order must be included in a packing list or manifest for Royal Mail to physically collect it. With Carriyo, creating and shipping manifests is a straightforward process.

The primary requirement is to have a Royal Mail account set up in advance. To learn how to proceed with the setup, read this article.

Ship orders with Royal Mail

1. Navigate to Shipping > Shipments on the Carriyo Dashboard. The first step is to create and book shipments with Royal Mail as the carrier. To see a detailed guide on how to create shipments, see this article.

2. Once shipments are booked, navigate to Shipping > Manifests. Make sure that the Pickup location is the same for all shipments in a manifest as it is required so. Create a manifest by clicking on the add icon on the top right corner of the page.

On the create manifest page, name the manifest as desired. Assign the carrier account and pickup location. Select All Merchants if there are multiple merchants. Additionally, the pickup schedule can also be set.

Click on the add icon to add shipments to the packing list.

3. Select all required shipments. Click on the checkbox on the table header to select all shipments. You can change the number of rows per page by clicking on the number as highlighted below. Click on the Add Shipments button to add these shipments to the packing list.

4. Click on Save once all shipments are added.

5. Go back to the Manifests page and change the status of this specific packing list to Ready to Ship.

6. Once all these steps are done, the shipments can be tracked from the Shipments page. Shipments that are part of a manifest will be displayed as such with the manifest ID below it.