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Order Entry and Processing


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To enter an order

  1. Under Order Processing, check the shipping address for your order. If you want to change it, select it in the Select New Address field.
  2. Click Order Entry to go to the Order Entry page.
  3. Type an identification code for the order in the Cart ID field. This field is optional.
  4. In the Catalog pane, click the product category you want. A Catalog Item List opens, which shows the items in the product category.

    To view details about an item, click the link for the item ID. A window appears with the following information, if available: a picture of the item, an item description, and quantity price breaks. 

    Note: To go back to a product category you viewed earlier, click the category name in the Catalog pane. Do not click Back on your browser.
     
  5. To place the selected item in your shopping cart, click Add. To order more than one of the item, type the number of items in the Quantity field in the shopping cart; or click the Add button multiple times to increase the quantity. The cart summary and totals are updated automatically.
  6. To process and complete your order, click Checkout. To save your order without checking out, click Update.

To check out or process an order

  1. Click Checkout.
  2. Review your order for accuracy. To make changes to the order, click Return to Order Entry.
  3. Type an entry in the Purchase Order Number field.
  4. Select a requested delivery date.
  5. Enter a comment, if needed, for the order.
  6. Click Submit Order. An Order Confirmation page appears with your confirmation number.
  7. Click Print to print a reference copy of the order.

To save an order without checking out

If you must close your browser before completing an order, click Update in the Shopping Cart pane. This saves and updates the order and adds it to the Pending Orders page. This feature is useful when supervisor approval is needed to process an order.

Showing and Hiding Panes


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When entering orders, you may want to hide some panes to maximize the space in the browser window. When you hide a pane, the other panes resize to fit the browser window.

Showing and hiding panes

Click the Hide or Show button; or click X in the upper right corner of the pane.

Showing and hiding the Customer Task Menu

Click the arrow button to hide or show the menu. Click the thumbtack icon to toggle autohide. When autohide is active, the Customer Task Menu is hidden automatically when you move the cursor out of the Customer Task Menu pane. Move the cursor over the hidden pane to display the Customer Task Menu.

Pending Orders


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The Pending Orders pane, which can be viewed only by users with supervisor access, lists saved orders that have not gone to checkout.

To view pending orders

Under Order Processing, click Pending Orders. The Pending Orders page lists all orders you have placed. If you are a supervisor, the page lists orders from all buyers in your company that have not been checked out. If the order is correct, a Checkout button appears to the left of the order.

To view the details of an order

Click a line in the pending orders list. If an order has errors, the person who entered it must correct it before it can be sent to checkout.

To process a pending order

When the order is ready to process, click Checkout. To process an order, the supervisor's transaction limit must be greater than the order amount.

Transaction Inquiry


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If you have access rights to perform inquiries, you can view order status, shipments, invoices, and payments.

To search for transactions

When you click a link under Transaction Inquiry, you go to a page where you can search for the type of transactions you selected. To view all of the transactions, leave all of the Condition fields set to All and Criteria fields blank. Then, click Search.

To narrow the list by entering search criteria, do the following:

  1. In the Condition field for the attribute you want to use, select the type of matching, such as All, Equals, or <=.
  2. In the corresponding Criteria field, type the characters you want to use.
  3. Click Search. The list shows the transactions that meet the criteria you set.

To view details for a transaction

You can view details for the transactions in the following ways:

Add/Update Buyers


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Users with administrator rights can create and delete buyers and maintain buyer information, including access rights and transaction limits. If you are not an administrator, you can view and change only your own buyer information.

To create a new buyer

  1. Under User Maintenance, click Add/Update Buyer. The Buyer Maintenance page appears.
  2. Verify that the Select User Login Name field is set to Create New Buyer.
  3. Complete the information for the new buyer. Red asterisks indicate required fields. Passwords are case sensitive. If the company's Web site server is case sensitive, the user name will also be case sensitive.
  4. Click Save. This grants the buyer access to the Web site.

To modify buyer information or delete an existing buyer

In the Select User Login Name field, select the login name of the buyer you want to change and click Select.

Frequently Asked Questions


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Q - Why am I unable to log onto the Web site?

A - Verify that you are using the correct user name and password. Passwords are case sensitive. Your user name may also be case sensitive, depending on the type of server used.

Q - Why am I unable to process my order?

A - To process an order, whether it is your own or another buyer’s, the order amount must be less than your transaction limit. Your transaction limit is defined in Buyer Maintenance by your administrator and is the maximum dollar amount that you can process.

Q - How do I cancel my order?

A - Orders cannot be cancelled from the Web site. Contact your company representative for information.

Q - Why am I returned to the Home page when I click the Refresh button on my browser?

A - The browser’s Refresh button reloads the Home page. To refresh a particular pane, right-click in the pane and select Refresh from the menu that appears.

Q - Why am I returned to the Login page when I leave the Shopping Cart page open for a while?

A - The Web site keeps your session open only when there is current activity. The session time is set on the Web site server, and can be set to keep the Web site open indefinitely.

Support


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For more information on using this Web site, contact your company representative.