Temp/Dropship Address

ERPNext
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Hi everyone,

If we are the manufacturer and do dropship for our customers (our customers are the retail stores selling to public). What are the best practices for managing ship to addresses.

Most of the time we may never ship to that consumer ever again. When we create a Sales Order and add a ship to address it must be associated with that customer. After a while we may have hundreds of “Ship To” addresses under that customer. There is no “Temp Address” concept in ERPNext.

How do you resolve this issue?

Thanks in advance

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A clean up server script or a scheduler event to remove unwanted data.

Or even simpler create a custom field to store the actual address of the customer and use it in your print formats. Then you don’t have to update customer’s address every time as their actual address is now at invoice level.

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Thank you.

Clean up may not work (have a problem) because if you delete an address that is ship to address of a Sales Order/Invoice that Order/Invoice will not pass validation.

Custom Address field looks good. I try to minimize customizations but looks like this is the only way!

Thanks