FastLabel All the calls centering around FastLabel live in here.

FastLabel is the Fastway Electronic Labelling System. This API allows you to interact with it programatically. The system is made up of a few objects:

• Manifest - This is a logical group of consignments. Typically, a manifest is used to collect all the consignments for a given day and then closed at the end of the day (which triggers the printing of the Pickup labels for the courier to scan).
• Consignment - This is a group of items all heading to the same destination address. The consignment contains all the address information, contact information and special delivery instruction information.
• Consignment Item - This is an individual item in a consignment. Each item has a weight (in kgs) and an optional Reference #. Each item will be assigned a Fastway Label, and also may incur additional Excess labels depending on its weight and the delivery address.

Also, there is the concept of:

• Account - This refers to the FastLabel account of an entire business.
• User Account - This is a user account associated with the main Account. There can be many users associated with one account. Each user can only see their own consignments (to avoid confusion between users) but can see all manifests. Users do not have their own FastLabel stock as this is taken from the Account. There is always at least one User account per main Account as this is the only means of access.
• Contact - Users have the option of saving predefined delivery details in their account for use later (so they dont have to keep typing them out). These are added to a list of Contacts for that user.
• MultiBusiness - Some people run multiple businesses but may only want one account with Fastway. A MultiBusiness is essentially a different entity that manifests/consignments get created against. It typically has a different address and location to the parent account. When creating a manifest, you have the option of setting a MultiBusiness ID that will create the manifest against that business instead of the parent account.
• Cost Center - A Cost Center is optional and essentially allows you to group consignments. You set up cost centers, and can then create consignments against them. They are typically used for tracking FastLabel usage across departments of a business, eg Legal, Operations and Finance.

Your Fastway API key is only associated with an Account. As such, you will need to call the List Users method and choose a user for any User-specific calls, or calls that require a UserID. If you do not do this, then if your account only has a single user then that user will be used by default, otherwise an error will be thrown.