The moment you add products & services to your platform, you will start receiving orders from customers on your admin interface.
Your admin interface lets you very clearly manage orders.
▶︎ Quick path: E-Commerce > Orders
Plan of the article
How to manage an incoming order
How to manage an order with a subscription
How to manage an order that includes a "by-quote" service
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1 - How to manage an incoming order
All new orders sit in your "Inbox" and have a "Pending" status
Start by marking your order as processing or start chatting with customer (this will auto change order status to processing)
Add an action label if needed: Only visible by your team
Add an internal note if needed: Only visible by your team
Chat with customer if you need additional information
Check payment method is correct - Change if needed
Click on confirm or decline
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2 - How to manage an order with a subscription
When you receive an order, you will clearly see if there is a linked plan to it and that customer will be charged on a recurring basis.
Process the order as described above.
The moment you confirm such order , it creates a "Subscription".
All subscriptions can be found under "Subscriptions" (Orders > Subscriptions)
You can filter by:
Active: All live subscriptions
Scheduled in future: The subscription has not started yet
Past due: This means payment failed
Inactive: This groups both cancelled and stopped subscriptions
From the subscription page, you can change the associated plan (let's say a customer upgrades to a more premium plan) or cancel the subscription.
You can also track all payments collected to date.
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3 - How to manage an order that includes a "by-quote" service
Blackbell lets you set up "by quote" products / services. For these, customers can customize their orders: selected options... Upon reception of the order, you can send a precise quote that they can validate from their app.
Here is how to send a quote
Click on "send price proposal"
Enter price
Send price
The order will now be under Orders > Processing > Waiting Reply with label "waiting reply"
Here is what happens for your customer:
Customer receives an email notifying him about the price proposal. He is invited to log in to his app to approve or reject the proposal.
By logging in to his app, customer can approve or reject the price proposal from the "Chat" section of the order
Once proposal is approved (or rejected), you'll receive an email so you can confirm (or decline) the order.
Order will appear under "Inbox" with 1 message unread. You'll read if quote has been approved or declined in the chat section.
If approved, price is updated, and you can confirm or decline the order as normal
If payment method is "online, upon confirmation of order, the price approved by customer will be automatically charged
If needed, you can manually cancel quote and send a new one
Note
We let you process a " by quote" order without sending quote digitally. (as explained above). However, this is not recommended as it won't be clear to customer and the order won't be added to your analytics.