Stand-alone or fully integrated with Maxton Sales Ledger and also optionally with the Maxton Stock Control and Maxton Job-costing modules.

Orders created in detail or in summary form on-screen using stock items, non-stock items or plain text lines. Includes automatic numbering, discounts, descriptions and settlement discount.

All order transactions may be viewed, modified, printed and or deleted up to the point when the goods are marked despatched. Stock Control and /or Job-costing is updated in real-time at this point (or by batch if required).

Orders may be searched for by customer, date or by 'key-word search'.

The sales invoice can be automatically created from the order, the system will then post an Invoice transaction directly on to the customers' account in the sales ledger to await payment. The original order is then (optionally) archived and removed from the list of current orders.

Order archive for all fulfilled or deleted orders. Any number of years including full order line-detail and account history. Searching facilities included.

Management reports for current orders including: outstanding orders report, nominal summary report, despatched goods not invoiced report and order transaction analysis.

Archived/fulfilled Orders may be searched for by customer, date or by 'key-word search'.

Optional special systems are available to allow all sales orders/despatches tagged with a particular job-cost code to be grouped together on one sales invoice.

Built-in self-audit and status report on file consistency. Automatic data-recovery in the event of hardware failure or power failure.

Optional integration with Stock Control, Job-Costing and General Ledger. Many other 'custom' links are available.

We have always designed our software systems with the User in mind. This has resulted in a very simple and easily understood 'menu' approach where the operator can easily see what the choices and options are without having to remember a great deal. All the sophisticated systems and flexibility have been built-in in the background where the user is not aware and hence not overwhelmed by complexity. This allows the system to be good for 'first-time' users who don't want to be confused, yet it has many features and flexibility only found in the 'high-end' packages costing many times more.

The Maxton Sales Order Processing system is designed as an 'open item' ledger including (optionally) an archive for each year and various other history files. All orders and credit-orders and the resulting invoices and credits are entered straight into their respective day-books where they show immediately on the customers' accounts etc. However, these new postings are held in a 'batch' where they can be modified or deleted at will. The 'batch' can cover any time period from one day to many months. This is especially helpful if a mistake is found in an entry, say a wrong date has been entered or an order was entered to the wrong customer's account. The correction can be made by editing the existing entry.