Emailig workorders (to cloud printer) & more

  • Resolved dianova

    (@dianova)


    4 years, 8 months ago

    Hi Forum

    I’ve purchased the automatewoo plugin with the hope of having a simple way or achieving the following:

    When we get an order in status Processing, and email would be send to our cloud printer.
    The email itself should consist of all line items, augmented with a brief product description.

    This brief product description is the problem….
    As all e-sellers know, the information regarding the products need to be sales-reaalted by nature and the titles need to include all the keywords etc etc to be able to rank fairly high on google and what not. This is not at all useful information for the crew actually putting the orders together and having the postal service fetch them.
    Instead I would like to have a very brief description making it crystal clear to them what they should actually put in the box….

    My idea was to put this description in a Meta field (all products should have this) and then ideally have the email look something like this:

    for all line items:
    <ProductCode> <How many> <Brief Product Description>
    end

    Any ideas about how to accomplish this in an easy way?

    The AutomateWoo only have a limited list of variables I could include in the email and it reads nothing from product, but only from order which means that I can’t add anything from products in the email.

    All ideas welcome, Ola

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • crslz

    (@crslz)

    4 years, 8 months ago

    Hey,

    I have no experience with that plugin. It is certainly possible with custom code, but the adjustments for this are just a bit too extensive to share a code snippet here. I don’t know what your experience is with this? I certainly want to share some links to help you get started and possibly answer further questions but it will require a basic knowledge of php.

    If you do not have that knowledge yourself, I advise you to look for a developer who can do this for you.

    regards

    Thread Starter dianova

    (@dianova)

    4 years, 8 months ago

    Hi and thanks for response.

    Please share what you can, perhaps some developer I know can help me with this if I have some good starting point. Unfortunately I’m way off being able to code this :-/

    Anyone else have any ideas that does not involve a developer?

    Regs, Ola

    crslz

    (@crslz)

    4 years, 8 months ago

    Go through the following tutorial and be sure to pay attention to the following 3 points.

    Adding WooCommerce custom fields programmatically

    1) Adding a custom field in the back-end

    2) Saving the custom field value

    3) Displaying custom fields in the WooCommerce order and email confirmations

    If you have additional questions, be welcome.

    Regards

    Thread Starter dianova

    (@dianova)

    4 years, 8 months ago

    Hi Crls

    Well this is nog really what I want to do even if that’s perhaps where I end up.

    If I create a field as you suggested and for each product populate the field with the proper work-instruktion, then this is not what I want the customer to see. The only purpose is to be able to grab it later on and print this information as part of a workorder.

    Anyway, I have been experimenting a bit with AutomateWoo and thought that perhaps I can settle with simply doing two things: SHowing the order number and list all products purhcased in that order -> Print
    Then we would have a handbook laying next to the printer with all SKU:s and exactly what they mean and how the order should be fulfilled.

    The sad part is that the order.items doesn’t even contain the SKU:s but only the Order Description…. this is very unprecise and subject to change, so I can’t build a handbook on this :-/

    Am I the only one that need to have crisp and clear information to the production line to ensure proper order filfillment? If not, how did you do it?

    Regs, Ola

    crslz

    (@crslz)

    4 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    Yes, I know that the tutorial contains parts to show the customer the custom field, but you can just skip it and only take over the steps that apply to what you want to achieve

    Thread Starter dianova

    (@dianova)

    4 years, 8 months ago

    Ahh, Ok thanks.

    I a currently looking at using a plugin called Pick-List instead. Perhaps this is close enough that I can use it as a mechanism for what I want.

    If it doesn’t work the I guess your suggestion would be the best.

    Regs. Ola

    Thread Starter dianova

    (@dianova)

    4 years, 8 months ago

    Just wanted to connect back and say that i got a refund for the AutomateWoo and bought the plugin “WooCommerce Print Invoices/Packing Lists” instead.

    This does 80% of what I need out of the box, and now I just need to place a handbook next to the printer to solve the remaining 20%

    Not cool, but at least it gets the job done.

    Regs, Ola

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