{"id":3446,"date":"2015-09-09T19:21:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T19:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/?p=3446"},"modified":"2020-06-24T15:06:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T22:06:33","slug":"monsoon-oms-stone-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/monsoon-oms-stone-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsoon OMS (Stone Edge) Integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsooncommerce.com\/solutions\/monsoon-oms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Monsoon OMS<\/a>, formerly Monsoon Stone Edge, is an\u00a0order and inventory management software solution which outputs in Text\u00a0(.TXT) format.<\/p>\n<h1>Best Practices<\/h1>\n<p>Of the <a href=\"\/support\/index.php\/how-does-eformz-integrate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">four main integration options<\/a> for eFORMz, <strong>virtual printer<\/strong> is the recommended method for capturing Monsoon OMS application output. This requires the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Add eFORMz as a new printer in your software\u00a0application. Your application prints to the eFORMz virtual printer, which captures the print stream as a file. eFORMz combines and formats the file, possibly with data from additional sources for output to a thermal or laser printer.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Windows<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsooncommerce.com\/solutions\/monsoon-oms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Monsoon OMS<\/a>\u00a0runs on Windows, so the integration process would require <a href=\"\/support\/index.php\/configuring-the-eformz-port-monitor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">setting up the eFORMz Port Monitor<\/a> and adding eFORMz as a new printer in Monsoon OMS.\u00a0Since the\u00a0print jobs are local, no\u00a0LPD is required. Once this is configured, run the process and <a href=\"\/support\/index.php\/capturing-a-print-file-spoolfile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">use any test files sent from Monsoon OMS to the selected input folder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Necessary Posts To Consult<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"\/support\/index.php\/configuring-the-eformz-port-monitor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Configuring the eFORMz Port Monitor<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/support\/index.php\/capturing-a-print-file-spoolfile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Capturing a Print File \/ Spoolfile<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Sample Process for Merging Data Streams<\/h1>\n<p>The eFORMz user\u00a0processes the order and prints out the packing slip with Monsoon OMS. The .TXT file goes to <strong>C:\\Minisoft\\eFORMz_6\\Input<\/strong>.\u00a0The customer weighs the package at the weighing station and prints the shipping label with their\u00a0shipping solution. The file (.ZPL for this example) goes to the same directory, <strong>C:\\Minisoft\\eFORMz_6\\Input<\/strong>.\u00a0The eFORMz Director looks for .TXT files to process, copies them to <strong>C:\\Minisoft\\eFORMz_6\\Output<\/strong>, and renames the files to begin with the order number so it can be matched up with the order number in the shipping label. For details on how to match up shipping labels and packing slips based on a common reference, consult the videos and sample files at the following page:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/support\/index.php\/creating-a-two-sided-label-w-a-reference-number-parts-i-and-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/index.php\/creating-a-two-sided-label-w-a-reference-number-parts-i-and-ii\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From there, the eFORMz Director appends .hld to processed files in <strong>C:\\Minisoft\\eFORMz_6\\Input<\/strong>, and the eFORMz Director prints the shipping document.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monsoon OMS, formerly Monsoon Stone Edge, is an\u00a0order and inventory management software solution which outputs in Text\u00a0(.TXT) format. Best Practices Of the four main integration options for eFORMz, virtual printer is the recommended method for capturing Monsoon OMS application output. This requires the following: &#8220;Add eFORMz as a new printer in your software\u00a0application. Your application [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[107,108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3446"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8102,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions\/8102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}