Order Manager Overview

Order Search and Results screen

The Order Manager is the starting point from which order management begins. The following describes each section of the Order Manager:

Path:Orders

  1. Click on the Orders tab to access the Order Manager
  2. Click on the Launch Sales Order Interface to open the SOI for manual order entry.
  3. Select the desired filters in the Filter Orders section to search for orders. 
    1. The Filter Orders section appears at the left-hand side of the Order Manager and is divided into:
      • Order Attributes
        • Order Status - Order Status if the most important of the Order attributes and is used by Order Life Cycle Automation to automatically process orders through to shipping. See Order Statuses and Order Life Cycle Automation for more information on how they work together to manage your orders from capture to shipping. 
      • Order General Attributes
      • Order Billing Address
      • Order Shipping Address
      • Order Item Information
      • Zone Shipping Information
      • Shipping Information
      • Product General Attributes
      • Merchandise Hierarchy
      • Product Custom General Attributes
    2. A minimum of one search parameter is required to generate order search results. All filter selections are treated as AND operations: e.g. chosing Order Status and Product Id would return all Orders in that Order Status and containing at least one Order Item with that Product Id.

    3. It is recommended that before each search that you click on the Clear button since the system maintains the criteria from the previous search

  4. Use the search results to review and manage orders.
  5. Click on the Order number hyperlink to view and manage Order information. 

Order Management screen

Path Orders>Order number hyperlink

The Order Management screen is divided up into the following sections:

Order Management Tasks

Order items

Path: Orders>Order Items

Order Items screen is used to add/delete products, edit product configurations or edit or personalization options.(, duplicate products ,Update Quantities or Recalculate Unit Prices.

It is also used to add/delete gift certificates or value cards to the Order. 

Billing

Path: Orders>Billing

Billing screen is used to manage Billing Information, Payment information, Credit CardsPayments, Price Adjustments, Customer Credits, Gift Certificate and Value Cards redemptions and Promotions

Production

Path: Orders>Production

The Production screen is used to manage and/or view the fulfillment of an order item. If you are using Order Life Cycle Management, you can view the inventory status of an order item. If you are manually sourcing you can source inventory for an order item from the Production screen. 

Shipping

Path: Orders>Shipping

The Shipping screen is used to manage the Ship To information for each shipment:

Shipment Information including address, the Order Ship To (aka Order Shipping)  custom fields, Order Shipping Method, Order Shipping Price, Delayed Delivery Date, Estimated Shipping Date and Estimated Delivery Date. 

Order items information including Ship to Address and Shipping Method

All Shipments displays a list of all shipments created for this order. Clicking Add a Shipment to create a new shipment. Click the   to Delete a Shipment

Clicking the shipment Id hyperlink takes you to the Shipment Manager. Clicking the  to Update a Shipment.  

Order Invoice sections allows you to view and print the Order Invoice. 

Returns

Path: Orders>Returns

The Returns screen display all Returns created against the Orde and their status. Clicking the Return # hyperlink will take you to the Return Manager opened to that Return. 

Selected Launch New Return Wizard opens the Return Wizard at Step 2. Step 1 Find Order is defaulted to the active Order in the Order Manager.  You can proceed to create a Return using the Return Wizard. 

Clicking Issue Refund, when allowed, takes you to Step 1 - Refund Payment Method in the Return Wizard.

Tax Refund

The Tax Refund screen provides the ability to refund sale tax to customers that have a tax exempt certificate associated with their customer record.

Attachments

The Attachments screen provides the ability to attach files to an Order. Click Choose File to upload a file. 

Order Navigation

Click Previous or Next to move through the Matching Orders. 

View Documents

Document templates can be printed from the Ordered ItemsBillingShipping and Support sections of an order. When creating a document template, it can be made available to one of these sections by setting the Template Location, which defines the section in CORESense where a specific e-mail or document template is available. 

See the Email and Document Templates to learn how to set up documents.

Select the template from the drop dowb list and click View.

Order Information

Order Actions

Field

Description

Comments

Post different types public and private comments and codes. See Comments for more information. 

Void Order

Click this field to void the order. The following will occur:  Assigned inventory will be released. Empty shipments and boxes not yet shipped will be removed. Back-orders will be removed. Related Purchase Order Queue items will be removed. Items ordered on Just-In-Time Purchase Orders will not be allocated for this order when they are received. This will not credit or void payments.

View Emails

Opens Email Correspondence providing the ability to send/receive emails related the order. Any emails correspondence is also correlated to the customer record.  

Lock Order

Locking an order prevents users from modifying an order after it has shipped. This is important because under accrual accounting revenue is recognized when order items are shipped. Making changes after this point can cause integrity issues with your accounting data .

Orders are typically locked automatically when they are completely shipped. 

Users with the appropriate permissions can unlock orders and/or edit certain non-financial information. 

Workflow Audit

Displays a summary of workflow state changes including:

  • Date
  • User
  • Initial State
  • Target State
  • Shipment #

See Workflow Manager Overview for more information.

Order Audit

The status an order is placed into when order import completes without issue.

Order Summary information

Field

Example

Description
First Name: WESLEY Bill to First Name
Last Name: REYES Bill to Last Name
e-mail: TRES@TRES.COM Bill to Email
Primary Phone: 123-4567 Bill to Phone
Cust #: 9 Client Id
Order #: 34 Order Number
POS Order #: 2040-10 POS Order Number, if applicable. 
Cashier: coresense salesman user alias
Created: 2022-03-17 11:51:06 Order Creation Date
Payment Invoice Number: 6233585ece1f2366 Payment Invoice Number
Originating Channel: Point Of Sale Originating Sales Channel
Originating Brand: CORESense Originating Sales Brand
Workflow State: (No Shipments) Current Workflow state
Originated As Send Sale: Yes Indicates if Order orignated as a POS 'Send Sale'
Exchanged For Order: N/A If Order was created from an exchange on an Order, the original Order Number. 
Recurring Order #: No If Order is recurring. 
Total Ordered Units: 1 Total quantity of all order items on the order. 

Channel Information

Displays the Originating Channel. If Order is unlocked, the Originating Channel can be updated by change the Channel selection and clicking Update

Salesman Information

Salesman Information or Order custom fields which can be defined by the client and created by CORESense Customer Support. Fields can added, deleted and reordered. These fields can be used in Email and Document templates, 

Transaction Summary

Field

Description
COGS:  
Order Subtotal: Sum of order item prices including personalization chargese
Item Level Promotions Sum of Promotional Disccounts
Item Level Adjustments Sum of item level adjustments including price overrides
Item Subtotal:  
Order Level Promotions: Sum of Order Discounts
Order Level Adjustments: Sum of Order Adjustments
Sales Tax: Product and Shipping Sale Tax. If Avalara or TaxJar is used a hyperlink called Detail will be displayed after the Order is shipped. The link will bring up the taxes calculated and returned from the Avalara or TaxJar. 
Shipping: Shipping Price net of any Shipping Discounts
Grand Total: Item Subtotal - Order Level Promotions and Adjustments + Sales Tax + Shipping
Payments: Payments made against the Order. 
Balance: Grand Total - Payments
Returns Hyperlink to any Returns against the Order

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