I’m back at this issue after a brief absence on other projects. I have not contacted your sales department yet, but above you mentioned that you have a “product” for Order Entry. Does that mean you have something created, but not advertized to the masses?

I have already added a custom item field for item wieght and have documented each of the item wieghts we sell. I have also added the wieght column to the visible interface of the Sales Order.

Now I am simply lacking the extended weight column and the total weight field on the Sales Order for the gals to use when taking an order.

Does your current product have this feature already or would you need to add it? If you would need to add it, can you give me a budgetary idea of the price and time?

Kind Regards,

Douglas Baer
White Cove Consulting

If you can contact our sales department directly we have other possible solutions, depending on your exact needs, on a custom basis. We have an order entry product that will give you totals as you enter the order, on screen. We have done modifications to this for a customer where the price varies as the total count increases, in several variations (per line, or even per order). But these are done on a custom basis, rather than off the shelf. Contact our sales department and describe what you need…

Thank you for a very helpful blog site. I am working for a client that needs the weight on sales orders, etc. and have reviewed your product, the overview and tutorial.

Based on my observation, it appears you must load the SO data first and then “process” the SO to see the calculated total weight.

Our issue: The order takers add to an order live, line-by-line as the customer identifies the SKU’s they want. When the customer gets to a certain weight, they can jump to a new price level. Having to “process” the order every few lines to calculate the total weight seems cumbersome.

Am I interpreting the process correctly?

For calculating shipping weights, a final “processing” will work fine, but I was hoping for a real time calculation.

Any thoughts?

Again, thanks for the good work here!

Douglas Baer