![]() ![]() Yet Endicia IS capable of posting back information to a QuickBooks invoice without the QODBC drivers-just not as discretely as we need it to. THIS IS DESPITE THE FACT THAT ENDICIA REQUIRES THE QODBC DRIVERS TO POST-BACK THE POSTAGE CHARGE TO AN “AMOUNT” FIELD IN A QUICKBOOKS INVOICE. Endicia can almost always use the QODBC drivers to obtain a shipping address from QuickBooks, but posting data back to QuickBooks breaks-frequently.Ħ.Ğndicia technical support has, on occasion, disavowed any responsibility for fixing problems between Endicia and the QODBC drivers. Without warning, Endicia won’t be able to post data back to QuickBooks via the QODBC drivers. The Endicia software’s working relationship with the QODBC drivers “breaks” all too often. We have never used it because of this and because Endicia is the party that requires us to use the QODBC drivers to have the full post-back functionality we need.ĥ. In the case of technical problems, support from QODBC costs additional on a per-incident basis. The $199 license fee must be paid again EACH time you do a major “point zero” upgrade to QuickBooks.Ĥ. That additional piece of software is known as a set of “QODBC drivers.” The license costs $199 per workstation. If one needs the postage to land in the Amount column-which is CRUCIAL for my company-one must purchase a license to an additional piece of software.ģ. By itself, It cannot place the postage in the “Amount” column in a QuickBooks invoice. Retail customers are too numerous to warrant an individual entry for each in our QB Customer center.Ģ.ěy itself, Endicia can only post-back the ship date, tracking number, and postage to a “Description” column in a QuickBooks invoice. Or to retail customers that do not have their own entries in our QB Customer Center. This is good for mailing packages to our distributors but bad for mailing packages to our distributors’ end-user customers. Browser-based shipping solutions such as ShipRush can draw notification e-mail addresses directly from BOTH the e-commerce sites they integrate with, and the QB Customer Center). It cannot draw an e-mail address from an invoice (UPS WorldShip and FedEx Ship Manager can, with some configuration changes. ![]() 1.Ğndicia can only draw an e-mail address to which to send a shipment notification from an entry in the QuickBooks Customer Center (we have entries for all of our distributors there). ![]()
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