Fedex - Useful Information

Field requirements: 

Intersoft Intelligent Shipper® Field Name

Carrier Requirement

Destination Email Address

Mandatory when using the FedEx International Connect Plus (FICP) service


Service Enhancements
 - available.
If you would like to use any of the enhancements, please first speak to your FedEx account manager to confirm which of them are available for the services that you would like to be using. 
To utilise this within Intelligent Shipper, you would need to add Enhancement Service Code field to your file / API request, followed by a specific code.

Service Enhancement

Supporting Data Required

Business Rules / Constraints

On Delivery Notification

Receiver email address

N/A

On Estimated Delivery Notification

Receiver email address

On Exception Notification

Receiver email address

On Shipment Notification

Receiver email address

On Tender Notification

Receiver email address

Adult (signature enhancement)

N/A

N/A

Direct (signature enhancement) 

N/A

N/A

Indirect (signature enhancement) 

N/A

N/A

No Signature Required

N/A

N/A

Saturday Delivery

N/A

Shipment date and service must equal a Saturday delivery (e.g. if shipment date is a Thursday and a Next Day service is used, Saturday Delivery enhancement cannot be used as the shipment will arrive on Friday).

Enhanced Transit Liability

N/A

If the enhancement is used with a 
multipiece shipment, the items must 
be assigned to packages by 
populating the packageId field in the 
Packages and Items element of the 
createShipmentRequest.


Multipiece Shipments -
 available.
The service FedEx International Connect Plus (FICP) supports single piece shipments only. All other FedEx services support multi piece shipments.  

Carrier Packaging - available.

The following carrier package type names can be used with FedEx shipments:

  • FEDEX_10KG_BOX
  • FEDEX_25KG_BOX
  • FEDEX_BOX
  • FEDEX_ENVELOPE
  • FEDEX_PAK
  • FEDEX_TUBE
  • YOUR_PACKAGING

To utilise this within Intelligent Shipper, you would need to add Package Type Name field to your file / API request, followed by a specific code.
If package type name is not provided, the package type will default to YOUR_PACKAGING.

Delivery Instructions - not available.

Hazardous Materials - not available.

Incoterms - DDU, DDP, DAP, DAT

Paperless Trade - available.