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pixi Web Administration: Shipping Station

In Shipping Station, users can set their print options individually. In addition, users with administrative rights can define print options and box settings for logged-in users.

For trouble-free use of the Shipping Stations, it is recommended to equip or connect each station with its own printer. At the same time, a potential error source is eliminated if a special box range is defined for each shipping station.

Current Shipping Station

In this tab, a user that is logged in to pixi Connector can set a box range, printing options and printers for their shipping station.


Document(s)

Settings

Invoice and Credit

  • Don't print: The document is not printed and on the Package Overview page, the option for reprinting is disabled. The document will not be uploaded.

Note: Invoices that have not been printed will prevent you from continuing with the 1SS process. If unprinted invoices were created more than 10 minutes ago, you will need to print them first before scanning the next item.

  • Don't print - save it locally: The document is not printed but it is saved to the folder which is defined in the JSON file - pixi Connector settings.

  • Print: The document is printed via pixi Connector.

  • Print - save it locally: The document is printed via pixi Connector and it's saved to a defined folder in pixiToolboxSettings.json.

  • Print from pixi Desktop: A client opens and the document is printed via the client.

Credit documents are uploaded to the document storage according to the settings for document storage. In case of Don't print or disabled the activated database setting Save PDF Invoices/Reminders, the documents are not uploaded. When a credit document is uploaded to the document storage, the document can be attached to the email.

Delivery Note

  • Printing Option:

    • Print: Select this option if you are sending the delivery note physically with the order.

    • Don't print: Select this option if you are sending delivery note e.g. electronically.

  • Printer Name: The printer that should be used to print these documents.

Shipping Label

  • Printer Name: The printer that should be used to print these documents.

  • The settings for the shipping label also apply to return labels.

Tip: You can also use the printer used here for printing barcodes and item labels of delivered items. Make sure that you do not print the item labels and shipping labels at the same time.

Return Form

  • Printing Option:

    • Print: Select this option if you are sending the return form physically with the order.

    • Don't print: Select this option if your customers can e.g. retrieve the form electronically.

  • Printer Name: The printer that should be used to print these documents.

Third-Party Labels

Use this setting to print shipping labels in ZPL format (note: no PDF support) via ShipRush.

  • Print option:

    • Print: Select this option to print shipping labels via a third-party provider.

    • Do not print: Select this option if printing via third-party providers should be disabled.

  • Printer name: The printer you have selected for these documents.

Third-Party Documents

This setting is used to print customs documents via ShipRush. The documents are usually printed in A4 format.

  • Print option:

    • Print: Select this option to print customs documents created by your third-party provider.

    • Do not print: Select this option if you want the printing of documents to be disabled.

  • Printer name: The printer you have selected for these documents.

Settings and changes to settings are only applied when Save is pressed.


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All Shipping Stations

Admin users can access this page. Non-admin users get denied access.

Please note: In order to make changes to other shipping stations as an administrator, these shipping stations must be logged in to pixi Connector at the time of the change. If not logged in, these shipping stations will not be displayed in the list.





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Automatic invoice creation and printing

This feature is currently available for normal invoices in a defined box range and not yet for direct invoices and fulfillment. The setting applies to the entire database. The setting can either be enabled/disabled in Control Center by the pixi master user or by an admin user in pixi Web.

Disabled: Everything works as before. Invoices will be created and printed through the desktop client Invoices.
Enabled: Automatic invoice creation and printing will be done via pixi Web. When the setting is enabled, invoices will be created and printed for orders whose items are scanned into a box. Additionally, if this setting is enabled, printing via the desktop client, Shipping is not working anymore. The creation and printing process is executed every five minutes. The five-minute interval can be bypassed when the pixi Messaging event pixiEXScanInBoxFull is activated.

Please note:
Before Automatic invoice creation and printing is enabled, it is recommended to define printers and printing options for all (!) shipping stations. Only then, the setting should be activated for pixi to assign box ranges to shipping stations/printers. When Automatic invoice creation and printing is enabled for the first time, the settings on that page are empty and the printing functionality will not work. To use the functionality:
- Define (at least) the default shipping station
- Define the box range so that all boxes are assigned to one or more stations.


Default Printing Station

Only one shipping station per location can be defined as the default printing station. The default printing station will be responsible for creating and printing invoices for boxes that aren't included in box ranges defined for other shipping stations. To define a default shipping station, set the location first. As a next step, click the button in the column header () while the printing station is still highlighted to define the station as default. Afterwards, the default symbol will display in the first column.


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How To Define The Default Printing Station

Follow these steps to define a default printing station:

  1. Select the shipping station. The box will change to orange.

  2. Click the symbol in the first table header () to set selected printing station as default.

  3. The changes are automatically saved.

  4. The symbol to indicate the default shipping station is shown in the first column.









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