View Orders

Within the admin interface there are two places where orders can be viewed and modified (if necessary): the Orders page itself, and the Bulk Order Management page.
The features of both these two pages are discussed below.

Listing orders

The listing order page shows a list view of all orders placed through your shop(s). From here you can access details of individual orders, edit orders and track the status of their payment and shipping. For details of how to create a new order manually for your customer see here.

The page has filters which allow you to select which orders you want to view. You can filter by date, status or the email and name of the customer.

Distributor: This is the enterprise through who's shop the order was placed.

Completed at: This is the date that the order was placed.

Number: This is an arbitrarily assigned order number. An exclamation mark symbol with with word 'Note' to the left of it will show if the customer included a comment with their order at checkout. Hover you mouse above the exclamation mark to view the comment.

State:

• Complete- the customer has finished checkout
• Cancelled- if admin edits the order and chooses to ‘cancel it’
• Cart- The customer is in the process of shopping, but hasn’t checked out

Payment State:

• Balance Due- if it’s cash, or bank transfer or eftpos (ie all non automated payments), then the order will be ‘balance due’ by default, until admin members of the distributing enterprise manually mark that the payment has been received, at which point the payment state will change to 'Paid'.
• Paid- For automated payments (PayPal, Stripe, PIN for instance), the payment portal will automatically mark an order as 'paid' when it has been processed. Non-automated payments (cash, bank transfer etc) will also be marked as 'paid' when manually updated.
• Credit Owed- If someone has paid for their order, but then you edit their order, and remove an item, the cost of that item becomes ‘credit owed’.

Shipment state:

• Pending- When the payment state is ‘balance due’ the shipping state will be pending, meaning that until payment is received, shipping should not commence.
• Ready- When payment has been received (paid, or credit owed status) the shipping state becomes ‘ready’.
• Shipped- After delivery or collection, an order can be manually updated by shop/hub management (edit order) so that the shipment state becomes 'Shipped'.

Customer email:The customer’s contact email. A full list of customer emails can be downloaded in the ‘mailing list’report.

Total:The total value of the customer’s order

Changing the payment and shipping state of an order

On the right hand side of the listing view you can update the payment/shipping state of an order.

Click on the tick icon to indicate that payment has been received (this records full payments only).

Click on the road icon to indicate that the order has been shipped.

Editing an order

To the right of an order you will see a pen and paper icon. Click on this to access the order management page where you can edit, modify and cancel:

You can also access full information concerning an order by clicking on the order number (fourth column of the table).

This is what the order management page looks like:

Adding and removing products from an order

You can add a product to the order by selecting the variant you require from a drop down list of those available (at least 3 letters must be typed in to the field box 'Select Variant' for list of options to appear).
To remove a product from an order click the rubbish bin icon on the right hand side of the product.
You can also change the quantity of each item ordered. Remember to click the update and recalculate fees button to save changes (this will also update enterprise, shipping and payment method fees accordingly, where appropriate).

Additional options available under 'Actions'

• Resend Confirmation: If you have edited a customer's order, you may wish to resend them an updated order confirmation email.
• Send Invoice: This will automatically send the customer an invoice (in .pdf format) by email.

• Print Invoice: This will generate the invoice in the form of a pdf for printing.
• Cancel Order: Cancel the order

View customer details

Customer information (email, billing, shipping addresses and phone numbers) are accessible from the menu on the right of the page:

Modify an Order

Click on 'Adjustments' in the right hand menu (screen shot above). On this page you can add or subtract from the order total by selecting the + New Adjustment button.

You may wish to use this functionality to:

• grant a discount on an order if a product is damaged
• deduct credit owed to the customer from their total balance
• refund a customer (for more information about Refunds visit here.)

Record Partial Payment

Visit the 'Payments' page from the right hand menu in screen shot above to record partial payments.

Batch Print Invoices

To save time you can print multiple invoices at once (rather than visiting each order in turn and selecting Actions-> Print Invoice).
On the Listing Orders page check the box to the left of orders for which you would like to send an invoice. You can increase the number of orders per page from 15 to 100 and select all at once, if desired.
Then click 'Print Invoices' button to the top right of the table:

A Loading page will pop up while the invoices are generated. On completion you will be able to view (and download) a file containing all the invoices for the orders selected:

Bulk order management

We have learned above that the Listing Orders tab presents a table of the orders per customer. This page, on the other hand, details all the products that were purchased in your orders.
This functionality is useful for modifying multiple orders at once that may contain the same product (quantity change, product out of stock etc). The page looks like:

Start/End Date: You can filter to display all orders that were placed within a given window of time.

Producer: You can filter for a given producer. This can narrow down the display, if you’re only interested in one product, supplied by one producer.

Shop: You can filter according to the shop at which the order was placed.

Order Cycle: Perhaps the most useful filter, the order cycle filter, will display only those orders which were placed within a selected order cycle.

Quick Search: Before or after applying filters, you can narrow your search down even further by searching for a key word. This could be a name, product, hub, producer, date, order number…

Actions: You can select the check boxes of multiple orders (left hand column), to perform the same function to all of them, such as delete.

Columns: You can select which fields you do or do not want to be displayed in the table:

Examples of using Bulk Order Management:

Example 1: You have a stock shortage, and must reduce customer order quantities for a certain product.

In your current order cycle, customers placed orders for 20kg of tomatoes. Unfortunately there was a storm, and you were only able to harvest 10kg. You need to identify all customers who ordered tomatoes, and half their orders for tomatoes.

This can be done in bulk order management, as follows:

1. Filter according to the date range, or current order cycle.
2. Search for ‘tomatoes’. All orders for tomatoes within the date range/order cycle you selected will now display.
3. Click on the product ‘Tomatoes’ in the Product:Unit column.
4. A box will appear at the top of the page, showing the total quantity ordered (across the date range/order cycle you’ve selected).

You can then adjust the quantity (or delete products) of each unique order in the Quantity column. The Total Quantity Ordered in the box at the top will update automatically as you adjust orders.

Here, the amount of tomatoes allocated to each order has been reduced to meet the total available of 10kg:

The ‘Shared Resource’ checkbox

This checkbox allows you to make adjustments to all variants of the same product at once. For example, you may retail tomatoes in 1kg and 3kg bags. By selecting 'Shared Resource' you will be able to edit the quantities of both variants ordered at once.

Example 2: Updating the final weight of products.

When selling indivisible products such as legs of lamb, or whole pumpkins, you may not know the final weight and price of the product until after the customer has placed their order. (Read more here.) You can use Bulk Order Management to update the item’s exact weight once you have the product in front of you.

For the example of a 1kg fish:

1. Filter for the order cycle or date range of interest.
2. Search for the desired product
3. Make the Weight/Volume and Price columns visible.
4. Enter the actual weight of the fish that each customer will receive in the weight/volume column. The price will automatically recalculate based on this weight.
5. Click update.

A Customer’s view of their order

Your customers can view a list of their orders when they login to the Harvest To Order, and click on their account (see below).

Here your customers will be able to see the past orders and payments as well as a running balance at your shop (and any others on Harvest To Order where they have placed an order).