Update for next version - Drop Shipping

[NVL]

Many modern businesses use logistics partners, direct to client suppliers and drop-ship arrangements (or) have multiple warehouse locations of their own.

When an online client orders the system creates one order, all batched together as it can't possibly know whom the supplier is but it can ship seperately. Why not ship seperately and from whom?

By adding a field "supplier" which defaults to n/a we could import from Sage etc or build our own supplier drop down lists, thus via a group and filter routine create multiple despatch notes offline or if you really want to improve the software provide an automation area to email order notes immediately dependent upon payment acceptance rules.

The data is all there, surely the multiple despatch system would be an easy add on?

I do it manually via Sage right now via a simple wildcard report post-download and import to create email packing lists...

Any chance, even as an add-on / upgrade and I'm happy to beta test.

[cdicken]

Thank you for the wish list request. I have passed your suggestion onto the development team for consideration in a future release.

[pinbrook]

We do this already by prefixing our product reference numbers with a 3 digit supplier reference.

[NVL]

Jo, how do you get Actinic to seperate the orders?

Easy in Sage via filters and prefix per area - but we're talking full automation here, an item I beleive Mole End is looking at for late 2004.

[Jan]

We have got a drop shipping module in development, we don't have a release date for this product - we are working with other companies on this product and are on schedule ATM.

Regards,

[NVL]

Six Month Update

Chris / Jan,

Any update upon this topic?

Are we still looking toward an add-on module or has this been integrated into V7...?

Dave.

[cdicken]

This is not a feature in v7. Sorry about that.

[provide]

Actinic Order management drop ship application

Hi everyone..

We have been running 8 related Acinic websites for 3 years now and due to necessity we have developed an order management system that facilitates drop shipping from multiple suppliers. In a nutshell the system allows us build up order values for specific suppliers until we are ready to order form that specific supplier. This is handy if we get small orders that don’t reach the minimum order level set by the supplier.

When we are ready the system fires off an email to the supplier with the order details and delivery info. Of course this can be set to send direct to customer but in our case it comes to us first as it works out cheaper that way. The system also allows us to access our order history from anywhere on our local network via a browser. It’s has been developed using php and MySQL and requires no special hardware it just resides on the main actinic PC in a shared folder.

Other stuff that we find useful is the way we can track order history with suppliers and the highlighting by colour orders according to which supplier they relate to, with a colour for those that are mixed.
Excuse me if that’s not a great explanation as I’m not the guy the wrote the software but what I do know is that is saves our guys a lot of time in processing and tracking orders which in turn saves me a fair bit on wages!

We have considered making this software application available to 3rd parties so if you or anyone else is interested please register your interest by emailing me sub@provide.co.uk or give us a call on 01603 871055. I have attached a screen shot from my browser which gives you an indication of functionality.

Regards,
Steve.
Provide Online Ltd
Web design, marketing & ecommerce specialists in Norwich Norfolk