FYI: Possible upcoming issue with ShipStation

I received an email from ShipStation last night, apparently they are updating their systems to 64 bit. They are recommending updating Order ID's to "bigint" to accommodate the changes bt 5/30/24. ZenCart order id's are currently "int(11)".

Here is a LINK to their article.

mikestaps:

I received an email from ShipStation last night, apparently they are updating their systems to 64 bit. They are recommending updating Order ID's to "bigint" to accommodate the changes bt 5/30/24. ZenCart order id's are currently "int(11)".

Here is a LINK to their article.

Seems that there may be some confusion? The use of (11) simply identifies how many characters should be displayed (minimum) when forcing the value to be padded. It doesn't represent the maximum number of digits to allow the value to have.

Or perhaps I misunderstand the perceived issue.

To be honest, I'm not really sure, it's above my pay grade.

I just wanted to share the info here so that people were aware.

If ShipStation is only processing orders that come from your store, and then updates your store when an order ships, then this change should not impact you, because it would only be using ID numbers provided by Zen Cart, thus would never be longer than ID numbers supported by Zen Cart.

DrByte:

If ShipStation is only processing orders that come from your store, and then updates your store when an order ships, then this change should not impact you, because it would only be using ID numbers provided by Zen Cart, thus would never be longer than ID numbers supported by Zen Cart.

That is exactly what I was thinking, thank you for clarifying.