Arctic Reservations

Development Blog: Works Great

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by Zachary Collier

Works Great

Thanks, that works great. This drops about 200 names from our current mailing and saves $50.

I was going through some of the name and fixing mistakes or mispellings and noticed that Arctic won't let company names include "&" or other symbols. Could you allow that?

That reminds me of international customers as we have a handful of them. There isn't a place for country on the customer record and we decided that we didn't want to clutter up the customer information form with a "country" field as this is a very small percent of our customers. And we would never direct mail overseas. So what we've been doing is entering their city, state, and country into the "city" field so that we have the information. That leaves the zip code blank so we don't add them to any mailng accidentaly. Does this seem like a clean solution?

December 15, 2005 9:10AM • permalink

Comments

1The company name now allows any characters you want. Also, I think that we should have a country field eventually, but it does not sound like a priority for you. It is easy to eliminate international customers once we add a country field (just add a condition that says country = United States). And by default, the country will be set to the US.

by Nathan Perkins • December 15, 2005 9:46AM • permalink

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