Despatching Batched Sales Orders

(Financial Controller only)

Use this option when you want to despatch the sales orders you have just selected. This option also prints a delivery note, updates the product records and creates a product invoice for the order.

To despatch a batch of sales orders, choose the sales orders required by clicking on them so they are highlighted, or use the Swap and Clear buttons.

When you use the Despatch option, Sage Line 50 assumes that you are despatching all the allocated stock for the sales orders you selected. If you wish to despatch only part of the allocated stock for an order, use the Amend Despatched option

The product invoices you create via Sales Order Processing, will appear in the Invoicing window. You can edit these invoices (although you cannot change the quality of the product despatched), print them and post them to the sales and nominal ledgers as you would invoices created directly by the Invoicing option. You can use these invoices if you need to check the date when an order or part-order was despatched.

If you despatch only part of an order, Sage Line 50 creates an invoice for that part of the order that was despatched. This means that when the order is fully despatched, you will have more than one invoice for it.

If you chose the Complete button from the Sales Order window, Sage Line 50 automatically saved the order for you, allocated stock to it and recorded the despatch.