The following are some suggestions to try out Clipper's capabilities for yourself (you may want to print these instructions to have them to hand. You may, also, want to reduce the size of your Fonts to the smallest size (or size 8) to see more on a screen.):-

1. First, click here to Log in. Enter 'demo' for both Userid and Password and then click on the 'Next' button (you will only be able to view the 'demo' shipments).
2. You are now in the Query Input Screen. First of all lets just view all of the demo shipments, to do this click on the 'Submit' button without entering or changing anything else - this will display a summary of all shipments. (Note the 'r/R' at the left of some shipments, denoting that there are some 'remarks'). This screen may show you all that you want know, particularly the current status of the shipment.
3. If you want to see a shipment in more detail just click on the HBL #. Try this with shipment 81026750 to see the full detail - Note that the extra detail is in four sections, (1) Basic Information, (2) Additional Information, (3) Remarks and History, (4) Client References
   There are 3 'Client Reference' numbers beginning 'E154'. (A Client Reference can be anything that you want to use to identify a shipment such as an invoice number, part number etc). Note, also, that one of the Remarks is for the foreign agent's eyes only (not for the customer!) this is denoted by a star (*) in the left column.
4. Very often you will want to select just one or a few shipments. Let's see what is happening to the shipments for a customer called 'HAL SYSTEMS'. Return to the Query screen and enter 'hal' into the 'Shipper' field and then click on 'Submit' - Note that only those shipments being exported by H A L SYSTEMS are shown and that Clipper has picked up H A L, H.A.L and HAL (ie 3 variations of the name).
5. Mostly, customers will want to follow progress of their shipments using references with which they are familiar, such as Commercial Invoice Number, Part Number etc. This is no problem (in fact, Clipper is designed around this requirement).
   Return to the Query screen, clear the shipper name and then enter 'e154' into the 'Client Reference' field (you do not have to enter the full reference nor does it have to be in capital letters) and click on 'Submit', - Note that the fifth column of the summary has changed to show Client References and that only those shipments that have a reference that begins E154 are displayed. 81026750 (amongst others) is displayed 3 times because it has 3 reference numbers. Also note that there are 3 references to E1541/1, two for our shipper H A L SYSTEMS and one for LEVON CORP.
6. We obviously do not want one shipper to see shipments for another customer. Clipper uses unique userids and passwords to guard against this. Return to the Login screen and enter a Userid of 'hal' and a password of 'demo' and then click on 'Next'.
7. Now enter 'e154' into the 'Client Reference' field again - This time, only the H A L shipments are displayed. (Thus your customer sees only his own shipments).
   Click on the HBL # 81026750 and see that, this time, the forwarder only remark does not appear.
8. Remember the 'r/R' to the left of some shipments in the Summary Listing? They have remarks, the 'R' denotes recent remarks and 'r' older ones. On the whole customers want to see all of those shipments with recently added remarks and Clipper makes it easy for them to do so.
   Return to the Login screen and log in again as 'demo'. In the Query Input Screen, click on the 'radio button' to the left of 'Remark Additions' in the top section, and then click on 'Submit' - Note that only those shipments that have had remarks added within the last 5 days (denoted by an 'R' in the left hand column) are displayed. You can set the number of days to between 0 and 99. This is how, with 2 clicks, you can see what is not going according to plan.
   There are a number of other 'One-Click' options including all status changes and all shipments currently 'In-Progress'.
9. Now it is time to see some reports.
   Return to the Login screen, enter 'demo' for Userid and Password, click on the 'Reports' radio button' and then click on 'Next'. A number of report options are displayed. Try selecting a Report, the DIY report is a good one.
   Note that, for any report, you can send it to an email address if you wish. Also, the information is displayed in such a way that you can easily print it.
10. You can also send an email request for a report; so you don't even need a browser to use Clipper!
11. Next, let's follow the progress of a Purchase Order from the time it is raised (ie before it becomes a shipment). Return to the Login screen again, enter 'demo' for userid and password and select 'Make a Query'.
12. Click on the 'Purchase Orders' radio button on the right hand side of the first table and then click on the 'Submit query' button.
13. You will see that a summary of Purchase Orders is displayed. This screen is very similar to the Shipment summary screen, the main difference being that the 'number of shipments' that make up the PO is displayed.
14. Click on Purchase Order 123456 and you will see that the full detail of the PO is displayed. Again, this is very similar to that for Shipments with 2 differences. The first is that the dates relate to Purchase Order actions and the second is that a summary listing of all Shipments for that order is displayed. You can then click on any HBL # to see more detail on a particular shipment.
15. You may have noticed that some of the fields on the Query Input Screen have 3 dots after them. This denotes that these fields take multiple values. For instance, you may want to see just those shipments going to either Melbourne or Sydney. To do so make sure you are viewing Shipments in the top section and enter 'mel:syd' in the 'Destination' field. Clipper will display all shipments for either Melbourne or Sydney.
16. There are plenty of other features of the Clipper Tracking System, you can sort on fields, you can select shipments at a certain status and a whole lot more, just experiment to see what it can do.

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