On May 21, 2008, at 9:07 AM, suppressed wrote: > Bill Carr writes: > >> Does each order route have to complete before the client sees the >> receipt page? I am adding a route that posts the order information to >> an external POS system via a web gateway. Posting the order is slow >> and I do not want to annoy the consumer. I would like to post the >> orders to the third party system "as they happen" but I don't want to >> slow down the checkout process from the end user's perspective. >> >> Using the IC order Route system seems like a neat and clean way to >> handle this. I could always just put the code on the receipt page. >> I'm >> don't know about the order, as in sequence, of operations at place >> order time. >> >> Any thoughts? > > Do you need a response from the external POS system to be returned > to the > customer? No, but I would like the result recorded in IC's transaction log file. > If not then you could perhaps make an asynchronous setup where you > collect the data that needs to go to the external POS system and run > that > periodically separate from the order process? True, but t would not satisfy my "as the orders happen" condition. Bill Carr suppressed _______________________________________________ interchange-users mailing list suppressed http://www.icdevgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/interchange-users
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