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Allow Customers to Access Shipping Information from Your Website

Transparent Links connects ABF’s website functions directly to your site or computer system, allowing you to provide your customers, shipping partners, or employees with a convenient, self-service means of obtaining shipping information right on your website or intranet no phone calls, no navigating to another site, no waiting.

There are 7 functions available with Transparent Links:

  • Create a Bill of Lading
  • Request a Pickup
  • Bill of Lading/Pickup Combination
  • Retrieve a Document
  • Get a Rate Quotation
  • Track a Shipment 
  • Get a Transit Time

Eliminating the need for multiple telephone calls or navigating to multiple sites mean Transparent Links frees your employees to focus on other ways to serve customers and improve productivity. Plus, your customers can seamlessly complete transactions without ever leaving your site. Transparent Links also work for accounts wanting to incorporate functionality into back office systems (warehouse/order management systems, corporate intranets, etc.).

 

Transparent Direct Links is available only to registered users of ABF.com. Register now and begin using Transparent Links to keep your customers on your website and keep your employees free to focus on other important tasks. 

 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation message with step-by-step instructions for setting up Transparent Links for your company. Once you do, your customers will begin using Transparent Links to track shipments, create bills of lading, schedule pickups, obtain rate quotes, and determine transit time – all without leaving your website.

Registration is free and set up is easily accomplished.

Wonder how it works?  Suppose a customer wants to track the shipment of merchandise purchased on your Web site:

  1. The customer submits a tracking form directly from your Web site. 
  2. The information goes immediately to the ABF database. 
  3. Instantly, the tracking information displays for the customer. An alternate method provides your system the result data via XML to process and present.  
  4. A link on the ABF results page redirects the customer back to your Web site.

It's that simple.

 

Learn more about Transparent Direct Links


 

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