Hi Nicolas,
Just picking up the thread of this discussion, my company uses Sage accounting software for all of our manual sales accounting. We are a UK company and Sage is one of the main products for accounting. From this and other responses I have seen on the forum I think we will be able to export the details that we need for import into Sage by doing an export from the back-end of Hikashop using some code (I will ask our techies to do this).
However, I have also been looking at how to allocate a 'nominal code' to the various products and services within the our shop. These are codes which are used by accounting software to classify sales of products into various categories.
The nominal codes are for our internal consumption only. They would not be seen by the customers at any time. They would however be available for export along with all the other order data so that we could read them into Sage.
I have had a quick play around Characteristics to set up and store a value in a field I have called 'Nominal Code'. However, even though I have marked it as 'unpublished' it still shows up as a selectable variant on the front end when I view the product I have allocated it to.
I realise this is not ideal. Do you have any other suggestions for storing a product data attribute such as this?
Regards
PhilP