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Can I create customers / trading partners at order time in EDI ecommerce
Stuart Bechman, modified 3 Years ago.
Can I create customers / trading partners at order time in EDI ecommerce
Post Date: 8/7/19 (Bronze, 2 Posts) Recent PostsI am planning to use QAD's EDI eCommerce to link my external eCommerce system (Shopify) to QAD.
My understanding is that Trading Partners need to be defined during the setup of EDI eCommerce before they can be used. However, the nature of our (really, any) eCommerce system is that new customers will come to the eCommerce site and order products that will then be fulfilled from QAD. So clearly we won't know who the customer / trading partner is until the order is placed.
Is it possible to set up EDI eCommerce to accept / define new QAD customers at the time an order is generated?
Thanks!
Tomaz Ranzinger, modified 6 Years ago.
Re: Can I create customers / trading partners at order time in EDI ecommerc
Post Date: 8/7/19 (Silver, 77 Posts) Recent PostsMark Garnett, modified 6 Years ago.
Re: Can I create customers / trading partners at order time in EDI ecommerc
Post Date: 9/24/19 (Bronze, 15 Posts) Recent PostsAs Tomaz suggests you need to have the trading partner defined before any processing, but it can be a single shared tradign partner (Shopify in your case).
Sales Order transformaitons can be designed to create new ship-to address on the fly (AND auto-set trading parnter parameters) but from memory it is not able to create new customers.
I guess if you truely trust the inbound data (eg you dont need finnace team to set a credit limit), you could have custom fucntion that creates the new customer and then uses that new value in the transformation.
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