Is there a way to place an icon on any Shipment going to a customer that has been shipped to in the past. I would match on the exact address and email address and do the calculation in SQL. Perhaps an asynchronous call could be made and the icon could show up in the interface if the order is for a repeat customer to a matching address.

Why the need: Many addresses don't validate. When they don't, I go to google and look up the address. If I get a house or a business then I let the order go as formatted. If I get nothing then I look at Zillo. If Zillo.com show nothing, I call the customer. Having an icon or color difference to show repeat orders would save me from needing to lookup the address.  This would save time.

Another uses case. I sometimes put samples or extra items in the shipment for repeat customers. I'd love to have a numeric value 1-9+ that indicated how many orders have been received. This would help me to distinguish between repeat customer and new customers. With new customers I sometimes put review request collateral in the shipping box. I treat new customers different from repeat customers. I would love for shipping easy to be able to help identify first time vs repeat customers.  If a numeric value is too expensive from a SQL efficiency standpoint, then just an indicator that the customer is a repeat customer would work.

I would be willing to pay and extra $4.95 or so for such an add-on. I think that many others would also be willing to pay extra.  If the SQL is not expensive (does not put much load on the database) then I think that this would be a good feature for everyone (I would also build-in an on-off switch in the admin somewhere so that no everyone would need to have this enabled).