We have a client that does it the same way. They need the packing slips before anything else. Even before invoicing.

I’m not sure if you made any progress with this module? Is there a workaround?

Thank you

This one works with all order statuses, has options to show out-of-stock warnings and shelving information, and has 3 pick list variants:

- Order-seperated Pick List, showing all selected orders separately, including a barcode of each order ID, the shipping method (so you can prioritize express-shipped orders), stock warnings (if your pick takes your stock below your stock warning level).

- Order-combined Pick List, showing all SKUs from all selected orders, grouped together for easy picking. Also shows shelving information and stock warnings, as well as a total count of all items, and a total cost (if you are purchasing from external supplier).

- Out-of-stock Pick List. This shows all items that will be taken below your stock warning level by the currently-selected picks, as well as the Qty needed to fulfill all orders, and the Qty needed to return your stock to the warning level. This is aimed at people that carry stock locally, but restock from an external supplier – you will know exactly what you need to buy to restock from each group of orders.

We also have a few Packing Slips, which can also be printed no matter what the order status is. They look much better than the default Magento ones, and can be customized easily in the Config.

It seems this fulfills what everyone here is looking for – if anyone has any suggestions for improvements, please get in touch.

You can see the extension in Magento Connect:
Magento Pick List and Packing Slips

Also practically would your customer be using an integrated packing sheet, with the sticker at the base, and if so, where do they print the Shipping label?

I’ve seen dual-sticker integrated sheets, which we currently have the shipping address in one, and the return address in the other. I guess it would be easy enough to print a sheet of return addresses, and include the customs info in the other one. They need item names (or type?), numbers, and values right?
What happens if there is a large number of items – can they be ‘summed up’? I guess the usual customs form is a set size, so should be able to.

Thanks!

Magento Pick List

It has 2 types of Pick List, one separated by order ID, one combined by SKU. It also has simplified packing sheets…

Please feel free to contact me with any suggestions.

I haven’t actually checked this in 1.4, but my assumption is that it hasn’t changed. I too have worked with people who really want to be able to print out a pick list. Unfortunately, Magento requires you to complete and invoice and a shipment before you can do that.

I am quite surprised that Magento hasn’t accounted for this yet. There are many people that just want to be able to change the status of orders and print out a shipment list without having to walk through the whole fulfilment process of creating invoices and shipments. You would think by now that there would be a config option to change that by now… Hopefully soon.

Magento won’t support us, even if we offer to pay for the support unless we spend $11k per year on the Enterprise version, and then pay for support on top of that! Why on earth would I pay $11k for software that I am losing confidence in on a daily basis?! Magento is at the top of everyone’s list for ecommerce platforms, but every day I find yet another bug or weird piece of logic that I don’t see in ANY other CMS. I’m embarrassed that I suggested this system.

Sorry for the rant, but this system has cause a lot of needless problems.

Mila’s idea is a great workaround that I’ll probably use. But it seems to me that in the Reports area, you ought to be able to ‘batch’ print all of the new orders or all of the open orders. (A way to choose which orders would be nice as well.)

Magento is great – I’m just getting started with it However I suspect that the folks who designed it haven’t handled the flow in a retail or manufacturing environment. Please don’t take that as criticism – we all have different ways of looking at processes and if someone hasn’t been in that environment, they can’t know.

I’d be interested to find out if this change could be made. I have enough coding skills to be dangerous but I have worked in several environments and would be willing to assist in looking at the flow of information, paperwork and product.