Configure Bulk Print Invoicing with Accellos

This article describes a general Accellos scenario configuration.

• Accellos supports a standard invoice and supporting documents.

• Accellos configurations do not support statement or consolidated billing.

• Listener and scenario names must be alphanumeric.

• Using a special character in a name can cause unexpected results or exceptions.

To configure standard invoicing with Accellos as your provider, follow these steps:

1. In Synergize Bulk Print, right-click Scenarios and choose Add Accellos Scenario.

• The Accellos configuration includes the following tabs:

  • Repository Connection

  • Processing

  • Barcodes

  • External Connection

  • Stored Procedures

  • FTP Lookup

  • Email/Fax Settings

  • FTP Settings

  • Printer Settings

  • Batch Notification

  • Logging

2. Determine whether your Accellos setup has barcodes printed on the invoice or not.

The Repository connection differs for barcode and non-barcode invoices.

Choose one of the following sub-steps.

For encoded Barcode on the Invoice setup:

For regular expression (regex) parsing of the invoice image filename:

Note that debugging is not functional for Accellos scenarios.

3. Leave all Processing settings at their defaults.

4. Select the barcode format, if applicable.

Choose the format that matches your invoice output.

Although you can select more than one barcode symbology, this is not recommended as some symbologies conflict with others.

Code 39 (also known as 3 of 9) is the most common format.

Note: While it is possible to choose multiple directions, we recommend that you choose a particular barcode direction. For example,"East" is standard left-to-right orientation for barcodes and works in many cases. Also, for some Symbologies, choosing East and West will produce two values from the same barcode, mirrored.

5. Set up your connection to the SQL Accellos database.

6. Configure the stored procedures used to control Accellos print rendition.

• Name: sp_fl_synergize_get_inv_docs

• Parameter 1: @as_inv

• Parameter 2: @au_result

7. The FTP Lookup panel is not used for this configuration.

Skip it.

8. Configure the email that is sent with each invoice.

9. The FTP Settings panel is not used for this configuration.

Skip it.

10. The Printer Settings panel must be configured for the Bulk Print scenario to work.

However, the Accellos configuration relies on printers that are set up in Accellos itself and the stored procedure actually chooses which printer to use.

We recommend configuring this panel with a printer that will not be used.

11. Set up the Batch Notification and Logging panels, in the same way as any other Bulk Print scenario.

12. Click Save.