Order Management
You can see the order details of your orders after logging into Partner Commerce. The Orders home page or My Orders page lists all the orders that you are working with for the selected account. The orders list shows the orders with the following details:
- Name
- Price List
- Bill To account
- Ship To account
- Order Amount
- Order creation date
- Order renewal date
From the My Orders page, you can:
- Select and view the details of an order
- Search an order
- View the price list and bill to and ship to account of the order
Filtering Order
- Go to the My Orders page.
- From the search bar in the type, type and search for the order using the order name.
You will see a list of filtered orders.
View Order Details
The order details page displays the order status and the actions you can take based on each status, as described in the table below:
|
Order Status |
Actions |
|---|---|
|
Draft |
Confirm, Generate |
|
Generated |
Confirm, Present Order |
|
Presented |
Confirm |
|
Pending, In Fulfillment - Not Paid |
Make Payment |
|
Pending, In Fulfillment - Paid |
N/A |
|
In Amendment |
Discard Changes Confirm Changes |
As a Partner Sales Representative or Order Desk User, you can create an order on behalf of a customer to help them in ordering products or services. You can create an order from the catalog page.
Creating Order
You will see a success confirmation popup. To see more information about the order, click VIEW YOUR ORDER. This opens the Order details page.
Viewing Order
- Log in to the Partner Commerce portal.
- From the left navigation, click My Orders.
- From the orders list click the Order Number link to view the details of the order.
The order details page shows the order information arranged in the following tabs:
- Order Summary
- Line Items
- Comments
- Attachments
The order details page also has a progress bar on the top of the page. This progress bar shows the current phase of the order based on the order status. The phases of the progress bar are color coded. The color and their status are described as follows:
- Blue color shows that the phase is incomplete.
- Green color shows that the phase is completed.
- Grey color shows that is phase has not yet started and is upcoming.
Generating Order
- From the order details page, click Generate Order.
- In the Generate Order dialog box, select the Template from the drop-down list.
- Select the Output File Format of the order document from the drop-down list. You can choose either PDF or DOC.
- Click Generate.
This generates an order document and sends an order generation notification email to the associated partner and customer. You will also see a notification in the Order Details page. The generated order document can be also be viewed from the Attachments tab of the details page. To open the generated order document, you must login to Salesforce.
Presenting Order
- From the order details page, click Present Order.
- In the Present Order dialog box, the Send Order To field is already populated with the email address of the primary contact. This field is not editable.
- Enter the email addresses of the customers to be copied in the Cc field.
- Click Present.
The order is sent to the customer and they receive an email notification. The order status changes from Generated to Presented.
If you confirm an order right after drafting it, the document is automatically generated and present and directly reaches the Pending state.
Orders Confirmation
As a partner, when a customer places an order or you place an order on behalf of a customer, you must confirm it to sync it with the cart and create the order line items. You can confirm an order which is in any of these three states: Draft, Generated and Presented.
You can navigate to the order details page and click Confirm Order.
On confirmation, the order status changes from Draft to Pending. When an order is confirmed it is automatically generated and presented. After confirmation is complete, the customer also receives an email notification
Making Payment for Order
After presenting an order to a customer, you can confirm the order. Without confirming the order you cannot make payment for that order.
Prerequisite:
- The order must be confirmed and its status must be Pending.
After the payment is completed, the Payment Status on the order details page changes from Pending to Processed.
