Hello. I realize this is quite a big wish list item, but here goes.
ViArt does a great job at producing printable invoices and packing slips. We ship the majority of our packages using US Postal Service Priority Mail. The US Post Office Website allows you to create pre-paid shipping labels by entering in the delivery address and paying online. What has become very labor intensive for us now is having to retype the delivery address information from the ViArt packing slip into the US Postal Service web site.
In another job I have supporting computers, we use 2-dimensional barcodes to encode information on reports, bills, etc. These barcodes are then scanned using a quite inexpensive scanner, which when coupled with the appropriate backend software, can fill in a screen full of information, such as a web page.
What I would like to propose is to have ViArt encode the delivery information in a 2-D barcode that can be printed on the invoice and packing slip. Once this has been done, we can proceed to write an interface that will let us scan it in the shipping department, and eliminate having to retype all the delivery information again into the US Post Office website.
2-D barcoding is explained here in case this is something you're not familiar with.
http://www.barcodeman.com/faq/2d.php
What are the chances that 2-D barcodes could be added to invoice/packing slips in a future release? Are there others out there for whom this would be a benefit?
