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Order Detail Entry - Change Order Status (POP Only)
Viewed 6548 times since Wed, Sep 21, 2016
Diamond and Premier Only Sales Order Processing allowed for the ability for operators to change the order status whilst amending the sales order lines. This feature has now been added into Purchase Order Processing. Selecting the STATUS option... Read More
Change Status – Confirmation Items
Viewed 2897 times since Fri, Jun 19, 2020
Datafile 2019 and above, Diamond and Premier only When manually change a order status the system can be configured to prompt for a comment as to the reason for the status change.  This new feature allows you to define up to five items for... Read More
Staged Payment Schedule (SOP Only)
Viewed 2146 times since Fri, Apr 8, 2016
Diamond and Premier Datafile 2015 Onwards Only Sales Order Processing generates each invoice with a single payment due date, this new feature allows SOP Invoice production to generate an invoice with a payment schedule recorded against it –... Read More
Auto Accept Suggested Serials on Picking Document
Viewed 2106 times since Fri, Jun 19, 2020
Diamond and Premier only If, during Sales Order entry, you pre-allocate serial item selections then the SOP documents have the facility to automatically accept these pre-entered details and not prompt again during the document processing.  ... Read More
Application Pick Lists - Change Order Status
Viewed 2050 times since Wed, Sep 21, 2016
Diamond and Premier Only This feature allows for the option to change an order status as a pick list action. This option would allow, for example, a review of works orders to trigger updates to move the order from hold to active status. ... Read More
Record Last Order Details for Account and Stock
Viewed 2012 times since Fri, Jun 19, 2020
Datafile 2019 and above, Diamond and Premier only This new feature allows you to record on the sales/purchase account and stock record details for the last order added for that record.     Installation   Database Changes  ... Read More
Application Pick Lists Change Order Status
Viewed 1933 times since Fri, Jul 8, 2016
Diamond and Premier Only This feature allows for the option to change an order status as a pick list action.  This option would allow, for example, a review of sales order quotes to trigger updates to move the quote to active status. Selecting... Read More
Use Stock Prices from ‘Master’ Stock Item
Viewed 1890 times since Fri, Jul 15, 2016
Diamond and Premier Only Where you have multiple variants of the same stock item these may be recorded in Datafile as different stock records for quantity handling purposes but where pricing is required they all share the same price.  This... Read More
Alternate Stock Selling Units (SOP Only)
Viewed 1582 times since Thu, Mar 24, 2016
Diamond and Premier Only This new features allows Order Entry to select a Selling Unit for a stock line to allow order entry to have a quantity / price in one unit but to update stock in the main stock holding unit. For example you may hold... Read More
Sales / Purchase Order Processing - Quick Form Order Generation - Additional Features for Change Order Status
Viewed 1540 times since Fri, Jul 21, 2017
Quick Form Order Generation – Apply Cost Checks   Sales Order entry has the ability to validate the selling price of an entered order line against the stock items cost price – warning if below cost and optionally preventing entry without... Read More
Change Stock Location during Document
Viewed 1515 times since Wed, Apr 20, 2016
Datafile 2015 Only   Change Stock Location during Document Processing This option allows, during Delivery Note or Goods Received processing, to change the stock location that the order line is recorded against and thus issuing / receiving... Read More
Record Order Values by Status against Customer / Supplier
Viewed 1510 times since Fri, Jul 15, 2016
Diamond and Premier Only Existing parameter options allows you to accumulate the value of A-Active and F-Forward Sales Orders against the Customer Account (and similarly for Purchase Orders and the Supplier Account).  This new feature allows... Read More
Save Purchase Order Cost during Document Processing (POP Only)
Viewed 1483 times since Wed, Sep 21, 2016
Purchase Order Documents allow for the pickup of an alternate item for use as the cost price on a POP document – this could be used, for example, as part of a landed cost calculation allocating freight charges to the cost for update to stock.As... Read More
Order Detail Pick Lists
Viewed 1468 times since Fri, Mar 11, 2016
Diamond and Premier Versions Only Earlier releases have introduced definable pick lists into Order Processing for the Sales/Purchase Order Headers, Sales and Purchases Ledgers and Stock Control. Release 6.8 now extends this facility to the Sales... Read More
Mandatory Customer and Supplier Reference by Account
Viewed 1440 times since Tue, Feb 23, 2016
Selected Customers can require, and will reject, any invoice without a purchase order reference. Similarly you may require that orders to selected suppliers require an order reference. This new facility allows a flag to be set against a customer... Read More
Increased Details per Order
Viewed 1347 times since Thu, Feb 25, 2016
Increased Details per Order This new feature allows an increase in the number of details per order from 999 to 9999. Installation Application User Facilities The increased number of details is available automatically on update to... Read More
Dunning Messages on Order Processing Documents
Viewed 1294 times since Mon, May 16, 2016
Datafile 2016 Onwards Only   Often there is a requirement to include a message on documents issued to customers and suppliers – office hours changes, telephone and address changes, special offer notices and so on. Currently these... Read More
