How to Setup and Send an Order to milie (Thirsty Camel)

The steps below will show you how to set up and send an order from Shopfront to your milie portal.

Get an Accounts Flow Key

You will need to notify support@accountsflow.com.au about the integration, provide the store's ALM account number and request an Accounts Flow Key.

Enable your milie integration within Shopfront

1. Open the Menu
2. Select Setup
3. Select Integrations
4. Select Integrate for millie
5. Authorise the Integration
6. Select the toggle to Enable Sending to Millie
7. Insert your Accounts Flow Key
8. Select Save

Setting up your ALM Supplier in Shopfront

If you don't already have an existing ALM supplier in Shopfront, you will need to create a new supplier, see How to Create a Supplier. Once the ALM supplier has been created you can continue with the steps below.

1. Open the Menu
2. Select Stock
3. Select Suppliers
4. Locate your ALM supplier and select Edit
5. Enter the following ABN number 52002885645 into the Business Number field
6. In the Account Number field optionally enter your ALM account number, this will ensure that the number sends with the order file
7. Select Master Database Reference and apply ALM
8. Save the supplier

If ALM has already been integrated within Shopfront for electronic invoices, you may want to turn off the sending of i-orders, so that your order doesn't send through to the ALM portal as well as milie, to do this follow the steps below.

1. Open the Menu
2. Select Setup
3. Select Integrations
4. Find ALM and select Settings
5. Untoggle Send orders to ALM web portal

Generating an Order and Sending it to the milie portal

To generate an ALM order based on your sales in Shopfront, see Dynamically Generating an Order from Sales or to order stock based on pre-defined reorder points, see Generate an Order using Reorder Points.

Once the order has been saved and sent, you will need to log in to your milie portal and navigate to My Milie Orders.

From My Milie Orders select Current Order to generate your latest sent order sent from Shopfront.