Bare Bones "Turbo Mode"
Product scans in GroovePacker take 1.5 seconds each, on average, under normal conditions. This meets the needs of most workflows where each item is scanned, placed in the box and the next item is picked up to be scanned.
Some high volume workflows have orders pre-packed prior to scanning and the items are then scanned quickly in succession as they are packed into the final carton. Here it may scanning times of less than a second per item are optimal.
In order to achieve this the extra checks and optional features would need to be disabled. For example we execute some code to ensure that barcodes are not case sensitive. This prevents issues for many users that have alphanumeric barcodes but it does add some time to the product scanning process. It's also possible to have multiple valid barcodes for each item and each barcode of each item in the order must be checked when we verify a scan.
This proposed feature would disable all options not essential to verifying items in order to shave some time off the product scanning process. Since checking to see if the options are disabled takes time it would not be possible to select which features were disabled.
These are the features that would be disabled or modified:
ALL Action Barcodes: SKIP, RESTART, Etc.
Barcode Suffix Removal & Recording
Multi-pack barcodes
Serial Number Recording
Skip-able product option
Add to any order product option
Only the Primary barcode would be accepted during scanning
Barcodes would be case sensitive
This feature has been added to the General settings page near the bottom. It is called “simple product scanning”.