Carrier End-of-Day Manifests for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Carrier end-of-day manifests, a Dynamic Ship feature, let your shipping team generate a single manifest per carrier per day directly from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Hence, the driver picks up every shipment with a single document instead of scanning each package individually. Shipping clerks and warehouse supervisors use this to close out the day’s shipments and hand the driver a clean, carrier-ready manifest before the truck leaves. It replaces a separate end-of-day scanning process with one built directly into the shipping workflow.
At a Glance
- Generate one manifest per carrier per day, based on the shipments you have already posted.
- Select which posted shipments to include, then release and print the manifest report.
- One-scan driver manifests are supported for USPS, Canada Post, and SpeeDee through the carrier API.
- All manifest activity stays inside Business Central, with no separate end-of-day system to run.
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Key Capabilities
Per-carrier, per-day manifests. Build a manifest scoped to one location and one carrier, pulling in every posted shipment that matches, so the driver receives a single accurate document for that carrier’s pickup.
License plate-based selection. The manifest draws from the license plates created during packing, so the shipments listed on the manifest match what was actually packed and shipped.
Carrier API manifesting. For carriers that support it, Dynamic Ship queries the carrier directly to generate the manifest, rather than relying only on an internal Business Central report.
Same-day cutoff enforcement. A manifest can only include shipments posted that day, which keeps stale shipments from carrying over and causing carrier processing errors.
Manifest report handling control. Choose whether a carrier’s manifest is generated as a system report inside Business Central or through the carrier’s own API, depending on what that carrier supports.
How Carrier End-of-Day Manifests Work in Dynamic Ship
- The shipping team packs and posts shipments throughout the day, each one recorded as a license plate.
- Before the carrier’s pickup deadline, a user creates a new shipment manifest, sets the location code and the shipping agent code for that carrier, and runs Get Shipment Documents.
- Business Central presents the license plates that match the location and carrier for that day. The user selects the ones to include.
- The user releases the manifest, then prints the manifest report, which produces the document the driver uses to pick up the shipments.
Why Dynamic Ship Carrier End-of-Day Manifests Stand Out
Manifesting lives on the same screen as the rest of your shipping workflow. There is no separate manifesting utility to open, no export to another system, and no reconciling of a manifest against shipments recorded elsewhere. The manifest is built directly from the license plates your team already created while packing, so what prints on the manifest matches what actually shipped.
Carriers with API-based manifesting, including USPS, Canada Post, and SpeeDee, allow drivers to receive an entire day’s shipments with a single scan instead of scanning each package. For high-volume shipping desks, that turns a slow end-of-day pickup into a quick handoff.
Who Uses Carrier End-of-Day Manifests
Shipping clerks generate the manifest at the end of a shift, selecting the day’s posted shipments for each carrier and printing the manifest report for the driver. Warehouse and shipping supervisors rely on the same manifest as a check that every shipment scheduled to leave that day was posted and accounted for before the truck arrives, catching any missed or unposted package before it becomes a shipping error.
Frequently Asked Questions
A carrier end-of-day manifest is a single document generated in Dynamic Ship that lists all shipments posted for a specific carrier and location on a given day. The driver uses it to pick up multiple shipments at once instead of scanning each package individually. Some carriers, including USPS, Canada Post, and SpeeDee, support one-scan processing of the whole manifest through their API.
No. A carrier manifest can include only shipments posted on the same day it is generated, and it must be created before the carrier’s pickup deadline. If a shipment was not manifested before pickup, you create a new, unprinted manifest to mark it complete so the system does not include it on a future manifest.
No. The manifest is a separate, summary document covering all of a carrier’s shipments for the day. Each package still carries its own carrier shipping label, generated when the shipment was packed and posted. The manifest gives the driver a single document to process all day’s pickups at once.