1. DHL EasyShip to WorldShip Commodity Transfer

2. DHL EasyShip Commodity Export
Launch DHL EasyShip
Go to “Tools”
Select “Launch Export Utility”
Select “Create a new Export Definition”
Click “Next”

3. DHL EasyShip Commodity Export
Select “Export Commodity Inventory”
Click “Next”

4. DHL EasyShip Commodity Export
The following are selected as defaults:
Delimited
Comma as the delimiter
Include Field Names on First Row
“ as the Text Qualifier
Click “Next”

5. DHL EasyShip Commodity Export
Select all fields for export by clicking the “>>” button
Click “Next”

6. DHL EasyShip Commodity Export
Enter c:\dhlcommodity under “Save Export Definition to file”
Click “Next”

7. DHL EasyShip Commodity Export
Uncheck any options that are checked for frequency/time of export
Enter c:\DHLCommodity.csv as the output file name.
The text of the file name must be “DHLCommodity.csv” or the import will not work
Click “Finish”

8. DHL EasyShip Commodity Export
Click “Exit”. The Export is complete

9. DHL EasyShip Commodity Export
Open DHLCommodity.csv file created from the EasyShip commodity export using ‘Notepad’ or ‘Wordpad’.
Do not use Excel for editing the file. It modifies the formatting of the file
Remove spaces and # from the first rows of the following column names (in the first row)

10. DHL EasyShip Commodity Export
Note (No Action Required): ‘Unit of Measure’ is not exported from EasyShip. WorldShip will default the Unit of Measure to ‘Each’.
Note (No Action Required): ‘Unit Price’ is not exported from EasyShip. WorldShip will import the ‘Total Value’ into the Unit Price.
If importing SED information:
In the Schedule B field, remove the periods. For example ‘ ’ should be modified to ‘ ’
The Unit of Measure for SED information will be imported as ‘Number’
Any SED commodities that have a license with an expiration date will fail due to date formatting issues.
Commodities can be modified after import if necessary.
Save the changes and file to x:\UPS\WSTD\ImpExp\Invalid then exit Notepad or Wordpad

11. DHL EasyShip Commodity Export
Download and save “DHLCommodity.dat”, InvImp.bin, and InvExp.bin to x:\UPS\WSTD\ImpExp\Commod
Download and save the “schema.ini” file to x:\UPS\WSTD\ImpExp\Invalid
Launch WorldShip
Select "Import/Export Data"
Select “Batch Import“
Highlight “DHLCommodity”
Select “Next”

12. DHL EasyShip Commodity Export
Click "Next" on the Import/Export preview
Click “Save” when the import is complete. Commodities can now be selected in WorldShip using the Commodity Editor
Any invalid records are saved to “C:\UPS\WSTD\ImpExp\ Invalid\ComInv.csv”; records can be modified in this file and re-imported using the ‘Default Import Invalid Records’ map type Commodity