Winpac Online
Winpac Online is a web based application which is suitable for use by all Crossflight customers to prepare
shipment documentation. It has a quick to learn and easy to use interface enabling customers to
create shipping documentation very quickly and easily.
Note: to access Winpac Online Crossflight must first issue you with a User Name and Password. You can request these here.
Features
The main features of Winpac Online are:
- Create waybills
- Store all previously used To and From addresses for quick and easy reuse
- Send e-mail shipping alerts to e-mail addresses of your choice
- Manage and use cost centres which will appear on your invoices
- Access to an archive of all your shipments
- Create pro-forma invoices for customs
- Track shipments
- Book collections (automatically or manually as required)
- Share shipping data between a group of users
- Transfer shipping data to Crossflight automatically
Crib Sheet
The Winpac Online Crib Sheet covers the basic process of logging on and creating a waybill. It also provides
a guide to the other Winpac Online Functions.
Requirements
To use Winpac Online on your computer the following requirements need to be met:
- Internet access to the Crossflight Web site
- Internet e-mail address
- document printer (laser, inkjet etc.)
- Current Web Browser (e.g. Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Apple Safari)
- javascript needs to be enabled (for advanced search functions)
- Browser Support/Plugin reader for Adobe Acrobat files (e.g. Adobe Acrobat Reader, ideally V8.1.2)
- javascript needs to be enabled (for automatic document printing)
Winpac Online has been tested on combinations of the following software:
- Operating Systems
- Microsoft
- Windows Vista
- Windows XP SP3
- Windows XP SP2 (recommended)
- Open Source
- Apple
- WWW Browsers
- Microsoft
- IE 7 and all patches from Microsoft Update
- IE 6 and all patches from Microsoft Update
- Mozilla
- Firefox V3 (recommended)
- Firefox V2.0.0.15
- Apple
- Opera
- Adobe Acrobat Readers
- Acrobat Reader V9.0.0 (recommended See also Automatic Printing)
- Acrobat Reader V8.x.x but not V8.0.0
- Acrobat Reader V7.x.x
Note: Acrobat Reader V8.0.0 is not currently supported due to changes in the way that
JavaScript is processed.
Adobe Actobat AutoPrinting
Winpac Online uses an automatic printing facility built into the Adobe Acrobat Reader. In V8.1.1 Adobe added a 'pop-up' box every time
a documents trys to be automatically printed. The box says 'This document is trying to print. Do you want to allow this?'.
With the intoduction of V9.0.0 it is possible to stop this pop-up box appearing for websites that you trust. To do this you
need to change a setting withing Adobe Acrobat Reader V9.0.0 as follows:
- Start Adobe Acrobat Reader V9.0.0
- Select the Preferences option on the Edit menu to display the Prderences window
- Select the Security (Enhanced) Category on the Preferences window
- Tick the Enable Enhanced Security option
- Click on the 'Add Host' button and enter the following hostnames - one at a time
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- winpaconline.crossflight.co.uk
- winpaconline.crossflight.com
- Click on the 'OK' button to close the Preferences window
Other Platforms
Care has been taken to ensure that where ever possible Winpac Online has been developed to
be as interoperable as possible. This means that Winpac Online should work with most if not
all web browsers and PDF Readers that support javascript.
Javascript is used within Winpac Online to aid 'To Address' searching and to automatically
print waybills. Winpac Online will still function with out Javascript support in the browser and/or
PDF display program. If the PDF display program does not support Javascript then each wayill will need
to be manually printed using the print function of the PDF display program.
Note: internet firewalls can be configured to prevent the downloading of Javascript from
Winpac Online to the browser. If so configured this may prevent the above functions from working
automatically.
