Drop Shipping Purchase Order Module

[milobloom]

Of course reading the readme files sometimes helps....

2) If you are not interested in the tracking functionalities, you need to remove links to that functionality so that your admin menu doesn't show them. In the contribution files, find /admin/includes/boxes/extra_boxes/send_po_customers_dhtml and add two slashes (//) in front of this line:

$za_contents[] = array('text' => BOX_CUSTOMERS_CONFIRM_TRACKING, 'link' => zen_href_link(FILENAME_CONFIRM_TRACKING, '', 'NONSSL'));

3) Copy the entire structure starting with admin to your store.

4) Customize the email templates if you want. There are two three text files in /admin starting with email_. These contain the templates for the PO description (header and footer) and the PO fields (the product data rows). The tags enclosed in {} brackets are replaced with actual values when POs are being sent. I`m sure the rest is self-explanatory. :)

If you are removing tracking functionality, make sure to remove the {tracking_link} tag so that the emails do not contain a link for your subcontractors to enter tracking information.

[milobloom]

I know.. I am talking to myself alot this thread..

Ok. Editing the three files was VERY easy.
Taking out the tracking info.. Easy as well.

Now I am just dying to have the orders appear from the most recent order first.
Any way to change how its listed??

[milobloom]

Yea Yea its me once again...

When an email goes out, there is no name on the "From:" section in the email being sent. I cant seem to find where the From is being pulled from.

[milobloom]

Ok...

So here are my list of questions.

#1) Can I change the order from Ascending to Decending
#2) When it sends out emails, it says the sender is from "( none )" How can I fix this?
#3) In the admin where you can edit the subject line:

Subject of PO emails, {po_number} will be replaced with the actual number

How Can I change {po_number} with {order_number} (It wouldn't just take {order_number})
#4) And I seriously doubt there is anything that can be done with this.
What do I do if there are 2 items ordered for the same subcontractor that has to be ordered together.

Is this mod going to be picked up by anyone for further development? I think it should. Its really is a huge thing for us!
This is a a dream mod for anyone who has a site with dropshipping needs.
And I think its 90% there with the 10% just being what I mentioned above.

[Chuckl]

#1
I presume you means that you want newest orders first?
Yes you can change the order, in admin/send_pos.php, line 778 or so, change the line reads

query=mysql_query("SELECT orders_products_id, orders_id, orders_products_id, products_name, products_id FROM ".TABLE_ORDERS_PRODUCTS." WHERE po_sent='0' AND po_number IS NULL LIMIT $start, $l_odp_nastronie")

to

query=mysql_query("SELECT orders_products_id, orders_id, orders_products_id, products_name, products_id FROM ".TABLE_ORDERS_PRODUCTS." WHERE po_sent='0' AND po_number IS NULL ORDER BY 2 DESC LIMIT $start, $l_odp_nastronie")

#2
Same file, line 33, it uses the 'Email Address (Sent From)' in Admin-Configuration-Email Options.

#3
I presume you want to use the cutomer order number there, not the po number?
It won't accept order_number because the database field is called order_id, not order_number

#4
I assume you mean that you would like to combine multiple products on 1 customer order supplied by the same subcontractor onto 1 email?
The whole package is set up on a per product basis, rather than a per subcontractor basis, but this could probably be done without too much effort.

Regarding whether anyone is going to pick up this mod, it is by no means clear to me that all of it is released under the GPL. No one is going to touch proprietary code, or submit it to the ZC downloads section.
Secondly, even if the code is indeed unencumbered, anyone attempting this will have to ask 'How fluent am I in Polish?'

[HeathenMagic]

Hello all,

Is this the module called DropShippingSuppliersInterface?

Thanks,

[Chuckl]

No, the Drop Shipping supplier interface is for websites that act as a 'marketplace' for a number of different suppliers. The website owner supplies the showcase, and the individual suppliers manage their own products on the site.

The module being discussed here is generally for a site owner who supplies a variety of goods from different manufacturers, and wants the site software to produce a purchase order for ordering the goods from one of these manufacturers when a customer places an order on the site.
The goods are often drop shipped directly to the customer.
The difference between Ebay and Amazon might be a good analogy.

[HeathenMagic]

Hello Chuckl,

Many thanks for getting back to me. I understand. I was looking through the downloads section, and my save mods on my hard drive, but I don't think I spotted it. Do you know where I can obtain this module from?

Thanks in advance,

Heathenmagic

[Chuckl]

It has never been available from the downloads section here, hence my comments above about GPL, updating and distribution.

But, short answer, yes. Have a look here:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29466

If you read the whole thread, there are references to changes, additions, options, etc e.g. a send_pos_verbose.php that I have never seen, and the zip file 'as is' is extremely unlikely to work with 1.3.X versions.

Again, as noted above, there are 5 or 6 files in the package without GPL headers, which makes running with it a little awkward.

[HeathenMagic]

Hello Chuckl,

Much obliged. Will look through the thread for fixes and have found the zip file.

All the best,

Heathenmagic