Feature · Sales orders

From the barto the Xero invoice.

Reps build line-item orders on their phone during the visit, priced with that account's trading terms and GST as each line is added. Confirm it, and it pushes to Xero as the invoice with an email to your accounts team, before the rep is back in the van.

Sales orders in Lemmonade: line-item orders with status, totals and Xero invoice state

The order is the easy part. What happens after it is not.

Getting a yes at the bar has never been the bottleneck. The bottleneck is everything between the yes and the invoice: the notebook entry, the price check back at the office, the re-key into accounting, and the days that pass while all of that happens.

Double entry

An order written down in the field gets typed again at a desk. Every re-key is a delay, and every delay is a chance for the detail to drift.

Pricing lives in someone's head

Trading terms, volume deals and account-specific pricing that only the senior rep knows are not a pricing strategy. They are a single point of failure.

The gap between yes and invoice

The longer an agreed order sits unbilled, the longer the cash cycle runs. Orders that invoice themselves close that gap to minutes.

How an order becomes an invoice.

One flow, from the shelf conversation to the books, with pricing decided on the device and nothing re-keyed.

  1. 1

    Build the order in the visit

    Reps add line items on mobile while they are standing in the venue. Products, quantities and case configurations come from your catalogue.

  2. 2

    Pricing is evaluated on the device

    Each line is priced with that connection's trading terms and any applicable deals, GST included, as it is added. The total the customer agrees to is the total that gets billed.

  3. 3

    Confirm, and it is in Xero

    A confirmed order pushes to Xero as the invoice, with an order email to your accounts team at the same time. Status flows back as it changes.

  4. 4

    No signal, no problem

    Orders built offline queue on the device and sync when the rep is back in range, Xero push included.

A Lemmonade sales order with priced line items and totals

What makes it different.

Priced with trading terms, not a PDF

The pricing engine evaluates each account's terms per line, on the device. Reps quote the right price without a phone call back to the office.

GST right, per line

Tax is built into every line as it is added, so the field total and the invoice total are the same number.

Offline all the way through

The order does not need a connection to be built or priced. It queues and syncs, including the Xero push, when coverage returns.

Draft to invoice without a desk

The whole flow runs from the rep's phone. Nobody types the order twice, and accounts hears about it by email, not by chasing.

Your accounts team stops chasing paper.

For owners, this is the money feature. Orders stop living in notebooks and text messages, invoices go out the same day the order is taken, and the numbers in Xero are the numbers from the field, untouched by hand.
  • Invoices raised the day the order is taken
  • Order email lands with accounts automatically
  • Trading terms applied consistently across every rep
  • Order and invoice status visible against the account
  • Reporting runs on real order data, not reconstructions
Lemmonade integrations: Google Workspace connected and HubSpot imports ready

Keep your production software.

Lemmonade runs everything customer-facing, from the route to the visit to the order to the Xero invoice, and hands the numbers to the rest of your stack. Xero sync is two-way and live today; Unleashed, Ordermentum and CartonCloud are on the way.
  • Two-way Xero sync, live today
  • Order email to your accounts team
  • Status flows back as invoices change
  • Products and price lists imported with you, free
  • Unleashed and Ordermentum on the way

Common questions. Straight answers.

Watch an order become an invoice.

Book a 30-minute walkthrough and we will run a real order end to end: built on a phone, priced with trading terms, landing in Xero.

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