Orders

Use the Orders function to enter customer invoices, orders, price quotes, credit memos, RMAs, and cash invoices. You can also use this function to edit, verify, or backorderClosed An order for a good or service that cannot be filled at the current time due to a lack of availability. An item on backorder will be sent to fulfill an order as soon as it is available. transactions. You can enter orders before you receive payment, when you receive partial payment, or when you receive the entire payment.

The ability to enter Return of Merchandise Authorizations (RMA) gives you the ability to accept and credit returned merchandise. An RMA precedes a credit memo like a quote precedes an order. An RMA number will be issued, and the transaction will be held until product is received against the RMA.

Note: If you interface Sales Order with Inventory, sales order transactions update the Inventory in-use and committed quantities online. When you post sales order transactions, the system updates the available quantities, dates, detail history, and lot and serial history if the inventory options are set to retain this information.

After you enter an invoice or order, you can print online invoices, picking slips, and quotes if you select these options in the Business Rules function. You can print online invoices for any customer, even if the customer's record does not require that the customer receive invoices. You can also create a purchase order or purchase requisition from a line item you want to add to the order. See SO Link to PO for more information.

Note: A pop-up notification window will appear if the customer is on credit hold when you enter a sales order.

Transactions do not need to be in the currency assigned to the customer for which you are entering a transaction. That is, transaction amounts may be entered in any Active Currency. Use the Base Currency check box that appears when you select a customer that uses a currency other than the base currency to view or enter transaction amounts in your company's base, or functional, currency.

With the Configurator application, you can use the Orders function to configure a sales order item or a manufactured item. You choose which type of item (sale item or manufactured item) you are ordering when you select the item to configure.


Command buttons on the toolbar:

Select To
Update Unlock fields for editing. If the Shipping application is installed: If the current order is in 'Picked' status, the system will retrieve any existing shipping information and update the order's ship information, including the ship number (tracking number), total charges, actual weight, actual ship date, ship via, and number of packages.
Copy If available, copy items and quantities from the customer's previous orders. See SO Copy for more information.
Verify Verify a new order. Note: Click Yes to verify and ship all items or click No to verify the order but do not want to ship all items. If SO is interfaced with WMS, this function is not available until after the order items are picked. The order has to be picked before it can be verified. See this topic for more information.
Live (appears only if the order is a price quote or an RMA) Change the order's status to New and commit items if the order is a price quote; change the order's status to Credit Memo if the order is an RMA.
Rem Credit View the customer's credit limit, open invoice balance, transaction balance, and credit available. See Credit Dialog Box for more information.
Exchange Rate Edit, if applicable, the exchange rate before saving the transaction. Once you save the transaction, you cannot change the exchange rate.
Print Print, if applicable, the invoice, acknowledgment, picking slip, or packing list associated with the transaction. If SO is interfaced with WMS, you can print a picking slip using this Print button if all items on the SO are not yet released or are in a status of 'Released' or 'Assigned'. See this topic for more informaition.
Release Release items to pick for the order if the WM business rule for release for picking is set to 'Manual'. See WM Release for more information.
Note: If a sales order is released from SO Orders by using the Release button, any text in the Notes field on the sales order will display in the Notes column in the WM Release Items screen.
Payments Collect online payment information to be processed through the Traverse Payment System (TPS). See External Payments Button for more information.
Ship Calculate freight for the order (based on the total charge from the shipper) after verifying the order, or open the Shipping Details View for the order. This button is visible only when the Shipping Application is installed.
Tax Integration Validate Address or Calculate Tax. Click the Validate Address to validate the address. Click Calculate Tax to calculate tax. The calculated tax will be updated in the Net Due field, Adjustment tab, and Totals tab.
Once the tax is calculated, the Tax Status field in the Ship-To tab will display the status of the calculation (Recalculate Tax/Tax Calculated). In case the customer is not utilizing Avalara, the Tax Status field will be set to None.
The Tax Integration button will be enable, only if the Tax Group ID is Avalara enabled.
Tax Detail View Tax Details for each line in all transactions.
  • Use the Base Currency check box, if available, to select whether to display the transaction's currency amounts in your company's base currency.
    Note: This is only available if you use multicurrency and the customer's currency is different than the base currency.
  • The Net Due read-only field displays the total minus the paid amounts.

To create a new sales order, invoice, price quote, credit memo, or RMA record:

  • Click the New button on the toolbar.
  • The system will generate a new Transaction No.
  • Select the Transaction Type, as necessary: New (Sales Order), Invoice, Price Quote, Credit Memo, or RMA.
  • If you are producing a credit memo, do not use negative numbers; the system automatically assigns the credit memo value a negative sign.

To edit an existing transaction:

  • Select the transaction you want to edit from the Transaction No drop-down list.
  • Click the Update button on the toolbar to unlock fields for editing.

To delete an existing transaction:

  • Select the transaction you want to delete from the Transaction No drop-down list.
  • Click the Update button on the toolbar to unlock fields for editing. If the order has already been released for picking, you will see a notification dialog box when you click Update.
  • Click the Delete button on the toolbar. Click Yes on the notification window that appears.

Line Items

Use the Append button () to add line items to the transaction.

If the SO business rule to Use Contract Pricing is set to 'Yes', the pricing engine will use the contract pricing values for the customer or item/location, if available.

If you want to add a configured line item to the transaction, use the Configure button on the Customer Tasks Pane. See the end of this topic for more information.

Use the following command buttons on the menu bar to work with the line items for the transaction.

Select To
Re-sequence Reset the line sequence numbers if you've dragged the item lines into a different order.
Ser No Entry/Lot Entry Enter the serial number and/or the lot number for the item. This button(s) only appears if the item is lotted/serialized.
Detail View additional information on the item, add bin and container numbers (if interfaced with Warehouse Management), and enter comments about the item. Bin is required. If the Use Containers WM business rule is set to 'Required', you must enter a container.
Show Kit Detail View additional information on the item, add bin and container numbers (if interfaced with Warehouse Management), and enter comments about the item.
Note: This button only appears for kitted items.
Req Generate a linked purchase order, requisition, or BM work order, as appropriate.
Completed Toggle whether the list of line items includes Completed lines in the list.