The Modify Order Screen is used to make changes to orders once they have been generated. It is opened from the menu command Orders |Modify. It displays the last created order but earlier orders can be viewed by clicking on the arrows in the VCR like control.
The lines in the order are initially in the order of generation, but can be re-sequenced by pressing the yield order or department buttons.
Yield order is useful if it is necessary to delete items because of cash constraints.
Department order is useful for stock level checking and forms a useful picking order for cash and carry.
The order can be printed out onto A4 paper using the Print button; if a receipt printer is available, then a condensed form of the order can be printed on the receipt printer by pressing the 'F10' key. If any errors are found in the stock levels, double click on the line in error in the Shelf column. The value will be highlighted (go blue with normal colour schemes) and then the corrected value can be typed in the space, followed by the Enter key.



By double clicking the No:' column, the number of cases ordered can be modified by over-typing.
Clicking on any other column in a row will highlight the whole row. This row can then be deleted by pressing delete on the keyboard. A similar effect is achieved by right clicking the mouse and selecting Delete, by left clicking with the mouse. There are also options on the right-click (context) menu for Stop, Stop supplier and Modify product. Selecting Stop will not only delete the selected product but will ensure that it will not be ordered again. Selecting Stop supplier will only stop the product being supplied by the supplier used for generating the order, but not by other suppliers. These two options can be used for multiple lines - just select with the mouse and drag down to the last one of the group to be selected, and then release the mouse button. A group of products will be highlighted. Selecting modify product allows any errors in the product description to be corrected when they are noticed.
A further option on the right-click menu is Purchases. Selecting this will display a table of purchases, with details of prices paid, case sizes and retail prices. Retail price is significant because some packs will refer to price-marked products, whose wholesale price is lower.
Grouped with this option is the Add product menu selection. Selecting this option will bring up a Select product dialog. A product bar code may then be scanned or the 'Alpha lookup' screen used. The item is then added to the order. The yield is set to arbitrarily to 10,000. If the product has not been supplied before by the selected supplier, the default case size and margins will be used.
The final entry on the right-click menu is memo. Selecting this brings up a Memo Form. Notes may be typed in here, which will appear on the full printed order. Press Quit to save the memo and return to the order. There is also a Memo option on the Supplier Modify form which will allow notes to be put onto every order for that supplier.
The Total cost box shows the cost of the order including any sales tax.
The only remaining control is Quit which is self-explanatory. The order is not lost when it is pressed. The Escape key has the same effect. If all of the lines in an order are deleted, the order header is deleted when pressing Quit or moving to a different order. Past orders may be examined by using the vcr type control.

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