The impact of the internet on how retailers do business cannot be overstated, especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Retailers used to be reliant on physical inventory in on-site warehouses to fulfill orders, but a growing number of businesses never even see the products that they are selling as drop-shipping has become a common approach for meeting customer demand in a timely manner. NetSuite offers native support for on-site fulfillment, drop shipments, and special orders, as well as mixing and matching all three approaches simultaneously. In this post, I’ll discuss how drop shipments and special orders are handled in NetSuite and how to best leverage the available configuration options to meet your business needs.
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If you buy or sell products or services using NetSuite, then you have probably noticed the wide array of item types available for selection when entering new items. Determining which type is right for your application can feel overwhelming when you are first getting started in NetSuite but once you understand the basic differentiating factors between each type, you’ll find it to be a much clearer process. In this post, I will provide details on what distinguishes each item type and share a few practical use cases along the way.
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Scriptable email templates in NetSuite allow you to harness the capabilities of HTML and FreeMarker code to create highly-customized emails for both internal and external communication. In addition to supporting the display of both standard and custom fields in both the subject line and email body, scriptable templates also support the use of more advanced coding functionality like the insertion of subtemplates, current date/time, and dynamic formatting for multi-select field values. In this blog post, I’ll share the basic steps for setting up a new scriptable email template and provide five of my favorite tricks for making them even more useful.
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