Scheduled Order Export

[Geographicus]

We are wondering if there is a way to set up a regular export of all orders? I know that miva has an export orders function, which is fine for us, but I do not know if this can be scheduled to run on a cron?

Kevin

[Kent Multer]

Hi Kevin, I have a module for this. It can generate a report at regular intervals and email it to you. You can PM or email me to discuss the details.

Thanks --

[ILoveHostasaurus]

I'd recommend against this at this point. The ideal option would be to set up whatever system needs that data to pull via API on an on-demand basis, with API key, IP restrictions, etc. Then the system can get what it needs on-demand, rather than placing customer data at risk by pushing it out of Merchant into a flat file that lives on a web server for some indeterminate amount of time, but typically forever since more often than not the system that needs it has a scheduled FTP task that retrieves but never deletes.

[Kent Multer]

David makes some good points there ... For what it's worth, I will mention that my module does have a setting to delete the file after sending it.