Hi Damian, 

Normally I find that I need to leave whatever is specified in he Delivery 
Order, except that I will add a tracking number and piece count. 
As I noted this is an important subject, though I feel it is only partially 
focused on M2EPRO (so far I have only you and I using it w/ the connector). 
My last note probably supersedes this one, but as I said, I will drill into it 
more. I think some of my controls are not set up correctly in OpenERP. For 
instance some shipping methods need a matrix, others do not, some add a line to 
an invoice, others do not. Then there is the subject that you can have a 
Shipping Item (easy to work with sort of, but how is it related to Shipping 
Methods, and how to force real rate entries rather than default pricing). Drill 
time. 

best to you, 
Landis 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Damian Kuczera" <[email protected]> 
To: "Landis Arnold" <[email protected]> 
Cc: [email protected] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 8:01:25 PM 
Subject: Re: [Openerp-connector-community] Shipping Method Not Shown For 
Official Magento/eBay Integration Module Orders 



Hi Landis, 

RE the m2epro code how many shipment methods do you have? We have 2 ebay shops, 
each with 6 different shipping methods - but only one m2e code. So currently on 
every order we still have to check Magento (or ebay) for the rate used. m2e is 
not ideal but it is free and the developers (like here) are quick to respond. 
No experience of Amazon on it yet as we hope to open our Amazon shop 
imminently. How does your amazon process work? 

This is a really interesting point RE codes outbound and one I'm currently 
trying to fix. For an m2e order seeing the shipping method purchased is a 
problem, but as you say returning the final delivery method with tracking 
number back to Magento seems to be a problem for even Magento orders. e.g on 
Magento the customers orders 'Other 24 Hour Courier' but I ship the item via 
'UPS'... ideally we would ship via the Magento UPS method so the backend 
tracking link works... but it seems the carrier is ignored and just the 
tracking data is uploading. 

I know Magento allows a different carrier between sales order and delivery 
order since prior to integration we used freeshipping and then shipped via the 
ups method. 

The connector documents advise about setting carriers and shipping codes, but 
this only seems to work for order download and is ignored on shipping the order 
in Open to Magento. There doesn't seem to be a way of specifying the carrier 
when shipping an item. Possibly another limitation of the Magento API? 

Do you find the same? :-) 

Regards, 
Damian 
On 29 Apr 2014 15:31, "Landis Arnold" < [email protected] > wrote: 


On My side, I used he M2E Pro extension, though mostly for Amazon. 95% of the 
time I use the built in Amazon. I ship through Amazon with it and do my 
Tracking that way. I find it relatively easy to simply accept the "me2pro 
shipping" code and enter a trackin number. Then I can go to Amazon (as I would 
assume I could with Ebay) to see the real tracking. 

It would be nice, of course, to have more information in OpenERP but Magento 
does not seem to tolerate changing the Shipping code in my experience (as it 
means a change to the order). 

I would note that in OpenERP Payment methods screen there are actually "2" 
notation type fields available. Perhaps a second field (method as Damian 
describes), below the standard Magento Field could allow indication of carrier 
(though this is for internal communication). The M2EPRO method transmittal does 
not really tell the customer who's tracking number is being transmitted from 
OpenERP. This communication can take place via a standard message in OpenERP or 
Magento backend however. "Method" display may be all that is required. I don't 
know if that is a Connector Screen or a generic OpenERP screen however that is 
used in Delivery Methods. 

My thoughts for now (other than I would prefer to not use M2E Pro at all. It is 
very byzantine for Listings Management) 

Landis 

Landis Arnold 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Guewen Baconnier" < [email protected] > 
To: "Damo and Susie" < [email protected] >, 
[email protected] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 7:49:37 AM 
Subject: Re: [Openerp-connector-community] Shipping Method Not Shown For 
Official Magento/eBay Integration Module Orders 

On 04/29/2014 03:33 PM, Damo and Susie wrote: 
> Hi all. 
> 
> The official Magento / eBay integration extension (M2E Pro) uses a single 
> carrier code and shipment method code (m2eproshipping_m2eproshipping) for all 
> orders. In Magento the actual carrier method is displayed using the 
> 'method_title field’. The connector matches the shipping method using the 
> carrier_code, but in the case of eBay orders this is the same regardless of 
> the shipping method. 
> 
> As a result the end user (when viewing a imported order in OpenERP) is unable 
> to determine the eBay shipping method (since all orders use whatever has been 
> defined as the ‘m2eproshipping_m2eproshipping’ method) purchased and has to 
> refer back to Magento in order to clarify this. This is ok if you only have 1 
> eBay shipping method, but most sellers have several which means checking 
> every order in Magento. 
> 
> Is it possible (or could it be made so) that the ‘Method_Title’ is displayed 
> (where m2e describes the actual shipping method ordered) on each Magento 
> order (maybe in the shipping product) so that eBay orders shipping type is 
> displayed? 
> 
> Thanks in advance, 
> 
> Damian 
> 

Hi Damian, 

The Magento API does not gives the method title when we ask it the 
information about a sales order. The only thing it gives is the code, 
such as: 

'shipping_method': 'flatrate_flatrate', 

So, if several methods are using the same code on Magento, we can't know 
when we import an order. 

Best, 

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