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An travels a predictable path from the moment a customer commits to buy until the goods ship and the money is collected. This page is the mental model for that journey — the task detail lives in the Orders module guide. This builds on the style-centric model: an order runs a style, it does not contain one.

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The state progression

An order moves forward one stage at a time. Each stage is reached when a specific thing happens — you rarely set the state by hand; the work you do advances it. 
Draft ──▶ Confirmed ──▶ In production ──▶ Shipped ──▶ Invoiced ──▶ Paid
  │            │              │               │            │          │
new order   customer      production       goods       invoice     payment
 entered    commits to    starts on the    leave the   sent to     received
            the order     factory floor    factory     customer    in full
  • Draft — the order exists but isn’t committed. You’re still adding styles, colorways, quantities, and terms.
  • Confirmed — the customer has committed. Confirmation is the gate that unlocks downstream production: manufacturing orders can be issued, and factory orders and purchase orders can be raised against it.
  • In production — work is on the factory floor. Material receipts, the production timeline, and quality steps all happen here.
  • Shipped — finished goods have left the factory toward the customer.
  • Invoiced — the commercial invoice has been sent for what shipped.
  • Paid — the customer’s payment has been received in full.
Progress through these stages is never silent: the tracks where each order stands and surfaces anything at risk of missing the ship date.

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What the order owns

An order owns the commercial commitment, not the product definition:
  • the customer, season, currency, and payment terms,
  • the line-up of styles, their colorways, sizes, and quantities for this order,
  • the ship date, , and trade term,
  • and the order total, against which payment progress is tracked.
What it does not own is the product itself. The , , and specifications belong to the . Each order keeps its own version of those documents, so two orders on the same style never disturb each other.

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How the order connects

The order sits in the middle of a chain that runs both ways: One order, one clear thread from commitment to cash.