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the labelpipe manual

The same manual that ships inside labelpipe under Help, here so you can read it before you install.

labelpipe designs, generates and prints labels and documents. Labels can be printed in three ways:

Open Printing → Print labels.

Every print or preview is a job. Printing → Jobs & history lists them, newest first; the list refreshes by itself.

Setup → Label templates lists all templates.

Open a PDF template with Design. The screen has three columns:

ZPL templates are written in ZPL, the language of Zebra label printers. Open one with Design.

A field is a named value of a label: the product name, the price, the promotion end date … A placeholder puts a field into a text: the field name…

Labels often need "print this only when …" or "this text depends on …". labelpipe has one condition language for all of these places:

Setup → Sites — every store has a code (the site_id other systems send, e.g. demo-main), a default printer and optionally its SAP plant (e.g.…

Access → Users (administrators): name, e-mail, role (operator, template manager, administrator), the stores the person works for, and a password.…

The complete, interactive API description is at API docs (Help → API docs). There you can also try every call: click Authorize, paste a token, open…

If something else goes wrong, note the job ID (Jobs & history → the job) and send it to your administrator.

Setup → Printer routing (administrators) sends labels to different printers depending on their content — for example, notes for ERP class 5 go to…

Setup → Document forms (template managers and administrators) holds A4 documents such as delivery notes (стокова разписка), invoices or transfer…

Printing → Import labels prints labels from an Excel or CSV file — for example a SAP export of the products in a promotion. Two steps:

labelpipe comes in two editions. labelpipe free is what you install today. labelpipe pro will remove the limits below with a licence key, without…