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Sales Order Entry

Take quotes and orders in the browser

Enter quotes and orders in the browser and move each one from quote to shipped, with stock untouched until the order needs it. Order takers find items by any SKU, see what the customer bought before, and check substitutes and other open orders without leaving the order.

A shopping cart beside an order document

What it does

  • One order moves through stages from quote to shipped, and quotes do not touch inventory
  • Add lines by item, alternate SKU, the customer's SKU or the ship-to's SKU, or import them from a file with a preview first
  • From any item line, open the customer's past purchases, substitute items with their available stock, or every open order for the same item or lot
  • Split an order, move it to another warehouse, and find any current or past order from one workbench
Two warehouse leads planning together on the warehouse floor

Where it fits

From customer quote to shipped order, for distributors.

  1. One record for customers, ship-tos and carriers

    Customers, their ship-to addresses and carriers are kept on one current record that every order starts from.

  2. This step

    Quotes and orders priced from your tables

    Each quote and order is priced from the customer's price level and your price tables, with discounts, fees and freight added on the order.

  3. Count, adjust and see stock by location

    The warehouse counts stock from selection through reviewed variances to count adjustments.

  4. Orders ship from the right lots and locations

    Lots and warehouse locations are set on each order line, by hand or automatically, so pickers know what to pull.

  5. Run order and stock reports from the browser

    Order and stock reports run with your own filters and come back as a PDF or a spreadsheet.

Questions about sales order entry

Straight answers, drawn from what the software does today.

Can order takers find items by the customer's own SKU?

Yes. Lines can be added by item, alternate SKU, the customer's SKU or the ship-to's SKU, or imported from a file with a preview first.

Do quotes reserve inventory?

No. A quote moves through the same stages as an order on one record, from quote to shipped, and stock is untouched until the order needs it.

Can order takers check stock while they take an order?

Yes. From any order line, order takers open the customer's past purchases, substitute items with their available stock, or every open order for the same item or lot.

Related capabilities

Also in orders and customers.

Customers, Ship-Tos and Carriers

Keep customers, ship-tos and carriers in one place

Your team maintains customers, their ship-to addresses, carriers, warehouses and sales tax codes from the browser, so every order and shipment starts from the same, current record.

Batch Order Processing

Update a whole batch of orders at once

Move a filtered group of orders to a new stage, reprice them, copy them or commit them in one run, with a count of what changed and a list of what failed.

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