We need to inform the insurance company about the contents we're shipping with the packages. And for that, it would be really cool if we somehow had the ability to set this information quickly and easily through the user interface.

Currently, in the customs section, there's a description field where you have to manually enter, via free text, the contents of the package. This info is then used for insurance purposes (DHL Express / ShipmentDetails / Contents).

It would be great if we could get an additional field in the line items (item_type or so) when creating an order, where we could submit an insurance string for insurance purposes. And this could be easily selectable with a multi-select in the frontend to inform the insurance about what products are included.

To implement this we could iterate over the line items in the order, gather all the insurance descriptions, and then go through it once with a unique function to prevent duplicates in the select field. This way, the selection in the multi-select field becomes relatively simple. And then, of course, we take that and use it to write the contents part for the shipment.

Thing to consider: The DHL Express API only allows 90 characters in the ShipmentDetails > Contents field.

What do you think?