Standing Orders
From FloristWiki
Florists often receive orders from religious organizations and businesses that must be filled at regular intervals. Billing for these orders must also occur at regular intervals. To assist in this process, FTD Mercury allows these recurring, standing orders, to be created once as a standing order template. The contents of this template are used by FTD Mercury to automatically create the order at a predetermined interval, whether that be yearly, monthly, weekly, daily, or even on a custom schedule.
Standing order templates are not orders; they are used to create orders. Each template contains the customer information, recipient information, product information, delivery information, and the card message. This information is duplicated for each future recurring order in the series.
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FTD Mercury checks for orders to be created and printed nightly and after each reboot. If FTD Mercury cannot create an order from the standing order template, it will display a message with details.
