An order is the customer's commercial confirmation: the document with price list, discounts, VAT and terms that formalizes the purchase or delivery commitment. In Mokapen an order is not a PDF filed in a shared folder. It is a live CRM record, linked to the contact and company, tracked in the timeline, syncable with invoicing software and ready to become an e-invoice without re-entering line items.
This guide walks you through daily use: creating or generating an order from an accepted quote, managing fulfillment with the operational pipeline, sending the document to the customer, syncing with Fatture in Cloud and knowing where every job stands at all times. Automatic rules for discounts and shipping have dedicated guides; pipeline and templates remain in the final sections.
The orders area is in Sales → Orders. It requires a suitable Premium plan with the Sales app active and tax rates configured at organization level (once, in Settings → Sales → Taxes).
Before technical details, it helps to see where an order sits in the sales flow — that is what makes Mokapen work for you instead of against you.
In the typical path, a customer enters as a contact (website form, trade show, referral). When a real opportunity arises you open a deal to track the negotiation. If a formal proposal is needed you prepare a quote; when the customer accepts, the quote becomes an order — where the economic commitment is final and fulfillment, production and invoicing begin. You can also create the order directly (already agreed sale, contract renewal, recurring order) without going through a quote.
The order inherits from and feeds the rest: if it comes from an accepted quote, items, customer, discounts and terms copy over with no re-entry; if you open it from the company card, recipient and dedicated discount fill in automatically. Once issued, the order links to projects, delivery tasks, support tickets and — via sync — to accounting for invoicing.
The practical benefit: six months later when someone on the team opens a customer contact, they see full history — quotes sent, orders issued, which are fulfilled or invoiced, with what amounts and items. No shared Excel file, no «orders 2026» folder to hunt through.
When you go to Sales → Orders you see the Kanban board: columns where each column is an operational phase (New Order, Taken in charge, To be invoiced, Invoiced, Fulfilled, Standby, Cancelled — customizable). Each order is a card in its status column. At a glance you see how many orders await fulfillment, how many are in invoicing, how many are closed.
This is the right view for daily work: open Mokapen in the morning, look at «Taken in charge» — orders to work on today. Look at «To be invoiced» — those to pass to accounting. The «Fulfilled» column shows closed jobs for the period, with total amount at the top of the column.
At the top you have two tools you will use often: the pipeline selector (if you have different processes — e.g. products vs services — each has its own pipeline and phases) and the Filters button. Filters narrow the view: only a certain customer's orders, above a certain amount, a certain owner, a certain tag. If you often use the same combination, save it as a saved filter and recall it with one click.
To advance an order's phase you do not need to open it: drag the card from «Taken in charge» to «To be invoiced» and status updates. Fast during ops meetings or morning rounds of open jobs.
The + Order button top right opens the editor to create a new order — see «Creating an order» later.
A board divided by pipeline phase; each order is a card. Total amount at the top of each column gives economic volume by status. To advance, drag the card: status updates without opening the order.
Classic table: one row per order, configurable columns (code, customer, amount, status, owner, date, tags). Sort by clicking headers and select multiple rows with checkboxes for bulk actions: change owner, archive an end-of-year batch, export CSV for accounting.
Rule of thumb: Kanban to work (advance orders, open, comment, manage fulfillment), List to review and fix (check numbers, sort by amount, bulk edits, export, analysis). Switch with the selector top right. Filters and active pipeline stay the same.
When you click a card on the Kanban (or a row in the List), the order opens. If you have a Premium plan you can switch to the full page with the expand icon at the top — handy when working on long orders with many line items or detailed terms text.
At the top you find the order code (e.g. #ORD-3-2026) and the title. The code uniquely identifies the order — see the dedicated section. The title is the description you give it, such as «2026 plant maintenance order — Acme customer»: it helps you recognize it, but does not appear as such on the PDF.
Below the title is the action bar: pipeline status, privacy, tags, attachments, notes, Copy link, Options menu (Clone, Archive, Delete). The + Create and connect button links tasks, appointments, projects, tickets — the link is automatic and bidirectional.
Top right is the document bar: Preview, Download (PDF/Word), Send email — see the dedicated section.
The rest of the record is organized in blocks: sender and recipient, commercial data, line items, totals, document design, economic conditions, connections and sync.
The sender is pre-filled from organization settings (name, address, VAT number, logo). You set the recipient by selecting company and contact from the directory: name, address, VAT number, email and phone load automatically. If the company has a dedicated discount in its record, it applies to all lines. If the customer does not exist yet, you can create them on the fly by typing their name.
On the order full page (not the compact side panel) you find the collapsible Shipping block (truck icon). Here you manage everything related to physical delivery: shipping cost, destination country, shipping address and goods recipient data (name, address, postal code, city, province, phone, email).
