Enabling or requiring cost accounts in PitneyShip Pro or PitneyShip Enterprise
Cost accounts allow you to assign shipping labels and postage refills to an account. This can help you track how you spend your postage funds.
Products affected: PitneyShip® Pro, PitneyShip® Enterprise
Cost accounts allow you to assign shipping labels and postage refills to an account. This can help you track how you spend your postage funds.
- Select Settings > Cost Accounts.
- Select Settings.
- Select .
- Choose the desired options:
- Require for all shipments
- Require for all stamps
- Require for Certified and ERR
- Require for add ship request
- Require for adding postage
- Show Cost Account Hierarchy: Allow users to select sub-accounts when assigning cost accounts (PitneyShip Enterprise only). Without this setting, users can only select parent accounts.
- Require Cost Account Hierarchy: Require users to select the lowest available level of sub sub account (child account) when assigning cost accounts (PitneyShip Enterprise only)
- Require Cost Accounts Budget Restriction: This prevents users from charging labels and stamps to a cost account in excess of its budget threshold.
- Select Update.
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UPDATED: May 30, 2025