Order Processing

Here is a very brief outline of some of the capabilities of our Order-Processing application:

Description

Features

• Efficient entry of new orders (select customer; key stock number and quantity and press Enter; repeat until done)
• Double windows for editing; order lines in one grid, order-wide information (addresses and so on) in a separate window
• Best of both: Batch processing for efficiency and accuracy; selectivity to make it easy to process single orders.
• Customer settings for accepting backorders and other options
• Select items and/or prices from customer sales history
• Customer credit limits and warnings when you're about to exceed them

Reports and Documents

• Open-Orders List
• Sales History List (items sold by customer)
• Customer documents. . .
• Order Acknowledgements
• Picking Lists
• Packing Lists
• Invoices
• Up to nine custom-format documents; type-set quality (eliminates pre-printed forms); see sample below
• Sales History List, sales by item by customer

Some Samples

This is the window you use for entering shipped quantities and other editing of order lines.

Note that the columns are arranged about like an invoice. Editing the order is as easy as changing the cells of a spreadsheet. As you change quantities or amounts, all the extensions appear instantly.

 

Here's the window in which you work with order-wide information, such as the addresses, discounts, sales taxes, and so on.

Both of these windows are open as you work with orders; you can switch back and forth, depending on what you need to do.

 

When you print invoices, the default settings are to print all those that haven't been.

But, you can easily just check off the ones you want. And, you can click radio buttons at the top of the window to change the way it groups orders.

You can also press a key combination from either of the main order-editing windows (see above) to print an invoice for that order.

 

The window from which you process orders includes the same flexibility.

Again, it defaults to processing all the invoiced orders. Just click OK if that's what you want to do.

Or, check off the invoices you want to process. It's as simple as that.

 

At pretty much any point, you can press F9 and review the data for the current customer.

As you can see, this is a standard Windows properties window, with separate tabs for each group of information related to a customer.

Click here for more detailed descriptions of the customer properties information several of our applications use.

 

Here's a sample of a printed invoice.

Note how it includes the company logo and is virtually typeset, eliminating pre-printed forms. We can pretty much duplicate any form you have.

 

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