@karlenigma i probably did a terrible job explaining it. i wanted our warehouse to be able to check off the fulfillments that they are including in one shipment, and have the packing slip reflect those totals. so my only solution was to do a sort of fusion of fulfillment and sales order. i need the info from the fulfillments so i can get the total amount being shipped. then i need data from the sales orders so i can get the rest of the data such as backorders, custom columns, description etc