Feature
Sales and dispatch, kept separate on purpose
A sale in Bottle Flow is created first and dispatched second, and those are two different moments. Writing the order down doesn’t move a single case; only marking it dispatched does. That gap is deliberate, because it is the same gap between the order book and the yard on a real plant.
- Pending vs dispatched
- A sale sits as pending, exactly as created, until someone marks it dispatched. Finished stock and the customer’s outstanding balance don’t move until that happens.
- Multi-product line items
- One sale can carry several products and pack sizes at their own rates, rather than forcing a separate entry per product.
- Your own invoice numbering
- Invoices follow a prefix you choose, so they read as your business’s own sequence rather than a generic system number.
- Anything received at the time
- A sale can record a partial or full amount received on the spot, which posts as a collection against that customer immediately.
Questions
About sales management.
Why doesn’t creating a sale reduce my finished stock right away?
Because the goods haven’t left yet. A sale is recorded as pending the moment it’s created; finished stock only comes down, and the customer’s outstanding only goes up, once the sale is dispatched. This keeps the books matching what is actually in the yard.
Can I cancel a sale after it has been dispatched?
A posted sale is cancelled rather than deleted. Cancelling it reverses the stock and balance impact it made, and the cancellation stays in the record’s history.
Related
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