BoxInput model is missing Template Name field (or other correlation identifier)

[memotronics]

There is currently no way to correlate a box created with setPackingInformation (BoxInput) to a Box object returned by ListShipmentBoxes. This, in turn, makes it hard/impossible to create a link between a printed label and the physical box that this label needs to go on.

Example:

• Shipment is Small Parcel, it has 4 boxes with mixed SKUs.
• The SKU mix in each box is different, but all 4 boxes have different content.
• The boxes all have the same weight and size, but during packaging, the boxes get marked "A", "B", "C" and "D".
• The box info (content/weights/dims) is entered into our system, along with "A", "B", "C" or "D" to identify to our system what items are in which box
• Weights/Dims and Box Content uploaded via setPackingInformation. NO PLACE TO SEND UP the box-label (A/B/C/D)
• Placement & Transport generated and confirmed
• Call ListShipmentBoxes to get Box/Package IDs
• Call GetLabels with Box/Package IDs

We now have 4 labels but no way of identifying which label (= which PackageID or BoxID) goes to which box ("A", "B", "C" or "D") because SetPackingInformation (more precisely: BoxInput) has no field for such an identifier.

In my view, BoxInput needs a field called "TemplateName", and the value of TemplateName that is passed-in during SetPackingInformation should be the value that appears in the already-existing TemplateName field of the Box objects returned by ListShipmentBoxes.

[happy-bear-x]

+1

[pacton]

+1

[puppsupr]

Hi, Thank you for the feedback. We have heard this feedback and has been communicated to the team. Please note that we do not have an estimated time of when the implementation will be completed, however, as soon as this occurs, we will post an announcement in the [Announcements Section] (https://developer-docs.amazon.com/sp-api/changelog) of our documentation site. You can also review our [Release Notes] (https://developer-docs.amazon.com/sp-api/page/release-notes) regarding all changes made to our APIs and you can subscribe to our [RSS feed] (https://developer-docs.amazon.com/sp-api/changelog.rss) to get notified as soon as there is an update.

[stoyanov-sv]

+1 This is a very serious problem when there are a lot of boxes.