Automate Order Processing: A Smarter Way to Run Your Business

If you know what it feels like to spend time processing orders, updating stock spreadsheets, and emailing invoices, you’ll know how quickly admin can take over. But don’t worry…automation is here to save the day.

What Automating Order Processing Actually Means

In simple terms, it’s a system that takes care of the admin between an order being placed and it being delivered, with figures reporting it can improve businesses efficiency by 15% to 40%.

No retyping and double checking the same details into multiple systems. No wondering if the warehouse or finance team knows about the latest order. Everything flows through automatically, from sales to stock to invoicing - without you having to nudge it along.

Why It’s Worth Doing

1. **It Frees Up Your Team**
Instead of spending hours on admin, your team can focus on customer relationships, product quality, or finding new sales opportunities.

2. **You Can Move Faster**
An order can be received from email, EDI, WhatsApp and more…and reach the warehouse in seconds, which means it gets packed and sent sooner.

3. **Fewer Mistakes**
When there’s no manual data entry, there’s less chance of sending the wrong item, quantity, or address.

4. **Everyone Knows What’s Going On**
Stock levels, order status, delivery updates - they’re all live, automated and accessible to the people who need them.

Actions You Can Automate Straight Away

📦 Process orders from start to finish, including updating sales data and stock levels in real time.
🧾 Create and send invoices the moment an order is complete, with just a click.
🔄 Update customers on their order without lifting a finger.
🚚 Generate delivery and pick notes.
📊 Keep your accounts team and accounting software up to date automatically.

How Platter Helps

Platter is designed to make order processing straightforward. That means our platform easily fits around your current systems and ways of working, plugging in the gaps and helping to connect the dots.

Final Thought

Automating order processing isn’t about taking control away - it’s about making the process work without you having to push it along every step of the way. Once you’ve set it up, orders run through like clockwork, and you can spend your time on the parts of the business that matter most.

👉 Find out how Platter can help: https://weareplatter.com