An order is a decision, and decisions are only as good as what is in front of the person making them. The GrowerLive order screen is built around that idea: instead of a bare grid of products and quantities, the person taking the order can see the context that changes what they should recommend.
Context on the screen, while it still matters
- Live on-hand for each product as the order is keyed
- Rack-fill projection, showing how the order is filling a truck as it is built
If you run retail programs, the same screen can show the store the order is going to:
- Its on-hand and stocking percentage
- A weather forecast for that store, because a cold, wet weekend changes how much bedding stock it can sell
- Recent scan history, so you can see what has actually been selling there
- Active promotions and ads running at that location
Each of these can be turned on or off per operation. If your team does not run promotions, that panel does not need to exist on your screen.
Straight through to the dock
Once an order exists, it moves. Purchase orders are managed in one place. Staged pulls group what needs to come out of the houses or the yard. Order preparation tracks what has actually been pulled. Rack pick tickets print for the crew doing the pulling. Bills of lading print for the driver. Credit memos handle what was short, damaged or didn’t make it. Finalize inventory reconciles the difference between what was planned and what shipped.
None of those steps require re-entering the order, and each one can be turned off for operations that do not work that way.
Let your customers place their own orders
Customers can be given their own scoped login and place orders directly, seeing only their own locations and their own pricing. One of the brokers we work with runs this way today — their customers enter orders, and the office reviews rather than transcribes.
It is the same order screen, the same validation, and the same inventory — which is precisely why it works. There is no second system to keep in sync.
Status that reflects your process
Order statuses are yours to define, and you choose which events move an order between them. Route assigned, order prepared, delivered, proof of delivery captured — you decide which of those changes a status and which do not. An event you have not configured simply does nothing, so nothing gets marked delivered on an assumption you never made.