Between the quote and the bill sits the order: what the customer has actually committed to, recorded before anything leaves the shelf.
When goods go out the same day, a bill is enough. When they do not — made to order, out of stock, delivered next week — something has to hold what was agreed, at the rates that were agreed, until it can be billed.
An order does that, and it is the document everyone looks at meanwhile: what is pending, for whom, at what price. When the goods go, it becomes the invoice without the lines being typed again.
Party, items, quantities and the agreed rates.
It sits as pending until the goods are ready.
With a challan where the bill follows later.
The order becomes the invoice, lines carried across.
The paperwork either side of the bill: quotations and orders before it, returns and notes after it, on both the selling and the buying side. Each document carries over to the next, so an accepted quote becomes an order or an invoice without being typed again.
Trades that quote before they deliver live in this area — the quote goes out, the order confirms it, the challan moves the goods, and the invoice closes it.
What comes before the order and what it turns into.
Sales order item · Sales order summary · Quotes general · Sales day book
Every feature, by plan →Stock moves when the goods are billed or sent out, not when the order is taken.
Yes — the order reports show what has been ordered against what has been billed, by item and in summary.
Yes, with its lines carried across rather than typed again.
What was agreed stays agreed until the goods are ready to go.
