The Information tab provides a brief description of what the other tabs contain.

The Communication tab contains settings for communication between your instance of OnlineConnect and your backend system.

Clicking the Add button will open a new dialogue where you enter information about your account, file paths and printers.

Account

You can choose log-in method to your Unifaun Online account.

The credentials will be validated if you switch tab or click OK.

Order files

Specify the path from where the order files should be fetched. You can add multiple paths with different settings.

File format is set to XML by default.

Number of seconds after editing before the file is processed is an integer that specifies how many seconds the application should wait before processing the file after the latest modification.

Check Translate DOS (OEM) characters if the files originate from an MS-DOS based application. Character set referred to here is known as OEM or CP430.

Checking Use file lock (Advanced setting) will perform a file lock even if other applications are using the file. Use with caution.

Send this folder’s direct printing to a specific printer mapping. Leave blank from automatic selection (Advanced setting) should be set if specific printer mapping for this path should be used.

Printers

Direct print is enabled by default. If disabled, shipments will be created and stored in Unifaun Online > Shipments > Stored printings where the printing is executed manually.

Guide – Printer Settings (recommended) is a step by step wizard that helps you to configure your label and document printers.

Use the Add-button to configure additional printers.

Printer mappings

You can create an alias for a printer (or printer pair). This is useful if you have multiple printing/packing stations. The alias is then used in the order file to direct the printout to a certain printing station.

Feedback report

In the Feedback report tab, settings can be made for two kinds of reports, Standard and/or Event based. Report files can be used by your beckend system in order to track a certain order’s parcel and/or consignment number or order status.

To generate a Standard report the application returns shipment information as one or multiple files and the report interval can be set in the Filter dropdown.

File format can be either "Standard format" or "Standard format with reference" that contain order number, parcel number, consignment number, printed date and possibly reference, separated by semicolon (;).

Event based reports are created once every 15 minutes. File contents depend on whether shipment status has been updated since last report.

You can select Naming method for both kinds of report.

The table below shows all available status events that can occur. Status availability may vary depending on carrier and service.

Settings in this tab are general, i.e. not account-specific.

Complete the E-mail messages section if you want the application to send e-mail messages, e.g. messages about invalid shipments, logging and other events.

The application acts as a mail client and needs valid SMTP credentials.

The Status tab shows a summary of the application’s activity. You can also restart the application or service from this tab and see memory usage (current/maximum/available).

Under the Events and Logging tabs you get a more detailed view of the Status tab.

Under the Support tab you find information about the application’s work, configuration and log directories. You can also create an information file that can be sent to Unifaun support, if requested.

Import order files manually by dragging them from Windows Explorer to the box or boxes under the Import tab. The boxes correspond to the search paths created under the Communication tab.

Files can be dragged and dropped into the boxes to activate a direct import of the order file as if it were placed in the corresponding directory.