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Barcode With Order Number Values

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  • August 31, 2023
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It would be great if we could have the option for any of the barcodes generated in ShipStation to be set to the order number values and not the Quick Ship special character values. The order summary report that has barcodes for each order cannot be scanned by our WMS as the barcodes are a special ShipStation code and do not reflect the actual order numbers barcode. Having the ability to scan order numbers via barcodes would be great for overlapping systems. Thanks 

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    • VikingGawd
    • January 13, 2025

    The barcode is the order id encoded to hexadecimal with ^#^ in the beginning and ^ at the end.

    so an id of 11234567 in the api would be a value of AB6D07. So the barcode would be ^#^AB6D07^.  

    Was looking for years and finally noticed the correlation one day.

     

    PHP:

    $orderId = 11234567;
    $barcode = '^#^' . strtoupper(dechex($orderId)) . '^';

    And reverse barcode to order ID:

    $fromBarcode = '^#^AB6D07^';
    if (preg_match('/\^#\^[a-fA-F0-9]*\^/', $fromBarcode) === 1) {
    $fromOrderId = hexdec(substr($fromBarcode, 3, -1));
    }

    Javascript:

    const orderId = 11234567

    const barcode = `^#^${orderId.toString(16).toUpperCase()}^`;
    const barcodeLegacy = '^#^' & orderId.toString(16).toUpperCase() & '^';
     
    And Reverse
    const fromBarcode = '^#^AB6D07^'
    let fromOrderId = null
    if (/\^#\^[a-fA-F0-9]*\^/.test(fromBarcode)) {
    fromOrderId = parseInt(fromBarcode.slice(3,-1), 16)
    }
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