Shipping method DHL

DHL offers the possibility of online postage. This allows you to pay, create, and print postage stamps for your shipment simply and quickly. For more information on this, go to www.dhl.de/onlinefrankierung.
To be able to use these functions in your shop, you have to create a Delivery using DHL delivery method. For orders with this delivery method, create a DHL packing slip. You can generate and pay the shipping postage using this packing slip.
Under Orders >> Shipments >> DHL shipment you can find all orders that were assigned a DHL shipping number.
Under Orders >> Transactions >> DHL online postage, you can find all transactions that you have paid delivery postage online.
To create and pay for DHL postage stamps orders online proceed as follows:
  1. Create a Delivery using DHL delivery method.
  2. Open the details in the Settings tab.
  3. Select the payment method that you would like to use to pay delivery costs with DHL.
  4. Select the respective check boxes for this. The checkbox to confirm the Terms and conditions is a required field.
  5. Enter the values to calculate delivery costs.
  6. Save your entries by clicking Save.
  7. Open the Text tab. Enter a text if desired that the customer sees in the order confirmation e-mail.
  8. Set the delivery method on the General tab to Visible.
  9. After an order has been performed with the delivery method Delivery using DHL, you are alerted via e-mail. (If you have the corresponding option activated in Settings.) Otherwise, you have to regularly search through orders for DHL orders.
  10. Open the Documents tab in the details for DHL orders.
  11. Create a DHL shipping label.
  12. Open the details of the DHL shipping label and enter all necessary data.
  13. Save all entries.
  14. Click Continue to DHL online postage.
  15. Pay the fee with the payment method which you have set in the settings. You receive a confirmation e-mail. During payment, a shopping basket is created for you by DHL that you can use to print the shipping postage.
  16. You are returned to the MBO and the DHL shopping basket is shown.
  17. From this shopping basket, you can print and save the shipping postage.
  18. After a successful test print, begin the postage printing.
  19. The shipping number is shown in the DHL shopping basket and in the list of DHL shipments.
  20. After the shipment is received and registered with DHL, you and your customer are informed by DHL that shipment tracking is possible using the shipping number.
You can use batch actions to create postage stamps for several orders at once. To do so, select the DHL orders in the orders table and activate the respective batch processing command.
Then the DHL shipping labels will be created and shown one after the other. Enter the delivery data for every DHL shipping label. At the end, pay the total amount and print the delivery postage.