What this screen is for
Purchase orders that customers running Laabam have sent straight to you, rather than by email or on paper. Nothing listed here is in your books: an order only becomes yours when you review and accept it, at which point it lands as a draft sales order that posts nothing and moves no stock. Each entry shows who sent it, its purchase order number and date, and flags a revision that replaces an earlier version the sender had already given you.
When to use it
Check it as you would a post tray — when a regular customer says they have sent an order, or as part of a routine look at the day's new work. Nothing can arrive here until your company has agreed to accept documents from that customer, which is settled under Settings, not on this screen.
What you see on this screen
This is a plain list rather than a table. Each row holds:
- The sender's name — the customer company that sent the order, in bold at the left.
- Purchase order number and date — beneath the name, with the sender's Laabam connect identifier alongside where one is known.
- Replaces an earlier version they sent — an amber line shown only on a revision. It means this is not the order you may already have read, and is worth re-reading rather than assuming it is unchanged.
- Amount and currency — on the right, with the number of lines on the order below it.
- Opened — a quiet note appearing once somebody at your company has opened the order.
- Open — the button that takes you to the review page, which is the only place an order becomes a sales order.
Filters and actions
There are no filters: the list holds only what is waiting, and an order leaves it once accepted or declined. Open is the single action, and everything else — matching the sender to a customer on your books, matching their products to yours, accepting or declining — happens on the review page.
When nothing is waiting, the empty state explains why rather than leaving a blank box: a customer cannot send you an order until your company has accepted a connection request from them. If you may manage connections, the message links straight to Settings, Connections, incoming; if not, it tells you to ask your company administrator.
Related
- Sales Orders — where an accepted order lands as a draft
- Sales Invoices