Copyright © 2001, William Weiland
Create your orders batch file based on the date of the order. You specify the beginning and ending date and name the batch, this module will do the rest. It finds orders which have not already been batched (optionally you can include previously batched orders) and that fall within the date range you specified. Many people fill orders from the merchant notification email and infrequently look in the order processing section to review a detail about the order. Hence, they do not bother to batch daily. This module allows you to maintain your batches in a logical, historical manner (e.g. by month), much like the file cabinet in your office without having to run the batch at a specific time or date.
1) In admin, click Add Modules
2) Click the file upload button
3) Browse to find the daybatch.mvc file on your hard drive and upload
4) Click Add to add it to the domain
5) Click the plus to the left of your store name
6) Click on the Utilities link
7) Check the box to the left of Batch Creation by Date and select Update
1) In admin, click on plus to the left of Stores
2) Click the plus to the left of your store name
3) Click the plus to the left of Utilities under your store
4) Click the link to the Batch Creation by Date
5) Name the batch and enter the desired start and stop dates. The format for dates is YYYYMMDD, e.g. 20010726
6) Once the batch is created, the Run Report screen pops up
7) You can run a report then or you can find the batch and run a report later from the order processing section
Note: The screen also shows a list of existing batches and the number of orders in each. There is also a quick delete link for each batch. Use that link with caution. It will delete the batch and ALL orders in that batch. Only click that link if that is what you intend to do. There is no recall once the link is clicked.