You can enter the shipping cost manually or let Mokapen calculate it automatically based on geographic zones (Settings → Sales → Orders → Shipping). Automatic calculation considers the destination country and, if the zone is set «by weight», the weight of products on lines (quantity × catalog weight). When you add or remove product lines or change country, the system can recalculate the cost and update totals.
If the order amount exceeds the zone free shipping threshold, Mokapen zeroes the cost. Shipping amount is added to order totals (after items) and when syncing to Fatture in Cloud can become a dedicated line. Zone setup details in the Shipping guide.
Every order has a unique code that identifies the document internally (Kanban, lists, connections) and appears on the PDF as the order reference.
Mokapen generates the code automatically on save if empty: annual sequential in ORD-NUMBER-YEAR format (e.g. ORD-1-2026, ORD-2-2026). Every January 1st the counter resets. If you change the order date to a different year, the code regenerates to match that year.
You can set the code manually: click the code in the header, type what you want, save. Useful to align with ERP or external accounting numbering. Codes outside the standard format do not affect automatic sequencing. Watch out for duplicates: better to leave automatic numbering and intervene only when needed.
In PDFs/emails the file name can be Sender - ORD-3-2026.pdf.
Line items are the heart of the order: the rows that describe to the customer what you are selling or delivering and how much it costs. Each row has a title, quantity, unit price, VAT rate and total. Everything else — discounts, net/gross calculation, margin, taxes — is calculated in real time as you work.
When you click + Item a modal opens with the first choice: what type of row to add. There are five options, and the difference is not cosmetic — it changes what the row represents in the order.
On an order linked to one or more quotes (Connections tab), the + Item button becomes a menu with two options: New (standard modal, as on quotes) and From connected quote. The second option appears only if at least one quote is connected to the order — useful when the order starts partial or when you add lines later without re-entering prices and VAT.
Choosing From connected quote opens a modal: you select which quote (if you have linked more than one), Mokapen loads its line items with title, quantity and price. Check those to import — even just some — and confirm with Add. Selected rows are added to the order with the same data as the quote (product/service, quantity, price, line discount, VAT). You can then edit them individually like any other row.
Each row can be one of these five types, and the choice changes what the row represents in the order:
Regardless of type, every line item has the same fields (with small differences for % types):
Above the item list there is a «Use gross prices» toggle. It is not a technical detail: it changes what the number in the price field means.
The toggle applies to the whole order: you cannot mix net and gross lines. Choose based on customer: company almost always net; end consumer almost always gross.
Discounts apply in cascade on the remaining base (percentages do not add up). Beyond customer, line and manual, orders can also use org rules for quantity and total net amount. Full setup in the Discounts guide.
Typical order of application on a €1,000 net line:
In practice you rarely use all levels together. Common patterns:
The totals block shows each valued level separately. Until you enable manual discount, customer, line and (if configured) automatic rules remain.
If the order comes from an accepted quote or a won deal, Mokapen can pre-fill the lines — verify and adjust before sending to the customer or syncing with accounting.
Rows can be dragged to reorder: the order on screen is the order the customer sees on the PDF. Put main items first, then accessories, then any percentage discounts — so the order reads well.
To edit a row click the edit icon: the same creation modal reopens. To delete, the trash icon. Mokapen does not ask for confirmation on row deletion (recreating takes seconds), but on important orders it is worth saving periodically.
The totals block at the bottom of the items section shows all the order math. Items visible to the customer on the PDF are:
There are then three items you see only internally and that never appear on the PDF. They show only if you filled unit cost on lines:
These are your internal profitability metrics, useful to decide if you can still lower the price to close.
The PDF the customer receives is not composed from scratch each time: it starts from a template that defines layout, colors, logo position, line item table structure, where the signature goes. On the order record you find the Design block with a dropdown to choose which template to use.
Mokapen includes four default templates — Standard 1, Standard 2, Standard 3, Standard 4 — with different layouts. They differ in logo position (top left, centered, right), line table style (with or without alternating rows, borders or separators only), sender/recipient block layout, signature block position. They are already configured and automatically use your organization data (logo, colors, tax data).
If you are starting out and have no time to customize, try the four standard templates with the same order (just change template and click Preview) and pick the one you like. Many users stay on standard templates for years without issues.
If you have specific needs — precise brand colors, a layout required by your sector, extra blocks like warranty terms or digital signature — you can create custom templates in the organization Templates area (side menu). Each template is of a specific type (Order, Quote, Invoice...) and defines document structure with customizable blocks.
A custom template lets you:
In your organization's template list you can mark a template as default: it will be proposed automatically on all new orders. Useful when the whole sales team must use the same layout without thinking about it.
If you change the template of an existing order (e.g. because that customer requires a different layout) and save, preview and download will use the new design — without touching items, prices or conditions you already wrote.
In the Document block you find the economic conditions editor: a rich text area (bold, italic, lists, links, tables) where you write everything around items and numbers. Payment terms («30 days from invoice date»), offer validity («valid until 31/03/2026»), confidentiality clauses, delivery times, warranties, penalties, regulatory references.
