Understanding Scheme
Description
DPs offer logistic services such as air, surface, and heavy and sellers subscribe to these services through the Extension Marketplace. The sellers view the list of services in the extension UI and enable them. These services are known as schemes. The Schemes are unique for every extension. A Scheme consists of weight, volumetric weight, features, and transport type (surface, air).
Types of Scheme
DP’s schemes are divided into two types:
Sellers should provide the necessary credentials or details to activate these schemes. The extension then communicates the enabled schemes back to the platform. A scheme creation requires data on serviceability, TAT, MPS, NDR, and Doorstep QC. Refer to Create a Scheme for the steps.
Standard Schemes
- These are predefined schemes that cover general operational requirements.
- A Standard Scheme refers to the basic/default plan that DPs offer to sellers.
- In this scheme, the scheme-to-account relationship is one-to-many.
- When a seller subscribes to a standard scheme, all related data or capabilities are automatically inherited into that account.
Custom Schemes
- DPs and sellers create schemes according to their business needs. This happens when a seller already has a contract with DP for their unique business needs.
- Large enterprises create private contracts with DPs for customized services.
- In this scheme, the scheme-to-account relationship is one-to-one.
- The extension interface allows the sellers to create a scheme on the Fynd Commerce and automatically create an account behind the scenes by hitting platform APIs.
- Partners can enhance the user experience by validating credentials or fetching data on serviceability and TAT based on the credentials provided by the seller rather than making the seller fill all the scheme API’s data points. This can be done by accessing these data points from their servers through internal APIs.
