Have order status updated to Order Printed when you click the Print button to print pull sheets, invoices, or packing lists
This feature has been added to AbleCommerce Gold R9. You can create a custom order status and set event triggers for printing invoices and/or packing lists.
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CharlesA commented
Sorry, I did not respond to this. I did not have the settings activated in my UserVoice account to be emailed the comments. But I think the way you approached it will be fine. I just have to play around with it.
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How does this sound? We add 3 additional triggers to order statuses: Order Invoice Printed, Packing List Printed, Inventory Pull Sheet Printed. If those triggers existed, then you can create your own order statuses and have them automatically changed when it was triggered by the print. This seems to most flexible way of implementing the feature because every store has different procedures for processing and fulfillment. Comment if you think this will work!
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Elizabeth Bright commented
This would be great. My current client is having to pay for custom work for this to be implemented right now. The ability to distinguish if an order has had its packing list printed is critical to workflow and order confusion. Printed packing list indication implies the warehouse staff is already working from that piece of paper - so any office edits would just be lost in the void- vs an order still only existing within the office, so it would be editable by the support center before getting printed and sent out to warehouse.
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Jonathan commented
I tried the same approach as CharlesA for awhile, but it was not a great idea to use Order Statuses for this as the status will be changed by other actions making it still difficult to determine if an order was ever printed. Instead, I created an extension that adds flags to the custom fields for orders, which can be set on or off through a simple check box list. The printed flag is automatically set when a user clicks the print button on the print invoice page.
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CharlesA commented
This would be very handy for busy stores. Sometimes orders will accidentally be marked shipped because they came in during order processing. If this feature was implemented it would eliminate those situations.
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CharlesA commented
I like this idea. This would be very helpful in helping us prevent missing orders during order processing.