EMAILS - SENDING THEM FROM INFOR

Legacy Contributor

Can anyone give me some advice on sending Invoices from Visual?

There is no option to do this in Invoice Forms and we need to send a batch of them all at once. We have been sending them by fax but our customers are now asking for emails.

Are people using some third party software to which acts as a 'virtual printer' to send batches of invoices?

We also need to send all emails from Infor either as PDFs or as part of the email itself rather than as an attachment. RTF does not work well with QRP reports and recipients can alter our invoices etc!

Legacy Contributor

The easiest way would be to look into developing a custom app using c# or vb.net that ties directly into your live db. This will give you the ability to do it in a batch, grab customer email address automatically and attach as pdf or just generate html to send in an email. It would also give you the ability to set it up on a timer so you don’t have to manually trigger anything. To generate the pdf portion I’d recommend using SSRS and just call the web service available to generate the pdf then attach to your System.Net.Mail Message instance , or you can use the free crystal reports or any of the various free pdf generators for .NET The hardest part of this really would just be recreating your invoice print form, which shouldn’t be that difficult.