When you are printing international shipping labels with an integrated customs form, Endicia Professional can automatically retrieve and enter up to 1000 lines of commodity information. Each line can include Quantity, Description, Value, Country of Origin, and Weight. For more information, see About the Customs Data Map.
Setup and use of the Customs Data Map is optional.
Steps
If you are using more than one profile, verify that you have selected the correct profile: On either the Order Lookup tab or the Batch Print tab, view or select the profile from the Active Profile field.
If your database system does not keep the database connection open, select the Re-open database connection for each address lookup check box.
Normally, for most database systems, you should not select this check box, but if your database system closes the database connections, you should select this check box.
In the Customs Data Map window, select Data Map > New.
The Data Connections Setup wizard starts.
Select your data connection method, such as OLE-DB or ODBC, and click Next.
If you selected OLE-DB, select your data provider—such as Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Text/CSV File, Microsoft SQL Server, or Visual FoxPro—and click Next.
Only in special circumstances, such as under the directions of technical support, select the Show the database connection string check box.
Otherwise, do not select the Show the database connection string check box.
Click OK to finish the wizard.
The Customs Data Map window displays your data source name.
In the Lookup Records area, select the Endicia Professional field that you want to use to match with the field value of your data source.
Because the Order Lookup Data Map is executed before the Customs Data Map, you can match records in the customs data table with either:
In the With the value in the database field list, select the field in the customs data table that contains the reference ID.
When you retrieve shipping addresses, Endicia Professional loads the reference ID into Rubber Stamp 1 and then uses that value to find matching records in the customs data table.
See Also
About Integrated Customs Forms
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