[Feature] Shipping labels

[Bouni]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
A few years ago I hacked together a system like invio which was not even half as polished.
However it included a function to get shipping lables with included the stamp (qr code) from Deutsche Post.
This labels then got send directly to my Brother QL710W label printer.
That made shipping stuff very easy.

Describe the solution you'd like
I see that that is a very specific request, but I would really like to have a button that sends a HTTP request to a 3rd party system with the address data. That way I can implement my custom label printing solution and its not to much work for you. That button could me hidden by default and only visible if configured in the settings ...

Describe alternatives you've considered
Copy and pasting address data works also but is a lot of manual work

[MalteKiefer]

It sounds like we need integrations.
Do you have an API link or something like this for DHL?

[Bouni]

Kind of, in the past I used the inema library to fetch the images for "Internetmarke" and then brother_ql library for printing the actual label.

You see it's quite specific. That's why I suggested webhooks so that various 3rd party services can be used.

[Bouni]

I just realized there is a bit of an issue. How can I select the right type Internetmarke 🤔

Maybe passing the address data as well as the list of articles to the API, the API then scans through the articles for an item with SKU that matches a Inetrnetmarke product code.

@MalteKiefer
I just looked at my code from years back and realized that Deutsche Post/DHL deprecated the API I used back then.
I do tests with the new API and it seems not all to hard to get such an API of the ground.

@kittendevv
What do you think about webhooks vs. "real" interation?

[MalteKiefer]

I think we integration would be the best
I'm currently working on a PayPal integration and should be released by the end of the week

[Bouni]

Ok, so do you want to write an integration for the Intenetmarke API and Brother QL?
My Typescript skills are far from good enough to do that 😅

[kittendevv]

I agree, I think a proper integration would be best

[Bouni]

My only concern is the broad spectrum of shipping companies and label printers.

You need a separate integration for every new entity I guess.

I did some experiments with Deutsche Post today and it's not a very pleasant experience to put it like that 😄

I had a quick look at the available Internetmarke js packages and they all use the now obsolete SOAP API as far as I can tell ...

[kittendevv]

Maybe it needs to be like an optional integration that isn't even like included by default but more like an installable extension.