rrinker

My client made an interesting request. They print pick lists and shipping labels (UPS), they NEVER print invoices. Currently, if an order contains 5 line items, there is one pick list and 5 shipping labels (all items ship in their own boxes). What they would like to do is get one pick list/label combination per line item without having to create individual orders for each line item. Has anyone managed to do this?

--Randy

Our client recently upgraded to SiteLink 5.0 and this, naturally, has now broken my program that pulled the SiteLink data for sending to their Amazon store.
First change was simple, but SO completely stupid - the data directory changed from sitelink/data to sitelink/sentdata. A completely MEANINGLESS change, why do something like this? Sorry, I write programs for a living and my clients would fire me if I did thing like Dydacomp so I get a bit incensed...
So I made that change in my program, figured everything would be OK now. But the client calls me back, shows me the screen - a bunch of gibberish. Pop into DBUWIN - GREAT, now they are encrypting the description fields. I found a message to this on Yahoo, the IDIOTIC excuse give was something about 'speeding up the upload.' RIGHT! The encrypted version is more than 2x the number of bytes as the plain text, so you'd need a better than 2:1 compression to even EQUAL the speed.

So - has anyone figured out the algorithm used here, so I can fix my program and get back on track?

This kind of thing is unconscionable. Oh wait, I'll bet Dydacomp has a $$$ add-on that shows me how to read the data, right?




--Randy

In addition to a Sitelink store, we are selling on Amazon. Orders from Amazon get converted into a MOM-comaptible format which are then imported using the Order Import module. However, we are seeing problems where it appears to be doing a SOUNDEX lookup on the customer to determine if they are existing or new - Dydcaomp has taken oour files and not been able to replicate this problem, but what happens is that a genuine new customer gets their order attached to an existing customer who is similar in name, phonetically. I have been assured that there is "NO WAY" for this to happen, yet it does. The new customer on the imported order has a different street address, different name, but lives in the same city when this happens. Does anyone else use the Order Import function to load orders in quantity? Any help would be appreciated.

--Randy