Batch orders into one invoice

[vbajock]

Is it possible in Macola to batch multiple orders for one customer into a single invoice and if so, how?

 

[Rob7]

vbajock,
There is a process called Consolidate Orders. This will take the line items of a group of Order Entry Orders for a common customer and create a new order. This new order would then be invoiced as a single order. The only problem with this is that the line items don't sum up. That is to say that if you have several orders with the same line item on them, on the consolidated order, you will have the same number of instances of this line item as there were orders for them.

Let me guess, you are trying to consolidate a number of EDI orders for a single bill to location?

Rob

 

[vbajock]

Yes. I am setting up an e-commerce server to exchange XML between the vendor (my client, the Macola user) and a customer who wants one invoice transmitted for all activity occuring on that day. The easy way to do it would be to print an invoice directly from Macola to file which I could then convert to XML, otherwise I've got to code a bunch of stuff to print a special invoice. Thanks for your help on this - it sounds like it might work.

 

[Rob7]

I did something similar but I had to sum up the line items so that they showed up only once. They consolidated the orders then ran my code to consolidate the line items on that order number.