Adding a Drop Shipment Template

To create drop shipments in StoreFeeder you will need to add a drop shipment template for your suppliers.

If you go to Products > Suppliers to see your list of suppliers and then either edit the supplier you want to add a template to, if it's for a specific supplier, or if you want to add a template to all of your suppliers if you edit your default supplier you can add a template to that supplier and make that the default template that's used for all suppliers. (If you set up a default template you can still add templates to specific suppliers if they require a different format.)

Once you're in your supplier if you scroll down to the "Export Templates" section you can set up a few different types of templates.

It's not obvious but you can have a purchase order and a drop shipment template so changing this section to drop shipments will not remove your purchase order template.

So if you set the transfer method to Email and then in export method you need to choose either either PDF or CSV - which option you select depends on how your supplier wishes to receive the drop shipment so you will need to ask them for their specification on what they want to receive.

PDF Template

To set up a PDF template you would select PDF and the "Drop Shipments" as the template type:

Once you change the template type to drop shipments the template section at the bottom of the page will change to your drop shipment template.

If you want this to be your default template for all of your suppliers you can tick the "Set as Default" option:

Then the last thing to do is add the template itself below:

If you are confident with HTML you can write the template entirely with HTML by clicking on the html tab at the bottom of the screen and you can use the tokens on the right to pull data from your StoreFeeder order through. Anything entered in the header tab will appear in the header of every page and anything entered into the footer section will appear on the bottom of every page. You can use them if you want or you can just enter everything into the body section.

For the loop tokens, the entire section you want to loop needs to be between our loop tokens which are {LOOP} and {/LOOP}, this will also loop html formatting. As an example of what you can loop, you could put product sku, product name and product price in loop tokens and then for each product on the order that section will loop around onto different lines.

Attached to this knowledgebase is a template you can use and edit as you see fit - you can copy and paste the html into the html tab of the "body" section. 

CSV Template

If your supplier requires a csv template instead of a pdf you would instead set your export method as csv and the template type as "Drop Shipment Lines":

To make this the default export type for your drop shipments you would tick the "Default Export Method" box:

To make the csv template you will need to ask the supplier what information they need to fulfill your orders via drop shipment and then match up the tokens to the fields the supplier needs.

You can add new tokens by clicking the "add new" on the right hand side and then you select a token from the drop down list of available tokens and in the Field Alias field you assign a name to that column, e.g. our token is called DropShipmentID but you may just want to display as a column called Order Number in the export your supplier gets so you would assign this a Field Alias of Order Number