Use the sales document workspaces and enquiries to investigate and find information about your quotations, pro forma invoices, sales orders and returns and their associated order lines.
You can amend workspaces to display data to suit your business processes or current task. You can use the filter options and column selector to choose the data that is displayed.
You can use the Workspace Designer to change the content or to create your own workspaces. You can add or remove content and change the available actions, the reports, the columns and how they are displayed, the default filters used for the toolbar filter and so on.
In the desktop application, workspaces can be opened from the menu or from the drop-down list.
In the web browser, workspaces are opened from the drop-down list.
To open from the drop-down list, click the arrow next to the workspace title to open another workspace .
The following workspaces and enquiries are available in Sales Order Processing:
Open: Sales Order Processing > Enquiries > Sales Documents.
Use this to see information about your sales documents such as delivery and despatch details or invoice and credit note details.
You can:
Open a related workspace with the content already filtered. For example, if you want to view the lines for a specific order, select the order (using the check box) and choose Actions > Sales Document Line Enquiry. The Sales Document Line Enquiry workspace opens with the list of lines filtered for the selected order.
Note: This option is not available if you have more than one row selected.
Open: Sales Order Processing > Enquiries > Sales Document Lines.
Use this to see a list of all the lines on your sales documents. Use this to see information such as the goods despatched for each order line, goods allocated for each line and invoice history for each order line.
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Open a related workspace with the content already filtered. For example, if you want to view the order for a line, select the line (using the check box) and choose Actions > Sales Document Enquiry. The Sales Document Enquiry workspace opens with the list of lines filtered for the selected order.
Note: This option is not available if you have more than one row selected.
Open: Sales Order Processing > Enquiries > Sales Invoices and Credits.
Use this to see information about the invoices and credit notes produced from your sales orders and returns.
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Open a related workspace with the content already filtered. For example, if you want to see the line details for an invoice, select the invoice (using the check box) and choose Actions > Sales Invoice and Credit Line Enquiry. The Sales Invoice and Credit Line Enquiry workspace opens with the list of invoice lines filtered for the selected invoice.
Note: This option is not available if you have more than one row selected.
Open: Sales Order Processing > Enquiries > View Sales Invoices and Credit Lines.
Use this to see a list of the lines on your invoices and credit notes.
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Open a related workspace with the content already filtered. For example, if you want to see invoice details for an invoice line , select the line (using the check box) and choose Actions > Sales Invoice and Credit Line Enquiry. The workspace opens with the list of invoices filtered for the selected invoice line.
Note: This option is not available if you have more than one row selected.
Open: Sales Order Processing > Enquiries > Sales Document Status.
Use this to see information about the status of your sales orders.The Value Status Pipeline Indicator shows the percentage of the order that has been allocated, despatched, and invoiced. If a sales document has a zero value, the Value Status Pipeline is not displayed.
Sales Order Value Status Pipeline
The indicator is divided into five sections for sales orders and four sections for returns. Each section represents a stage in the sales order process.
Each section is shaded in a different colour. The amount of shading in each section represents the percentage of the total value of that order, which has reached that stage.
A line represents 0% and a fully coloured box represents 100%.
You can see the exact percentage for each stage of the order from a tooltip.
The stages of a sales order are shown below.
Stage | Colour |
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% To be allocated | |
% Available for despatch | |
% Despatched but not yet invoiced | |
% Invoiced but not yet posted | |
% Invoiced and posted |
Once the Invoiced and Posted section is filled to 100%, the order is complete.
The stages of a sales return are shown below:
Stage | Colour |
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% To be received | |
% Received but not yet credited | |
% Credited but not yet posted | |
% Credited and posted |
Once the Credited and Posted section is filled to 100%, the return is complete.
You can:
Run related reports.
Open: Sales Order Processing > Enquiries > SOP Payments Totals.
Use this to see information about the total number and total value of payments taken with sales orders.
You can:
Open: Workspaces drop-down list.
Use this to see a list of all sales orders, returns, quotations and pro formas.
You can:
Open a related workspace with the content already filtered. For example, if you want to view the lines for a specific order, select the order (using the check box) and choose Actions > Sales Document Line Enquiry. The Sales Document Line Enquiry workspace opens with the list of lines filtered for the selected order.
Note: This option is not available if you have more than one row selected.
Open: Sales Order Processing > Enquiries > Archived Sales Documents.
Use this to see a list of your archived sales orders and returns together with information about associated invoices and credit notes.
Sales orders and returns can be archived using the SOP > Utilities > File Maintenance > Archive SOP Orders and Returns option.
Note: Archiving is only available for On Premise deployments.
You can:
Open a related workspace with the content already filtered. For example, if you want to view the lines for a specific order, select the order (using the check box) and choose Actions > Archived Sales Document Line Enquiry. The Archived Sales Document Line Enquiry workspace opens with the list of lines filtered for the selected order.
Note: This option is not available if you have more than one row selected.
Open: Sales Order Processing > Enquiries > Archived Sales Document Lines.
Use this to see a list of all the lines on your archived sales orders and returns. Use this to see information such as the goods despatched for each order line, goods allocated for each line and invoice history for each order line.
Sales orders and returns can be archived using the SOP > Utilities > File Maintenance > Archive SOP Orders and Returns option.
Note: Archiving is only available for On Premise deployments.
You can:
Open a related workspace with the content already filtered. For example, if you want to view the lines for a specific order, select the order (using the check box) and choose Actions > Archived Sales Document Enquiry. The Archived Sales Document Enquiry workspace opens with the list of lines filtered for the selected order.
Note: This option is not available if you have more than one row selected.
Open: Sales Order Processing > Enquiries > Archived Sales Invoices and Credits .
Use this to see information about the invoices and credit notes produced from your archived sales orders and returns.
Sales orders and returns can be archived using the SOP > Utilities > File Maintenance > Archive SOP Orders and Returns option.
Note: Archiving is only available for On Premise deployments.
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Open a related workspace with the content already filtered. For example, if you want to see customer details for an invoice, select the invoice (using the check box) and choose Actions > Customer Account Enquiry. The Customer Account Enquiry workspace opens with the list of customers filtered for the selected invoice.
Note: This option is not available if you have more than one row selected.
Open: Sales Order Processing > Enquiries > Archived Sales Invoices and Credit Lines.
Use this to see a list of the lines on invoices and credit notes for archived sales orders and returns.
Sales orders and returns can be archived using the SOP > Utilities > File Maintenance > Archive SOP Orders and Returns option.
Note: Archiving is only available for On Premise deployments.
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Use this to determine the price and discount available to a customer for a standard stock item in relation to the quantity required.
The price and discount displayed for a foreign currency customer account may be subject to variation due to exchange rate fluctuations.
Open: Sales Order Processing > Sales Order Processing > Enquiries > Customer Price Enquiry.
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Reference
Customising workspaces using the Workspace Designer