Printing of shipping labels

LegoDk

Hello,

We have been doing great recently and have a lot of orders. Thank you for this!
It is a hassle though printing all these labels. Could we get a button to print out all the open order adres labels in a way so it uses a sheet of paper good to safe the enviroment (2 rows on a sheet)

Thank you for the great site, and the opportunity to make my hobby into an effective selling tool.

Captain.M

+1 for this please, great idea

NelisSolis

I'm not exactly sure what you want, but isn't this something that can be better done at a seller's own system instead of adding a button that suits only a couple of sellers? I think every seller has his / her preferences. I for example use a label printer for free format address labels (regular domestic mail) and A6 size labels (4 on a sheet) if labels need to be made through the system of the postal services. 2 addresses on a sheet would not work for me, so for me it would be an extra button that takes up space on the screen and I don't use.

With the download button on the "orders received" page, you get all the information (including all addresses attached to the orders) needed in an Excel-readable format, where you just can pull it through any kind of print template you have set up to match your wishes /formats required by postal services. It requires some time to set it up to work, but after that you have a system that works with your workflow (and your printer setup).

LegoDk

I see your point. I do not agree though, that would take far larger skills than the average lego brick seller has on coding. Ebay has this and Paypal also and it works great!
You can do anything with your store with 3rd party software and make it work. This should not be required though, in fact brickowl is more user friendly than bricklink and that is about the only advantage. If i would like to do heavy coding I would not be here but make my own system on ebay and my own website.
A simple sheet of paper with adresses should not take more than a few hours to make and safe alot of time for the sellers without extensife coding skills.

Lawrence

An option available is to purchase a Dymo label printer, which Brick Owl is integrated with. You can then enable that in your order setting, and you will see a print label button on all of your order addresses.

Stellar

Maybe the best here would be add a button next to the shipping address that when you click it it copies the address to the clipboard, then you paste it in your template pretty fast. Because if you don't fill all your sheet with the current orders, you will be wasting he last rows of all these address files generated and printed.

I started doing so, but now I have a label printer that's just 1 click

LegoDk

Okay do all Dymo label printers work or just a specific one?

Lawrence

The system interacts with the Dymo software, so presumably any modern Dymo printer is fine. You can create your own template, and upload that into Brick Owl.

Stellar

You can use the Dymo Label Software to create a template, then you copy the xml text from the template you saved to the Brick Owl settings and add the variables you need inside the template.

LegoDk

Order a dymo 450, hope it works Thanks

Stellar

I have the 450 to create address labels of untracked mail, and the 4XL to create the tracked labels with barcodes

LegoDk

No such thing as a printing button appeared ;( Works great, but not what i expected. Did I do something wrong?

paul'sbricks

@LegoDK - have you filled in the information on your "Order Settings" page?

When it is set up properly you should get a new button just next to the "Shipping Address" on each order.

I only know because I finally set mine up last week after having the printer for nearly 4 years lol.

LegoDk

Thanks Paul! That was what i needed! Did not know i had to do this step Now it works like a dream!