BigLouie, You are correct that the A/B suggestions limits the number of orders possible, but you have far more options that the 999,999 you suggest. Because the sales order field is alphanumeric, you have "A"-"Z" available as well as "0-9" available so you have at least 36 options per character. This doesn't include all the special characters like "#" and "$" either. The correct number of possibilities is beyond 36 to the 7th power. Of course, if you limit the seventh character to A or B, the options are now 36 to the 6th power x 2 = 4,353,564,672. That should support a very large number of transactions. However, let's say you want to restrict the options to numeric only, then you would still have 1,000,000 x 2 (10^6 x 2 available numbers. Even if you did a thousand orders per day, you would have 2,000 days available or roughly 8 years (at 250 business days per year) before you would need to start over again.
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