hex65000
07-03-2008, 08:36 AM
I know this has come up for a few of you in some context. That is the ability to combine invoices together. I've had a couple of auctions where buyers were concerned that they weren't getting all of thier stuff shipped out because they requested a total while they still had bids hanging on other items. I try to blob as much stuff together when I ship -- helps keep the cost reasonable.
At the same time, there is the caveat that an invoice could become incorrectly combined. I'm not sure how you could glue it together in a cohesive way. This is me thinking out loud, so take it as you will.
Perhaps, we look at each invoice as a 'bucket' of sorts.
{insert gratuitous LOLrus "they be stealing my bucket..." joke here}
You could take multiple invoice buckets and place them in a larger 'invoice holding' bucket that could be appended to. This could act as a tool to combine shipping for multiple invoices. You zero out the shipping in the single invoice bucket, and then place a new shipping cost field in the multiple invoice holding bucket.
I think that needs some fleshing out, but can you see where I'm going with the idea?
What's embarrassing is that I really don't know how the site is coded/structured, and am only drawing on my own general programming knowledge. So Mike if the programmer responds with a WTF stare, just tell him I'm guessing wild. ;) :D
Hex.
[ clueless - and it shows... and... ewww! don't let it get on you. ]
At the same time, there is the caveat that an invoice could become incorrectly combined. I'm not sure how you could glue it together in a cohesive way. This is me thinking out loud, so take it as you will.
Perhaps, we look at each invoice as a 'bucket' of sorts.
{insert gratuitous LOLrus "they be stealing my bucket..." joke here}
You could take multiple invoice buckets and place them in a larger 'invoice holding' bucket that could be appended to. This could act as a tool to combine shipping for multiple invoices. You zero out the shipping in the single invoice bucket, and then place a new shipping cost field in the multiple invoice holding bucket.
I think that needs some fleshing out, but can you see where I'm going with the idea?
What's embarrassing is that I really don't know how the site is coded/structured, and am only drawing on my own general programming knowledge. So Mike if the programmer responds with a WTF stare, just tell him I'm guessing wild. ;) :D
Hex.
[ clueless - and it shows... and... ewww! don't let it get on you. ]