Feedback title: macOS support for the Citrus-Lime courier label printing application
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Niv Sreejit (Store Manager)
We currently operate using Mac devices, but the Citrus-Lime courier label printing application is only compatible with Windows. This means we cannot print courier labels directly from our existing systems.
Citrus-Lime support explained that the application relies on Windows-specific components, including its PDF rendering engine, print-handling layer and underlying runtime. The only current workaround is therefore to purchase, configure and maintain a dedicated Windows computer solely for printing courier labels.
Courier-label printing is a core part of order fulfilment, so this creates unnecessary hardware costs, additional system administration and another potential point of failure in a time-sensitive process. For businesses operating on macOS, the feature is effectively unavailable despite being an important part of the wider Citrus-Lime workflow.
Please consider developing a platform-independent solution. This could be:
A native macOS version of the label-printing application.
Browser-based label generation and printing.
The ability to download a correctly sized, print-ready label PDF.
Integration with a cross-platform print service or courier-label application.
At a minimum, Mac users need a supported way to generate and print courier labels without purchasing a separate Windows device.
It would also be helpful to understand whether cross-platform label printing is being considered for the product roadmap and whether other Mac-based Citrus-Lime customers are experiencing the same limitation.
Neil McQuillan - CEO Citrus-Lime
I feel your issue here I'm a Mac user. I'll be interested to see if this is an issue elsewhere.
In terms of a quick fix, have you considered buying a cheap mini PC to effectively act as a monitorless Mac gateway for label printing. I'm not sure this would work in practice but from memory the label printing functionality can run on login and you could setup an automatic login on a £100 mini computer, I have a similar thing running in my house to solve this issue. The other quick solution would be running something like VM Ware or Parrallels or one fo the free VM hosting setups on a Mac to solve this problem. I'm not sure if this is helpful or too geeky but that would be my quick fix for this issue in my personal workflows when I need acccess to Windows software.