DPD has implemented changes to its label generation to support Brexit. The changes involve extra data validation on the information required for customs.
Here's an overview of the information that DPD will require as mandatory:
- What's already in place
- Collection date (no changes required, Scurri is filling that out)
- Shipment total value (no changes required, Scurri is calculating that based on the sum of the item's value, or if you wanted to specify it explicitly, use order value)
- Recipient Information
- Name, max 35 chars
- Address 1, max 35 chars
- City, max 35 chars
- Country
- What's new
- Sender information
- Tax Identifier max 16 chars
- EORI Number max 16 chars
- Recipient Information
- Phone, max 15 chars
- E-mail, max 50 chars
- Postcode
- EORI number if a business (this field will be available in Scurri soon)
- Item Information
- Description, max 40 chars
- Value
- Quantity
- Weight
- Country of Origin (this will be set to warehouse country if not provided)
- SKU
- Harmonisation Code, max 8 chars
- Package Information
- Package Weight (this will be taken from package weight field, and if not supplied, it will be the sum of the weight of the items associated with that package)
- Incoterm
- Invoice type of DAP or DDP (DT1) (this can be selected in the rules after the changes are live)
- Sender information