Order entry status codes have several purposes.
They determine which customers can charge purchases: a status code of 1 – 9 or A – F indicates that a customer can only make cash or COD purchases. A status code of G – Z lets customers charge.
You can use status codes to group customers for reporting purposes; for example, you can specify that customers with certain status codes receive Monthly Usage or Quarterly Usage reports.
Status codes also identify groups of customers for a number of other purposes, including which customers to keep service quality statistics on, which customers to keep extended sales history for, which customers to exempt from finance charges, and so forth.
Except for the charge vs. cash or COD feature, you have complete freedom to assign order entry status codes in any way that suits your business.
For a complete list of places in eNsite
where you use order entry status codes to identify groups of customers, see
Book I: Customers, Vendors, and Salespersons.