Ship Hold

Action: SHIPHOLD

Overview

Ship Hold is a production feature to mark orders as being complete and awaiting shipping. Typically, service centers complete rental orders in no particularly store/account order fashion Even when rental orders are sorted by store/account at the beginning of production not all orders can be assembled in a timely manner due to inventory availability or marrying processes. As a result most orders randomly complete assembly. So WinTPS provides a SHIP HOLD function to allow the random orders to be electronically resorted for shipping.

The user would select the Ship Hold function and scan orders into it's grid as each complete assembly. The last order number scanned is displayed for operator reference. Once the orders are scanned and production completed for the period, the operator would then pack for commercial shipping or load onto a delivery van. Once a cut-off for a particular shipping method is reached, a operator would select within the Ship Hold form the store/account(s) for that shipping method and Ship them. ProfitSystem would create a packing slip for each store/account for the orders processed and a invoice when appropriate. Finally it would mark each order as shipped.

Orders may be manually added or removed from Ship Hold via the Main Menu-> Order tab-> Ship Hold button.

Operation

Scan or enter the order number in the Order Number field to have it marked for Ship Hold. Once orders are in Ship Hold they may be selected by store/account and shipping method for shipping.

For wholesale accounts that are COD terms, the system displays the invoice total of the orders being shipped. This easily allows for COD amounts to be entered in the shipping system software. Or if the account has a credit card on file allow the card may be charged. When card is declined go back to shipping form, if approved mark orders shipped. With integrated shipping active, the shipping waybill appears with Ship to auto completed. Enter weight, service and any other details then receive the shipping label and packing slip/invoice. The tracking number will automatically be transferred back to each rental order shipped.

Grid

Select? checkbox... Checked, selects that account and ship method for order display or shipping.

Pickup... The store/account the order is being shipped to (the order's pickup location)

Ship Method... The ship method assigned to the order

Orders... Number of orders marked Ship Hold for the store/account ship method.

Buttons

Check all... Checks the select checkbox for all store/accounts for all ship methods.

UnCheck all... Clears (UnChecks) the select checkbox for all store/accounts for all ship methods.

View Orders... Displays a list of orders marked for Ship Hold for the highlighted store/account and ship method row within the grid.

Ship Orders... Ships all the orders

Ok... Exits the form and returns to previous screen.