Creating orders in your ShopWired account
ShopWired provides the facility for you to create orders yourself through your ShopWired account.
You may choose to create orders within your ShopWired account, for example:
- If you receive an order over the telephone
- If you receive an order in person
Orders created through your ShopWired account are treated in the same way as any other order:
- The customer receives an order confirmation email
- When tracking stock, stock is deducted from products within the order
- The order appears alongside all other orders for you to manage
Creating an order
- Navigate to Orders > Create order
Customer details
- If the customer already exists on your ShopWired account, you can select the record from the available list
- Search for a customer by surname, postcode, or email address
- Once you've located the customer record, select it from the list
- You can change the
accepts marketing
setting for the customer here, which will update the customer record
- If the customer doesn't already exist, select
create a new customer
and enter their details- Once the order is created, a new customer record will be created
- If the customer has accepted to receive marketing communications, select the
accepts marketing
setting
- If the shipping details are different from the billing details, select the Shipping details tab and configure the shipping information for the order
Products ordered
- Use the option to select each product in the order
- You can add out-of-stock products to an order
- The current stock quantity is displayed
- You cannot add to an order (inactive products will not appear in the list)
- Select and configure any additional options for the product; only product variations are required
- Use the quantity selection to select the desired quantity
- Select
add to order
to add the product to the order - You can edit the price of a product in an order by selecting the edit option next to the price
- Prices are either including or excluding VAT depending on your
- When selecting a trade customer, any trade price configured for the selected customer and product/variation is automatically applied
Delivery
- Select whether delivery is
free of charge
orpaid
- When selecting
paid
, select the delivery country and delivery rate - Select the
custom delivery rate
option to configure a bespoke delivery rate just for this order - When configuring a bespoke delivery rate, this is not stored on your ShopWired account
- You can only select delivery rates applicable to the products in the order
- When selecting a trade customer and using wholesale delivery, wholesale delivery pricing is automatically applied
- When selecting
- If the customer has requested a specific delivery date, specify one using the Delivery date tab
Comments and custom fields
- Add any comments for the order in the Comments setting; comments added will be displayed to your customer on the order confirmation email, invoice PDF, and within their customer account on your website
- When using order custom fields, you can configure any custom field data to add to the order
Voucher codes and gift cards
- If you want to apply a voucher code and/or a gift card to the order, enter the code here
- You can only apply a single voucher code to an order
- Products can only be affected by a single discount, so the voucher code may not apply to products that have already been subject to another type of discount, read more here
Charging VAT
- Whether or not VAT is charged on the order will depend on the selected
- You can use the
charge VAT
anddon't charge VAT
options to add/remove VAT from the order - If you are using the disability VAT relief feature, select
enable VAT relief
for VAT to be removed from eligible products in the order- When selecting this option, it's advised to add information to the Order comments section to detail why VAT relief was applied
Order payment
- Select whether or not the customer has paid for the order:
- Select
this order is paid
to send the customer the Order confirmation email and mark the order status as paid - Select
this order is unpaid
to send the customer the Offline order confirmation email and mark the order status as awaiting payment
- Select
Sales tax
- If your ShopWired account is registered in the US, select the
calculate sales tax
option to calculate any sales tax applicable to the order
Creating the order
- Select the
create order
option to create the order. A confirmation message will be displayed, and the order will appear on the orders page within your ShopWired account
Taking payment
Taking payment
When you create an order through your ShopWired account, depending on the payment gateway you are using, you may be prompted to enter the customer's card details to take payment through the payment gateway connected to their ShopWired account.
You can choose to skip this process (if you are receiving payment through a different method) by selecting the proceed without payment
option.
This facility is available when using one of the following payment gateways:
- ShopWired Payments
- Barclaycard API
- Opayo Direct
- Opayo Form
- Opayo Hosted
- Stripe
- Windcave
3D Secure authentication
Your payment gateway will automatically ask the cardholder's issuing bank for a by telling the bank that the transaction is a MOTO (mail order/telephone order) transaction.
The ultimate decision of whether to grant an exemption is with the cardholder's issuing bank, who may ultimately decide to decline the transaction.