Replicate Order Confirm Detail Replicate
Viewed 1293 times since Fri, Jul 15, 2016
Diamond and Premier Only When replicating an order, the system prompts, after confirmation of the newly replicated orders header details, to replicate the details.  This new feature allows for the detail replication prompt to require a... Read More
Create Order Line within Documents
Viewed 1285 times since Wed, Apr 20, 2016
Datafile 2015 onwards only   Create Order Line within Documents This new features allows the addition of orders details whilst processing documents. Within the document, after confirming all the existing details the operator is prompted ... Read More
Extra Document Confirm Items
Viewed 1284 times since Thu, Feb 25, 2016
Extra Document Confirm Items Document processing currently allows for the setting of two confirm items when confirming the action quantity for an order line. This new feature allows for an additional ten items to be confirmed. Installation ... Read More
Nominal Code as Document Confirm Item
Viewed 1257 times since Mon, May 16, 2016
Datafile 2015 Onwards Only   Document processing allows for the definition of, previously 2 now 12, confirm items from the order line. A common requirement, particularly on Purchase Order Processing, is to confirm the nominal code but whilst... Read More
Quick Document Detail Pick List
Viewed 1209 times since Mon, May 16, 2016
Datafile 2015 Onwards Only   When processing a document manually the system displays ten entries from the order(s) at a time and asks to confirm each action quantity in turn. With a large number of details this can take some time. This... Read More
Allow Part Deliveries by Order (SOP Only)
Viewed 1195 times since Fri, Apr 8, 2016
Diamond and Premier Datafile 2015 Onwards Only Selected Customers may prefer to receive their order in one go, others are happy to receive orders in part-shipments with the potential extra delivery charges that may incur. This new feature allows... Read More
Contract Invoicing - Two, Three and Four Yearly Invoicing
Viewed 1180 times since Wed, Sep 21, 2016
Premier Only Where the Sales Order Processing application accessory for Contract Processing is in use then when entering a contract the system allows for Monthly, Bi-Monthly, Quarterly, Six Monthly or Yearly invoicing.  This new feature... Read More
Additional Order Accumulation Items
Viewed 1101 times since Fri, Jun 19, 2020
Datafile 2019 and above, Diamond and Premier Only Existing options allow for the accumulation of three items from the sales/purchase order detail to the order header.  These items are used to accumulate values such as order quantity, order... Read More
Order Detail Entry - Change Order Status
Viewed 1095 times since Wed, Sep 21, 2016
Diamond and Premier Only  Sales Order Processing allows for the ability for operators to change the order status whilst amending the sales order lines. This feature has now been added into Bill of Materials. Selecting the STATUS option... Read More
Stock Check Warnings by Status
Viewed 1070 times since Wed, Sep 21, 2016
Diamond and Premier Only Within Sales Order Entry then the status of the order affects how options for stock check warnings are processed – mandatory stock warnings only applying to active orders with the warning as option for hold, forward and... Read More
Document Control Databases
Viewed 1052 times since Tue, Mar 3, 2020
When a document is processed against a Sales or Purchase Order a document reference number is assigned to that document – in the case of delivery notes this is used as the Delivery Note Reference, in the case of an invoice this is the Invoice No. ... Read More
Hyperlinks in PDF Documents
Viewed 1015 times since Tue, Mar 3, 2020
When using email for sending order acknowledgements, purchase orders, quotes and invoices in can be useful to imbed web links within the PDF document. This could include a link to your website, to a customer web portal or product specification detail... Read More
Sales and Purchase Order Change Logging
Viewed 993 times since Tue, Mar 3, 2020
In some systems sales and purchase orders can remain active for a long time – with changes to increase quantity, change price / discount, change stock codes and deleting lines occurring throughout.Where Sales Order Processing is configured for... Read More
Select Key List Items on Assembly Selection
Viewed 977 times since Wed, Sep 21, 2016
Diamond and Premier Only Sales Order Processing allows the ‘Quick Form’ tools to be based on the Stock Assembly and Component files. When using the <F4-Select> key to select the assembly the system had a pre-set list of items to be... Read More
Alternative Order Status Codes
Viewed 939 times since Fri, Jun 19, 2020
Datafile 2019 and above, Diamon and Premier only Each Sales or Purchase Order carries an Order Status. These are pre-set codes that categorise the orders as: Q Quotes A Active Order H Held Order F Forward Order D Deleted Order C Completed... Read More
Document Processing - Alternative Extra Text Items
Viewed 909 times since Fri, Jun 19, 2020
Datafile 2019 and above, Diamond and Premier Sales and Purchase Order Processing allow for two description lines per order detail as standard with the option to display/input extra description lines if required.  These lines are typically used... Read More
Increased Selective Order Header Screens
Viewed 859 times since Fri, Jun 19, 2020
Datafile 2019 and above Sales and Purchase Order Processing allow for the user of two order header entry screens when entering sales/purchase orders and one further selective screen that is only displayed when the order matches the required... Read More