Let your customer pay their own carrier.
One toggle inside Business Central. Carrier charges go straight to your customer’s account — not yours.
Stop absorbing freight
that isn’t yours.
When customers have their own carrier accounts, your team shouldn’t need workarounds to honour them inside Business Central.
Freight-collect customers expect to pay their carrier directly — but without the right tooling, you absorb it and chase reimbursement.
Teams end up issuing credit notes or manual adjustments to claw back freight costs. Slow, error-prone, and completely unnecessary.
Customers see freight on your invoice and a separate carrier bill. Disputes and reconciliation delays follow every time.
Standard Business Central can’t pass billing accounts to carriers. Teams fall back to portal logins, spreadsheets, and workarounds.
Built for teams that ship
on someone else’s account.
Six common scenarios where Third Party Shipping pays off immediately.
Large retail customers with negotiated UPS/FedEx rates expect to pay freight themselves. Ship via their account directly from BC.
Freight-collect agreements mean the buyer pays the carrier. MetaShip handles it natively — no credit notes, no manual steps.
Bill carrier charges to each client’s account per shipment. One toggle, per order — no system reconfiguration between clients.
Marketplace programs often require freight billed to the brand’s carrier contract. MetaShip routes it automatically.
Some customers pay freight, some don’t. Both billing modes coexist in the same BC environment — zero reconfiguration needed.
Enterprise buyers that centralise all inbound freight to one carrier account get consistent, automatic billing across every applicable shipment.
Three steps.
That’s all it takes.
No separate module. No carrier portal. Lives right in the sales order.
Open the sales order. Go to Shipping & Billing. Flip Third Party Shipping to ON.
Sales OrderBilling Type, Account Number, Country Code, Postal Code. Done.
4 Fields OnlyCreate the API shipment. MetaShip sends billing details to the carrier. Customer gets the freight invoice. Your cost: $0.
API Shipment · AutoWant to see this inside your Business Central?
We’ll walk through a live third party shipment — no sandbox, no slides.
See it inside Business Central.
Real screens. Real workflow. Exactly what your team sees.
The toggle lives in the Shipping & Billing section of every sales order — no new screen, no separate module.
MetaShip passes billing fields to the carrier API. Tracking number returns as normal. No portal login needed.
The carrier invoices the customer’s account. Your invoice carries zero carrier freight.
Three areas of control.
All inside Business Central. No external tools.
One toggle. Per order. Nothing else changes.
Enable third party billing on any sales order without affecting your carrier setup, packing workflow, or any other order in BC.
- Available on every sales order — no special setup
- Reversible before the API shipment is created
- Standard and third party orders run simultaneously
Four fields. Auto-sent to the carrier.
When you create the API shipment, MetaShip includes the billing fields in the carrier API call automatically. No portal, no manual entry.
- Account number, country, postal code sent automatically
- Tracking number and label returned as normal
- Supports future-dated shipments
Billing fields — sent to carrier API
Standard or third party — per order, any time.
Both billing modes run simultaneously in the same BC environment. Decide per order — no global setting, no admin changes, no system downtime.
- Standard: carrier charges you, you invoice customer with markup
- Third party: carrier bills customer directly — $0 on your invoice
- Mix both freely on the same order book
MetaShip Third Party Shipping is built for high-volume BC environments. No middleware, no IT overhead, no external tools to manage.
Billing fields passed as standard API parameters. Any carrier that supports third party billing in their API is supported.
Third Party Shipping is embedded inside the BC Sales Order — where your team already works. Full BC audit trail included.
Process standard and third party orders simultaneously. Each order is independent — no mode switching, no admin required.
Built by a Microsoft partner.
Trusted globally.
MetaOption is a certified Microsoft ISV partner with 15+ years of Business Central expertise.
“Before MetaShip, we issued manual credit notes every month for freight-collect customers. Now it’s a toggle on the order.”
“We run a 3PL. Every client ships on their own account. MetaShip was the only BC solution that handled this natively. Setup took less than a day.”
“Mixed billing was the feature that sold us. Some customers pay freight, some don’t — both work in the same BC environment now.”
Industries using MetaShip Third Party Shipping
Built and maintained to Microsoft’s BC extension standards.
The official marketplace for Dynamics 365 and BC extensions.
No external database, no data exports, no third-party cloud dependency.
Common questions.
See Third Party Shipping
inside your BC environment.
Book a live MetaShip demo. Real shipment, your BC, no slides.
No sandbox required · Works with your existing BC · Setup in under a day