Customer Order Messages - Cruise
The Messages screen lets Corporate users create and save messages to be printed on customer orders as they are submitted. Messages can be designated for particular customers and/or departments and they will automatically print on all applicable Picklist and Invoice documents, including Duplicates. This applies to both PDF and Excel outputs.
Note: This screen is available only when logged into Corporate. These messages do NOT appear on the customer order screen, only on the printed order documents.
- From the Sales menu, click Messages.
- The message list can be filtered by Begin Date and/or End Date, and to display ‘Active’ (default), ‘Inactive’, or ‘All’ messages. The user can check the box in the header of the Active column to activate or deactivate all messages.
- Click the Plus (Create Message) icon to create a new message or click a Message Name hyperlink to open and edit an existing message
- Enter/edit the Message Name, Begin Date and End Date for the message.
- Check the Active box to activate or deactivate a message,
- Enter the Message Text (up to 2000 characters). Pressing the "Enter" key will insert a hard line break.
- On the Customer tab, select the customer(s) that should see this message on their orders. To select a customer, check the box for a customerin the "Available Customers" list, then click the < arrow to move it to the "Selected Customers" list. If applicable, click the << button to add all customers. This will apply to all orders for this customer, regardless of the user placing the order.
- On the Departments tab, select the department(s) whose orders should have messages printed on them. check the box for a user in the "Available Departments" list, then click the < arrow to move it to the "Selected Departments" list. If applicable, click the << button to add all departments. This will apply to all orders placed for this department, regardless of the customer receiving the order.
- To print a report of the message details, click Print
- When finished, click Save to close the Message Details window.
- To print a report of all of the displayed messages, click the Printer (Export) icon.
- Click Cancel to close the Messages pop-up.