Outbound Consignment Overview

The Outbound Consignments file is used to track artwork that is going out of your business on consignment, for example, tracking framed works going into a mall kiosk, into a developer's model home or a realtor's office. Use Outbound Consignments to track any artwork or product which is leaving your premises.

Caution: Not to be confused with tracking artwork left in your shop on consignment, instead see: Inbound Consignments.

Outbound Consignments

The Consignments file has a similar look and feel to the Invoices file: a form view, a list view, and a Data Entry screen.
Click the purple Data Entry button to add or change line items entries. PO# allows you to record a Purchase Order number.
It is designed to only work with the Products file, therefore you must enter each Product there first.
Records to whom the artwork was consigned (the consignee), what pieces were consigned, and updates the inventory in the Products file accordingly.
If artwork is returned, then it is returned to inventory. If it is sold, then it is posted to an invoice.

Terms Defined

Consignment, Outbound Consignment - the item (your item) located elsewhere
Consignee - the seller/location of the consigned item;
- a designer, an interior decorator, another company, a museum or art gallery, one of your own customers who has a piece of artwork out on approval, an art show, exhibit or craft sale, even your own company truck that travels around selling artwork to furniture stores.
Consigner - you, the owner of the item
Consignment Order - FrameReady's term for a group of items at one location for period of time
Leave On Hold - the Consignment Order remains inactive
Process Out - the Consignment Order is locked and your items are out
Check Items In - when your items return, update FrameReady