Third Party Shipping That Automates Customer Freight Billing
MetaShip simplifies third party shipping by assigning carrier charges directly to your customer’s account, helping you eliminate manual billing while keeping every shipment inside Business Central.
Stop Paying Freight That Belongs To Your Customers
When your customers ship using their own carrier accounts, your team shouldn’t need manual workarounds. MetaShip’s third party shipping bills freight directly to their account—inside Business Central.
MetaShip routes carrier billing directly to your customer’s account, so your business no longer absorbs freight costs meant for freight-collect customers.
Eliminate the credit notes, reimbursement tracking and billing corrections by automating third-party carrier billing directly inside the shipment workflow.
MetaShip ensures shipments bill correctly at the carrier level, reducing invoice disputes, duplicate freight charges and causing delays in customer reconciliation.
MetaShip adds Third-party carrier billing directly inside BC, removing the need for carrier portals, spreadsheets, and manual shipping workarounds.
Built for Businesses Using
Third-Party Carrier Billing
Six Scenarios Where Third Party Shipping Outshines Exceptionally
Retail customers often want shipping billed to their own UPS or FedEx accounts. MetaShip handles it directly inside Business Central.
Distributors using freight-collect shipping can bill freight directly to the customer without any manual adjustments or credit notes.
Freight billing software allows 3PL providers to ship order using different customer carrier accounts on every order without changing systems.
Marketplace and drop-ship programs often require shipping billed to the brand’s carrier account- MetaShip helps automate this entire process.
Some customers pay freight, some don’t. Both billing modes coexist in the same BC environment — zero reconfiguration needed.
Third party shipping in Business Central allows large enterprises to centralized carrier accounts to automate customer freight billing across all applicable shipments.
Three Steps
Fully Automated and Connected
No separate workflows or carrier portals. MetaShip handles third-party carrier billing directly inside the Business Central sales order process.
Open the sales order, navigate to shipping and billing, and turn on the Third Party Shipping option for that shipment.
Sales OrderOnce you add the billing type, carrier account number, country code, and postal code, MetaShip stores it and applies the details automatically.
4 Required FieldsGenerate the API shipment as usual. MetaShip passes the customer billing details directly to the carrier, so freight charges are billed to their account automatically.
API Shipment. Auto BillingTrusted Carriers, Connected to Business Central
Three Areas Of Control
Manage customer-paid freight directly inside your existing BC shipping workflow- no carrier portals, spreadsheets, or disconnected systems required.
Enable Third-Party Billing Per Order Instantly
Turn on third-party shipping for any sales order without changing your existing carrier setup, warehouse workflow, or billing process across other shipments.
- Available directly on every sales order screen
- Can be updated before API shipment creation
- Standard and Third-Party billing run together
Customer Billing Passed to Carriers Automatically
MetaShip sends third-party billing details directly to the carrier API during shipment creation- no portal logins, manual billing updates or duplicate entry required.
- Customer carrier details passed automatically
- Works with supported carriers like USP, FedEx and more
- Tracking and shipment process without changes to workflow
Billing fields — sent to carrier API
Support Every Customer Billing Scenario
MetaShip allows standard, prepaid, collect, and third-party shipping billing to run together inside the Business Central without any additional configuration.
- Mix standard and third-party billing across orders
- Support prepaid, collect, and customer-pain shipments
- No separate workflows or billing systems required
Built by a Microsoft Partner
Trusted Globally
MetaOption is a certified Microsoft ISV partner with 15+ years of Business Central expertise. MetaShip also available on Microsoft Appsource
“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.”
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No external database, no data exports, no third-party cloud dependency.
Trusted Carriers, Connected to Business Central
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