[ic] Preparing Orders

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Caleb Phillips)]

On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 22:20, Michael Stearne wrote:
> Does IC provide any tools for packaging the orders once they are 
> received?  Specifically, can IC print shipping labels or packing slips 
> for the order that is about to be shipped?  If IC doesn't provide tools 
> for this, how do you all usually handle this?

Well...

	I wrote a perl script that runs on a cronjob which creates a CSV(comma
seperated value) file of the orders. This is then manually imported into
a MAS90 Database. Then another perl script that one of my compatriots
wrote creates a CSV from these MAS90 SOs. This CSV is used to 'print'
our labels with Crystal Reports on a 'Specialized Label Printing
Device'. Then shipping does something with the labels.

yuck...but it works. The moral here is that when things have to go
through accounting, complications are created....*grimace*

Note that I am putting my site live on Jan. 1st, and have yet to use the
Admin 'facility', so I may be a little jaded as a backend hacker.

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