Residential vs Commercial Shipping in Infoplus

Sometimes orders default to Commercial even if they are meant to be residential, causing unexpected charges after delivery.

There are occasions in which Infoplus users could see Infoplus automatically change their FedEx Ground shipping default to Commercial Ground instead of Home Delivery (residential) for FedEx shipments.

After doing some research on why this might occur, we discovered a few things that help explain this behavior: 

1. Infoplus checks the order's shipping address via the carrier's information to determine if the address is residential or commercial. If the carrier comes back with an unknown address, Infoplus will default to commercial shipping. 
2. If later in the shipping process it becomes clear the address is residential, a price adjustment can be added to the shipper for the difference in cost of Residential Delivery via the parcel reconciliation process. 

What Can I Do About This?

We understand this can be very frustrating for Infoplus users. A good way to check to see if an address validation occurred is to go to the order and check to see if this tag is displayed: Tag: ipsys-parcel-address-type-check-failed.

If you see this tag on any active orders, Infoplus received an address validation error from the carrier, which means it defaulted to Commercial Delivery (even if it is actually a Residential Delivery). 

You can override this behavior in Infoplus so it does not assume any error returns from carrier default to Commercial. Here's how: 

1. Navigate to your Order Property Override table
2. Click 'Create New' 
3. Select Parcel > Unverified Addresses > Submit As Residential to True in the Order Property Field
4. In the Override Value Field, select True
   1. Here is an explanation of the behavior you can expect depending on whether you choose True or False in the Override Value Field:
      
      
      
5. Click Save

This table lets users override the default behavior (Default Value of Commercial). You can set the override at the client, client/LOB, or client/LOB/Order Source level.