Sales Module
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The Sales module enables you to manage quotes, orders, shipments, and invoices. For instance, you can create a sales order outlining the sales details and what the customer owes you while calculating the margin and profit from the cost of goods sold.
- All details, data entry and history regarding customers, quotes, orders, invoices, and credits are available under the Sales module tab.
- There is a range of reports on sales, margins and profitability. For more information, see Margin Enquiry, Backorder Enquiry, and Unit Sales Enquiry.
- You can design templates for printing sales documents. For more information, see Doc Designer and Printing Sales Documents.
The following diagram illustrates the Unleashed sales process.
What is Order Management?
Order Management ON: multiple shipments and invoices per sales order.
Order Management OFF: one shipment and invoice per sales order.
- Order Management is a set of actions that the seller can perform to ensure the goods are delivered to the customer in the most efficient way possible.
- Unleashed's Order Management provides you with increased transparency in the order management process. You have more control to manage shipments in the warehouse with multiple invoices, orders and shipment statuses.
- This functionality provides you with an improved structure, because warehouse staff can update what's happening within the warehouse, and administration staff can access that information quickly and easily.
- Users can set and check order and shipment statuses, you can keep customers informed at regular intervals.
The table describes available options based on whether the Order Management feature is ON or OFF. For more information, see Workflow examples.
| Feature | Order Management - ON | Order Management - OFF |
|---|---|---|
| Sales Order |
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One sales invoice and shipment will automatically be created for every sale order sales |
| Sales Shipment |
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| Sales Invoice |
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| Reports |
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The Shipment Enquiry and Backorder Enquiry reports are not available |
Order Management Workflow Examples
In this section, we provide use case scenarios to demonstrate how you can use the sales module, with several different workflow scenarios.
Order Management OFF
Matt, a new Unleashed user wants to keep his workflow simple. So, he has decided to retain the default option of Order Management disabled. Therefore he can only have one Shipment and Invoice per Sales Order. When Matt creates and completes a sales order, an invoice and shipment are automatically generated.
Order Management ON
Sarah, another Unleashed user, decides to enable Order Management. Therefore, she can have multiple shipments and invoices for each Sales Order i.e. she can create a part shipment or invoice.
What is a Sales Invoice?
- A Sales Invoice is an itemized list or statement that provides the customer with a list of goods that they have received from the business that they purchased items from.
- In Unleashed, you (as a business owner) can use the Sales Invoice function to create, edit and send invoices to customers quickly and easily. This allows you to have the flexibility of customizing invoices to suit your purposes and enhances the transparency of the sales process.
- There are two forms of invoicing controlled by the Order Management feature.
- For more information, see Create a Sales Invoice and Invoice Enquiry.
What is a Shipment?
- A shipment is the action of shipping goods; which could be the items or goods in stock that needs to get transported from one location to another.
- Unleashed shipment function gives you the ability to manage shipments, including multiple shipments for one Sales Order, all through the shipping process (pick, pack and dispatch).
- For more information, see Create a Sales Shipment and Shipment Enquiry.