Order Confirmations in the Application

Hello All!

I am just throwing this out here to see if anyone has any ideas about this for Version 16.

We still have patrons, especially during the subscription period where people are buying packages with only zones listed and unseated tickets, who like to get a printed copy of their purchases in addition to any potential e-mail confirmation we may or may not send.  Currently, in the application, this is easily achieved by going to the print window, and selecting, instead of one of the e-mail templates, what is ostensibly and InfoMaker custom report/form which then loads and can be saved/printed/e-mailed as an attachment.  I was trying to figure out if there was a way to do this method with HTML templates, and I do not believe there is because that just inserts a new item into the sending queue.  But with InfoMaker going away sooner rather than later, this is a solution we will be needing.

Potential solutions running around my head include:

• Box Office staff members temporarily attaching their own e-mails to the accounts, sending themselves something while the patron is at the window, printing that off and giving that to them (I do not want to do this).
• Giving Box Office staff members access to the HTML templates build area in the application so that they can use the testing functionality there to send something to themselves immediately to again print and give to the patron (I REALLY do not want to do this; though it would likely be a quicker solution than the first one, the likelihood of someone accidentally muddling the code of one of the HTML templates is HIGH).
• Simply creating a custom SSRS report based on the order number which outputs the desired information that can then be saved/printed/etc... (heavily leaning towards this).

Clearly, the last option would not be the worst thing in the world.  But the thing Box Office staff love about the current option is that it is right there in the flow of normal order handling.  I was wondering if there might way for the SSRS report to be inserted into the flow in the same way, or some other variant with HTML templates that did not occur to me.  Just seeing if I can avoid telling them that they are just going to have to save the order, open up "Reports and Utilities" and go run a report using the order number they just created to run a completely separate report to print out.

John A. Moskal II