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Royal Mail Implementation Guide

Introduction

Generate labels, electronic trade documents and special services as well as tracking and manifesting.

Preferences

In order to create a Preference for Royal Mail in the Multi-carrier application please provide the following information to your Technical Account Manager.
It generally takes two days for Royal Mail to get this set up in our system. Once this is set up we will be able to generate the credentials and you can add the preference to your salesforce instance.

  • Your Company Name
  • Posting Location (10 digit number starting with a 9)
  • Receiving Hub (if you have this)
  • OBA Email address

Royal Mail does not have a concept of a test environment. Therefore you will need your production credentials to get started!

Whitelisting

You might need to whitelist the following IP addresses to use this carrier with FTP connection:

  • 54.173.229.200
  • 54.175.230.252
  • 99.80.183.117
  • 99.81.135.32

Service Types

Service Types Value Description
Royal Mail 1st Class bpl_1 - Copy
Royal Mail 2nd Class bpl_2 - Copy
Royal Mail Signed 1st Class bpr_1 - Copy
Royal Mail Signed 2nd Class bpr_2 - Copy
Royal Mail 24 crl_1 - Copy
Royal Mail 48 crl_2 - Copy
Royal Mail 48 (LL) Flat Rate pk_0 - Copy
Royal Mail 24 (Sort) (LL/P) Daily Rate pk_3 - Copy
Royal Mail 48 (Sort) (LL/P) Daily Rate pk_4 - Copy
Royal Mail 24 (P) Flat Rate ppf_1 - Copy
Retail Standard International rits - Copy
Retail Standard UK rsuk - Copy
Special Delivery Guaranteed By 1pm sd_1 - Copy
Special Delivery Guaranteed By 1pm (1000 GBP) sd_2 - Copy
Special Delivery Guaranteed By 1pm (2500 GBP) sd_3 - Copy
Special Delivery Guaranteed By 9am sd4 - Copy
Special Delivery Guaranteed By 9am (1000 GBP) sd_5 - Copy
Special Delivery Guaranteed By 9am (2500 GBP) sd_6 - Copy
Royal Mail 1st Class stl1 - Copy
Royal Mail 2nd Class stl2 - Copy
Royal Mail Tracked 24 High Volume No Sig tpmn - Copy
Royal Mail Tracked 24 High Volume Signed tpms - Copy
Royal Mail Tracked 48 HV No Signature tpln - Copy
Royal Mail Tracked 48 HV Signed tpls - Copy
Royal Mail Tracked 24 No Signature tpnn - Copy
Royal Mail Tracked 24 Signature tpsn - Copy
Royal Mail Tracked 48 Signature tpss - Copy
Royal Mail Tracked 48 No Signatures tpsn - Copy
Royal Mail Tracked 24 Letterbox Signature trsn - Copy
Royal Mail Tracked Returns 24 tsn - Copy
Royal Mail Tracked Returns 48 tss - Copy
International Business Parcels Zone Sort Priority ie_1 - Copy
International Business Mail Large Letter Zone Sort Priority ig_1 - Copy
International Business Parcels Tracked mp_1 - Copy
International Business Parcels Tracked Extra Comp Zone Sort mp_4 - Copy
International Business Parcels Signed mp_5 - Copy
International Business Parcels Tracked & Signed mta - Copy
International Business Parcels Tracked & Signed mtas - Copy
International Business Mail Tracked & Signed mtc - Copy
International Business Parcels Tracked & Signed Country Priced mte - Copy
International Business Mail Tracked mti - Copy
International Business Mail Signed mtm - Copy
International Standard On Account ola - Copy
International Economy On Account ols - Copy
International Signed On Account osa - Copy
International Tracked On Account ota - Copy
International Tracked On Account Extra Comp otb - Copy
International Tracked & Signed On Account otc - Copy
International Tracked & Signed On Account Extra Comp otd - Copy
International Business Mail Mixed Zone Sort Priority oz_1 - Copy
International Business Parcels Max Sort Priority ps_9 - Copy
International Business Parcels Zero Sort Priority we_1 - Copy
Domestic Royal Mail 24 dom_24 - Copy
Domestic Royal Mail 48 dom_48 - Copy
Domestic Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed dom_special_delivery_guaranteed - Copy
Domestic Royal Mail Tracked 24 dom_tracked_24 - Copy
Domestic Royal Mail Tracked 48 dom_tracked_48 - Copy
Domestic Standard Tariff Letters 1st Class dom_standard_tariff_letters_1_class - Copy
Domestic Standard Tariff Letters 2nd Class dom_standard_tariff_letters_2_class - Copy
Special Delivery Guaranteed - £750 special_delivery_guaranteed_750 - Copy
Special Delivery Guaranteed - £1000 special_delivery_guaranteed_1000 - Copy
