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How to Create a Shipment off a Trigger on Salesforce

Published on 06 December 2016 by in salesforce 

Here we will show you how you can create a shipment directly via a trigger on your Account object. For this example we will use our UPS app with our ShipAutomate product.

First, set up a trigger on your account object. This trigger will run each time the account is updated.

 

The trigger calls this apex class “AccountTriggerHandler”. The full cod...

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Part 2 of 3: Pick and Pack station on Salesforce – Custom Labels and Packing Slips

Published on 29 November 2016 by in salesforce 

Last week we wrote a first post on how we created a Pick and Pack station on Salesforce. In that post we’ve covered UI, scanning barcodes and integrating weights and scales. Today we’re focused on label generation and custom printing.

  1. Labels
    • On this occasion, we made custom thermal labels in a 4×6 format using the ZPL programming language. The link to the ZPL thermal label documentation is here: Continue reading »

Part 1 of 3: How we created a Pick and Pack station on Salesforce

Published on 22 November 2016 by in salesforce 

Recently, we built a Pick and Pack station inside Salesforce for one of our customers. We really believe in the potential value it can add to user interactions, which is why we’ve decided to share pieces of how this could work for your business. We’ve created two blog posts to explain how this works. It is also worth mentioning that this can integrate with any ERP system you may already be using on Salesforce.

In this first post, ...

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