The Tracking Number Report action provides you with a daily report on all pieces created within the past 24 hours.
This report comes in the form of a CSV or TSV file and is downloaded to your local environment on a daily basis between 12:00 AM and 3:00 AM in your timezone. This report includes some basic information about the pieces, including the recipient address, custom fields, created date, and barcode/tracking number information. You can download an example report here.
Setup
To set up the Tracking Number Report action in Easy Send Automate …
- Click Setup on the homepage.
- Click Add at the top of the Setup page.
You’ll be brought to the Action Settings page.
Website settings
First, select the URL that contains easysenddigital.com. This represents the production endpoint. The other option in this dropdown represents a test environment and should only be used when troubleshooting with our support team.
Then, within the Easy Send Digital web-app, find your integration credentials. Copy and paste your Integration ID into the Username field and your Integration Key into the Password field. You can see instructions on creating or finding your integration credentials here.
Action settings
Make sure the Enable Action checkbox is checked, then select Easy Send Tracking Number Report from the Action dropdown. Once this is selected, you’ll see an additional option appear under the Variables section.
You can choose to add a Description to this action to be able to identify it easier.
Next, select an Output Path. This is the exact location in your local environment where the reports will be saved.
The Postprocess field is an optional field that allows you to upload a VB script file. This script will run after each report is downloaded, allowing you to automate any kind of processing you’d like to execute for each file.
Variables
In the Variables section, select your preferred File Format. You can choose from CSV or TSV.
Once you’re done, click Save, and your action will be created. You are now set up to have the reports automatically downloaded to your local environment each day.
Viewing downloaded reports
Once the action is set up, you’ll see a new report appear in your designated output folder each day. The file name will follow the default naming convention:
trackingnumber.rpt.[created_date:yyyymmddHHmmss]
[created_date:yyyymmddHHmmss] represents the date and time the action was ran in the format of yyyymmddhhmmss.
