Creating material orders

Two ways to create an order: from scratch (custom), or by pulling from an existing quote.

Custom orders

Create custom orders from scratch. You can add your own components or items, images or flashing drawings, quantities, and header/footer templates.

This system is designed to reduce the need to transfer orders from digital to pen and paper, significantly speeding up the process and resulting in a cleaner, more professional order form. The supplier ends up with something that has fewer mistakes and less risk of wrong items being delivered.

Order from quote

The same as custom orders, but here you select an existing quote to become your order. When you select a quote, anything in your quote that you also allowed to be added to material orders will pre-populate the order form.

In some cases you may not need to change or edit the order form at all - just download and send to the supplier. But you can edit everything in the order if you need to:

• Flashings and images.
• Custom area-based components or items.
• Individual lengths and items.
• Header and footer.
• Layout changes from single to double column.
• Order of items.

Setting up

For a component to appear in an order, the Material orders option needs to be enabled on the component itself. See Creating a component.

Sending to your supplier

Related

• Supplier templates - re-usable header/footer layouts for different suppliers.
• Flashings - drawings and images to attach to components.