| Audience | Logistics provider |
| Task | Managing freight rates, managing master data |
| Application | eCargo Web |
Rating zones are geographic areas used to determine freight rates. Rate cards use rating zones to define areas where a rate is applicable.
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A rating zone can have cities, suburbs, and businesses mapped to it.
Rate cards use rating zones to define what the rate should be from one zone to another.
e.g. You could have a rate card from the zone Auckland South to the zone Wellington with a $20 per m3 rate.
Zone mapping
Zone mapping is the master data used by eCargo to determine which zones the pickup and delivery addresses map to.
Zone mapping data is unique to your business - you can see your existing zones by going to Zone mapping under the Invoices section of eCargo Web.
Tip: To see all zone mappings for a particular type, leave the 'Search text' blank.
Zone mapping types
There are three types of zone that can be set up.
| Zone mapping type | Description |
| Address | Define which suburbs and cities map to which zones. |
| Business | Map a specific business, customer or delivery point to a specific zone. This can be useful for distribution centres where there might be a different rate compared to the rest of the area. |
| Cascade | Cascade one zone to another - if rates can't be found for the zone (e.g. Auckland South), then eCargo will look for a rate in the cascaded zone (e.g. Auckland). This is useful when rates are set at different levels. |
When calculating rates, eCargo will first look for a business zone mapping - if one can't be found, it will look for an address zone mapping, and then a cascaded zone mapping.
Adding a new rating zone
First, search for the relevant zone mapping type in Zone mapping (under the Invoices section of eCargo Web).
You can then add a new zone - this will be different for each of the mapping types.
Select an existing zone, or create a new one. For address zone mappings, all you will need to specify is the city or suburb which maps to the zone.
The 'All' zone
If a large number of zones use the same rate, you can create an 'All' zone which uses the zone name '*'. Once you have set up the * zone and rates for it, you can create zone cascades which cascade the relevant zones to the * zone. The zones that you cascade to the * zone will all have that rate.
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