Special Delivery Guaranteed - £2550 special_delivery_guaranteed_2550 - Copy
Special Delivery Guaranteed AG - £750 special_delivery_guaranteed_AG_750 - Copy
Special Delivery Guaranteed AG - £1000 special_delivery_guaranteed_AG_1000 - Copy
Special Delivery Guaranteed AG - £2500 special_delivery_guaranteed_AG_2500 - Copy
Special Delivery Guaranteed ID - £750 special_delivery_guaranteed_ID_750 - Copy
Special Delivery Guaranteed ID - £1000 special_delivery_guaranteed_ID_1000 - Copy
Special Delivery Guaranteed ID - £2500 special_delivery_guaranteed_ID_2500 - Copy
Royal Mail 24 Standard/ Signed For (Large Letters) crl1_large_letter - Copy
Royal Mail 48 Standard/ Signed For (Large Letters) crl2_large_letter - Copy
Royal Mail 24 - Flat Rate Service (Large Letter) fs1_large_letter - Copy
Royal Mail 48 - Flat Rate Service (Large Letter) fs2_large_letter - Copy
Royal Mail 24 - Sort8 - Daily Rate Service (Large Letter) pk3_large_letter - Copy
Royal Mail 48 - Sort8 - Daily Rate Service (Large Letter) pk4_large_letter - Copy
Royal Mail 24 - Presorted (Large Letter) fs7_large_letter - Copy
Royal Mail 48 - Presorted (Large Letter) fs8_large_letter - Copy
Royal Mail 48- Flat Rate Service (Large Letter) pk0_large_letter - Copy
Royal Mail 24 - Flat Rate Service (Large Letter) pk9_large_letter - Copy
Royal Mail 48 - Presoted - Annual Flat Rate Service (Large Letter) pkk_large_letter - Copy
Royal Mail 24 - Presoted - Annual Flat Rate Service (Large Letter) pkm_large_letter - Copy
Royal Mail 24 - Annual Flat Rate Service (Large Letter) pps_large_letter - Copy
Royal Mail 48 - Annual Flat Rate Service (Large Letter) ppt_large_letter - Copy
Royal Mail 24 - Daily Rate Service - Standard/Signed For (Large Letter) rm1_large_letter - Copy
Royal Mail 48 - Daily Rate Service - Standard/Signed For (Large Letter) rm3_large_letter - Copy
Royal Mail 24 - Sort8 - Annual Flat Rate Service (Large Letter) rm7_large_letter - Copy
Royal Mail 48 - Sort8 - Annual Flat Rate Service (Large Letter) rm9_large_letter - Copy
1st Class Account Mail (Letter) stl1_letter - Copy
1st Class Account Mail (Large Letter) stl1_large_letter - Copy
2nd Class Account Mail (Letter) stl2_letter - Copy
2nd Class Account Mail (Large Letter) stl2_large_letter - Copy
Royal Mail 1st Class (Letter) bpl1_letter - Copy
Royal Mail 1st Class (Large Letter) bpl1_large_letter - Copy
Royal Mail 2nd Class (Letter) bpl2_letter - Copy
Royal Mail 2nd Class (Large Letter) bpl2_large_letter - Copy
Royal Mail 1st Class Signed For (Letter) bpr1_letter - Copy
Royal Mail 1st Class Signed For (Large Letter) bpr1_large_letter - Copy
Royal Mail 2nd Class Signed For (Letter) bpr2_letter - Copy
Royal Mail 2nd Class Signed For (Large Letter) bpr2_large_letter - Copy
HM Forces Mail bf1 - Copy
HM Forces Signed For bf2 - Copy
HM Forces Special Delivery (£500) bf7 - Copy
HM Forces Special Delivery (£1000) bf8 - Copy
HM Forces Special Delivery (£2500) bf9 - Copy

Packaging Types

Packaging Types Value
Your Packaging your_packaging Copy

Label Types

The available label formats can be usually grouped into two types: thermal and non-thermal labels.

Label Types Value
PDF PDF Copy
PNG PNG Copy
ZPL ZPL Copy

Manifesting

Royal Mail automatically manifests your shipments at the end of the day but if you need to manifest multiple times throughout the day then you can utilize the method below to do it.

Once you are ready to manifest your shipments go to your Royal Mail Shipping Preference, and then click on the Manifest button.

Choose the date you want to manifest for and click the Get Manifest History button.

Then you can click on the Get Manifest button to generate the manifest, and print it out.

Common Questions

In this section you can find our most commonly asked questions regarding this carrier. If you have a question not listed here please contact us.

How can the CN22/CN23 document be produced?

When creating an international shipment the CN22/CN23 document will automatically be added to the shipping label for you. An example is below:

How can I ship to BFPO locations?

To ship to a BFPO (British Forces Post Office) location you need to use one of the BF services listed under the service types and will need to include product details to produce customs documentation.

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