As an aside to this thread - I'm at the Intuit Connect conference in San Jose. Yesterday the addin QB app (they have an app store) that won their $100k Showdown Prize is called "Shared Refund". What it does is coordinate with QBO and your shipping companies like FedEx, UPS etc. Shippers will refund the fee for delivering a package if they miss their delivery window BUT you have document the event and submit a summary of all such events at the end of the month. This can run from 1 - 3% of shipping fees monthly which can get to be a noticeable amount. But it's a PITA and few companies go through the trouble of auditing the delivery logs to capture these events.
This add-in does that work for them - crawls the delivery logs, identifies valid refunds, prepares the documentation and submits it. The refund comes back to the customer. They charge a percentage of the refund so no refund = no payment. For the customers it's like found money they wouldn't have picked up any other way. This would be a great feature to build into any db that's handling this sort of data. On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 9:01 PM, Dave Nasralla <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey All, > > We are attempting to streamline our shipping area. After a visit from > the local FED EX rep, it looks like the easiest thing is to have the > computer with the FEDEX manger pull data (name and addresses) from our > 4D system via ODBC and then push the tracking data back. > > If I understand the architecture correctly: > - the 4D ODBC Client gets installed on the FEDEX manager computer (32 > or 64 bit) and then I setup a dsn pointing to the 4D Server on the SQL > Port (all on the FEDEX computer) > - then I must purchase an SQL Server license for my 4D Server so the > ODBC client can connect > - no license for ODBC is needed for the FEDEX Manager > > Am I getting this correct? > > TIA, > > dave > > -- > David Nasralla > Clean Air Engineering > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:[email protected] > ********************************************************************** -- Kirk Brooks San Francisco, CA ======================= ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
