SOP-Dues

Focus Advanced Publishing Software Tutorial

Dues invoicing (Backorders)

Backorders are a standard system in the Publishing industry. Backorders are invoices lodged in the system waiting to be released.

On the stock window Backordered quantity shows the total of invoiced quantities lodged in the system yet to be released.

To release backorders (dues) whose restraining conditions have been removed,

On the Releasing Invoice… dialog, tick the Release Orders with their Dues box to release backorders which meet your specified criteria.
Your possible choices of criteria include the following.

You can use any combination of 9 different order selection methods by putting a tick in the box before a method you wish to use.

Input-Date: tick Use Input-Date: to select only orders with input date within the specified range
Required-By date: tick Use Reqd-By Date: to select only orders with Required-By date within the specified range
Order reference: tick Use Order Ref: to select only orders with order reference within the specified range
Account codes: tick Use Accounts: to select only orders with Account codes within the specified range
Stock codes: tick Use Stock: to select only orders with stock codes within the specified range
Sale type: tick Use Sales Type: to select only orders with the specified sale type
Location: tick Use Location: to select only orders with the specified location
Order Updated By: tick Orders Updated By: to select only orders updated by a specified user ID
Orders: Use Orders: tick to use selected orders as record selection criteria

Any of the following conditions will prevent the release of an order subject to user rights to override them;

In such case you will get a message similar to the one below. At this point the user is prompted by the system to choose a course of action:

To prevent the release of Backorders (Dues) for each Customer