Sales orders
A confirmed customer commitment: what to ship and invoice, tracked line by line.
A sales order is a confirmed commitment to deliver items to a customer. It may begin as a , or be entered directly; either way it's the document the rest of fulfillment keys off: , , and any make-to-order jobs all trace back to its lines.
The order line is where fulfillment is scored. Each line tracks how much was sold against how much has shipped and how much has been invoiced, and it stays open until both are complete, which is what lets one order be delivered and billed in batches without losing the remainder.
Line fields
A line carries a type that sets what it sells: Part, Service, Material, Tool, or Consumable for the five item kinds, plus Fixed Asset and Comment (a non-charged note line).
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The stored status reflects what's outstanding, and the order list shows a computed display status on top of it.
The order list can read In Progress even while the stored status is To Ship and Invoice — that's the display status reflecting a line whose jobs aren't finished yet. The stored status still drives the flow.