Back Office -> Settings and Management -> Document Server
Front Office -> User Data -> Document Server (not for all Cargo Offices)
About Cargo Office Document Servers
Cargo Office stores all attached documents on special cloud servers.
Cargo Office servers are clustered servers to ensure the highest level of safety.
Cargo Office servers are located in different data centers.
Description
Currently Cargo Office stores three types of documents: attachments, invoices and signatures.
Click specific button for your requested type of documents.
Type the name of document your searching for and hit the search button.
The amount of documents currently stored on your document server.
The file name of your stored document.
When clicking a file name, that specific document is displayed in a new window or local application.
The file size of your stored document.
The upload date of your stored document.
How to upload your documents
1. Manually
Most booking forms have an upload button for adding multiple documents per shipment .
If you miss this upload function, contact Cargo Office programmers by using your Report System.
2. Through FTP
If you have FTP access, you can store your documents in the designed ftp-folders.
To connect specific documents with specific orders, ask Cargo Office programmers how to do this by using your Report System.
FTP management system can be found at: Back Office -> Settings and Management -> FTP User Management
If you do not have FTP-access, but want it, ask Cargo Office programmers.
3. Through partners
Cargo Office has multiple partners with great knowledge of document (upload) technology.
Check these partners and ask them (or Cargo Office programmers) for available options.
Please note
To store documents you need a subscription for the document server.
This is a monthly fee added to your current Cargo Office related fees.
Every Cargo Office Document Server Subscription comes with 1 Gb free data storage.
With the passage of every next gigabyte Cargo Office charges 10 euro extra.
At 90% of this limit Cargo Office sends a message to known administrator address.
Cargo Office programmers are able to create automatic clean-up procedures of documents after a requested amount of days. If interested use Report System to send Cargo Office Programmers a request.
There are options available to zip data after a certain amount of months and to make it available elsewhere. If interested use Report System to send Cargo Office Programmers a request.
Hosting documents on your own server
The principe remains te same, we provide your customers with a link to the document at the bottom of the Booking Details.A customer only sees the documents of their shipments.
To connect the documents on your server with your shipments on CargoOffice, you have to provide us with a link (FTP, HTTP or HTTPS, anything will do).
Please note it is important that the document are viewable on your server for all customers.
All documents need to have a proper name so it can be connected to the correct shipment. This means the name has to start with the shipmentID.
To get started with showing the links in the Booking details you can provide us with a example link via Bug Tracking, so we can inspect the link.
For implementing the link to the Booking details and connected consultancy, we'll charge production hours.
In case the link doesn't work and the problem is connected with hosting of the documents on your side, we'll charge production hours as well when you've asked us to check out what was wrong.