Okay, this seems silly, but I'm curious if vendor/...
# general
k
Okay, this seems silly, but I'm curious if vendor/customer billing addresses can be entered with the country as an optional field. I know I can use the override box & remove the country, but wondering if we can omit it altogether.
m
What’s the purpose of this? It would seem the country might be an important piece of information.
k
Yeah.... Really the issue I'm dealing with is that the address is printing on checks with the United States and sometimes the phone number under the City, ST, Zip... apparently the USPS scanners read the bottom two lines for automated sorting & with the country/phone showing up there, our checks are getting shoved off to the manual sort & are being very delayed in delivery. I know I can go into the override & eliminate the info, but I didn't see an obvious way to import the data that way & was thinking just turning it off may be easier.
m
Oh! I see. Why don’t you customize the check template to eliminate the country?
k
Maybe its the address field I'm using? Its check.address
m
Yes. You can piece together the address format you want by replacing the generic address field
k
I don't see the street address/city/state/zip in my fields list... Hmmm, i'll have to dig further, that might be a better answer.
m
k
That's interesting, but it doesn't seem to apply to existing records unless I go in & edit the address... and then the check.address still seems to print all the original data. I'll play with it a bit more.
Shoot, yeah, it seems like I have to go in & edit the existing record for the new format to apply...
m
You could do a csv re-import
k
Do you think that would trigger it?
m
Can’t say for sure. Haven’t done it in awhile. You could test a few and see before doing all of them.
k
ya, thanks!
this does help.