🗣️ Roles: Admin, Partner Admin

Overview

After integrating with FourKites, Alvys will send location updates based on the schedule you have selected for each customer. This integration helps you maintain visibility with your trading partners by automatically sharing load information, location coordinates, delivery status, and delivery times.

What Data Gets Shared

The following information is sent to FourKites: Alvys Customer ID used by FourKites to identify which customer this load information is shared with, Load Order number submitted to FourKites as the billOfLading value, Load PO number submitted to FourKites as the loadIdentifier value, last known location coordinates and city/state/country, delivery status indicated as true or false, and delivery time from the empty time at the last location.

Set Up the Integration

You'll need to reach out to [email protected] and request basic authentication credentials from them. Once you have the credentials, navigate to EDI & Visibility in Alvys. You need an Admin or Partner Admin role to access this page.

Select the Subsidiary you want to set this integration up for and click on the pencil icon.

Enter the credentials that were given to you by FourKites, select the subsidiaries it will be used with, and click Save.

Activate Data Sharing for a Customer

Open a customer profile in Alvys from any load where one has been set or from your companies list. The customer in Alvys needs to be linked to the customer in FourKites via the Alvys Customer ID.

You can obtain the Alvys Customer ID from the hyperlink of the Customer profile. For example, in the URL https://app.alvys.com/#/companies/affa5b56ceaeb45dc44z9af3cf855e8c6c12b/edit, the Alvys Customer ID is affa5b56ceaeb45dc44z9af3cf855e8c6c12b.

Link Customers

You can link the Alvys customer to FourKites in one of two ways. You can provide the Alvys Customer ID to the FourKites contact who provided the integration credentials, or you can connect the Alvys customer ID to the FourKites customer directly here following instructions here.

After navigating to your customer's page in FourKites, add the Alvys Customer ID in the Customer Bill-to codes and select Add.

Configure Sharing Preferences

On the right side of the customer profile screen in Alvys, you'll see the FourKites banner under integration settings. Click on it to open sharing preferences.

Make necessary adjustments to your Sharing Preferences and click Save. Here's what each option does:

Dispatched or Covered status will only consider sending updates if the load is in Dispatched or Covered status and it's 2 hours or less before the scheduled pickup.

Dispatched status and 1st stop is marked as Arrived will only start sending updates if there is an arrival time at the first stop.

Load In Transit will send updates for loads that have an in transit status.

Load Delivered will send updates for loads that have a delivered status and needs to be activated to inform FourKites when a load has been delivered.

ELD will parse information obtained from ELD sources you have integrated with FourKites.

Outside Tracking Check Call means if you have third party tracking that supports updating stop status events, these can be submitted as location updates.

Location from the Driver App means if the driver assigned to a trip is using the Alvys Driver Companion app, you can select to share it.

Location from Other Tracking Services includes location received from other Tracking Service Providers like Macropoint, FourKites tracking, TruckerTools, or P44.

This will activate sharing via FourKites for loads where this customer has been assigned according to your preferences.

Manage Updates per Load

You can individually pause or unpause data sharing for a specific load from within the load itself. Auto-updates are turned on by default for loads where customers have data sharing enabled.