Questions on InvenTree Capabilities: Sales Orders, Accounting Integration, and Shipping Labels

[stansmolders]

Hello,

We’ve been using InvenTree for a while and have a few specific questions about its functionality and integrations. Hopefully, some of you can help clarify these points for us.

1 - Creating Sales Orders without Parts
Is it possible to create a sales order without creating a specific part for the product?
Sometimes, we receive custom CAD or DXF files for one-time production, and it would be inconvenient to create a new part just for these occasional orders. Does anyone have a solution for handling such one-off sales orders without needing to create a new part in the system each time? Any ideas on workarounds or best practices would be appreciated.

2 - Accounting Software Integration
We are looking for a way to automatically connect invoices to sales orders and sync them to our accounting software.
Is there any existing integration available in Inventree? If not, what tools or methods have you used to automate this process or streamline the flow of data between InvenTree and your accounting system?

3 - Shipping Platform Integration
We’re hoping to integrate InvenTree with a shipping platform so that we can automatically purchase shipping labels based on the sales order details and print them directly for dispatch.
Does anyone know if this is possible? It would be ideal to have shipping information auto-populate based on the sales order, generate a label, and send it directly to a printer. If anyone has successfully set this up or can recommend a shipping platform that integrates well with InvenTree, we’d love to hear your experiences.

Thanks in advance for your help! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

[matmair]

1 is against the current logic - that would probably require a hard refactor
2 certainly possible with a plugin, I don't think there is a public sample of integrations
3 certainly possible with a plugin; this would be a good candidate for a bigger general plugin that handles shared logic and small shipper-specific plugins for logistics or shipping companies

[wolflu05]

Regarding 3, it may be worth looking into building an inventree karrio integration. You then only need to implement the communication to Karrio and use the already implemented delivery company specific adapters.

[SchrodingersGat]

1 - Creating Sales Orders without Parts

You can add "extra line items" to an order which are purely descriptive. This might be a workable solution for you.

2 & 3 would be great plugin candidates - depending on your particular integration requirements