If you set a template with pre-loaded conditions, the editor fills automatically on order creation — you only change what is needed for the specific case. If the template has no pre-loaded conditions, you start blank and write freely.
Conditions text appears on the PDF below the item table, before the signature block. It is not indexed or analyzed by Mokapen: pure document content, the formatting you see in the editor is what the customer sees.
When the order is ready — items entered, conditions written, customer linked — it is time to deliver it. Mokapen gives you three paths, from simplest to most professional.
The Preview button top right of the record shows the PDF exactly as the customer will see it, directly in the browser in A4 format. It does not generate a file to download: it is an on-the-fly rendering with current data and template.
Use it always before sending. It reveals in two seconds what you miss on the record: a line title cut because too long, a note wrapping badly, logo positioned in a way you do not like with this template, wrong VAT rate on a line. Edit, save, open preview again — iterate until satisfied.
Important: preview reflects the saved order state. If you just changed items or conditions and have not saved, preview may not show the latest changes. Save and try again.
The Download button opens a menu with two options: PDF and Word (docx). PDF is the standard delivery format — not editable by the customer, professional, universal. The file name is built automatically as SenderName - OrderCode.pdf (example: «Acme Srl - ORD-3-2026.pdf»), so when the customer saves it they find it already identified.
Word serves two specific cases: when you need to customize the document manually before sending (add a custom paragraph you do not want in the system), or when the customer asks for an editable format to integrate into a larger document. Note: exported Word is a snapshot of the order — changes there do not return to Mokapen.
The Send email button opens a modal to send the order to the customer without leaving Mokapen, with the PDF attached.
The recipient is pre-filled with the linked contact or company email. You can add more recipients separated by semicolons — useful when your contact wants to copy purchasing or their accountant. The From field proposes email addresses configured as SMTP connections in the organization: if you have none, Mokapen uses its system address (the email still arrives, but from a generic address). To look professional, connect at least one company address (info@, sales@, your personal) in email connections.
The subject pre-fills with «Order {code}» — change it for something more specific («Our 2026 maintenance proposal»). The body is set with a standard greeting, but you can rewrite it completely: your last commercial note, a reference to a conversation, next steps.
Below you find two important options:
After sending, the event is recorded in the order timeline (date, time, recipients): even if you return three weeks later, you know exactly when you sent it.
Mokapen is CRM and commercial document, not invoicing software: e-invoicing, VAT registers and journal stay on accounting (Fatture in Cloud, ERP, accountant). For orders, sync is the key step — here data becomes invoiceable without re-entry.
The most mature integration is with Fatture in Cloud: details in the dedicated Fatture in Cloud guide. By connecting the FIC account, customer records, product/service catalog and orders with line items flow from Mokapen to Fatture in Cloud, where they become e-invoices. Direction is configurable (export only, or bidirectional).
On the order the Sync tab shows status: synced, last successful operation, any errors. After changes to items or amounts in Mokapen, a new sync may be needed before accounting issues the invoice.
Records are matched between systems with VAT number and tax code anti-duplicate. VAT mapping and sync filters are configurable per organization in Integrations.
Typical flow: accepted quote → order in Mokapen → sync order to FIC → e-invoice from accounting. Mokapen handles CRM and order document; fiscal compliance stays on the connected accounting system.
There are three ways to start, and the choice changes how much work you do.
In all cases the operational sequence is the same:
Click Preview, then Send email, Download PDF or start sync with accounting — depending on the next step in your process.
Everything does not need to be perfect on first save: you can return to edit items, prices and text. After sync to Fatture in Cloud, changes in Mokapen may require a new sync.
Order changes are done in three different ways, depending on what you need to change and on how many records.
Open the order record (from Kanban or List) and edit where needed: click the title to rename, the pencil icon next to fields to correct them, add/remove line items, rewrite conditions. On the side panel fields save automatically one by one when you leave focus. On the full page you must click Save when you finish the block you were working on.
Note: if you change items or conditions text, remember to save first before generating preview or sending — otherwise the PDF sent is still the previous version.
If the only thing to change is the order phase (moved to fulfillment, invoiced, delivery completed), do not even open the record: drag the card on the Kanban from one column to another. Status updates instantly. Most efficient way to manage fulfillment during ops meetings or morning rounds of open jobs.
One restriction: «terminal» statuses — those at 100% (like Fulfilled) or 0% (Cancelled) — can only be changed to other statuses by users with member role in the organization. Protection to prevent external collaborators from «reopening» already closed orders.
When you need to change something on many orders — reassign all of a salesperson who left, add a tag to a batch of summer orders, move status on a batch — switch to List view, filter to find the right orders, select with checkboxes, and click Edit in the action bar that appears at the top.
The bulk edit modal shows only fields that make sense in bulk: owner, status, tags, simple custom fields. You cannot bulk edit items or text — those are by definition specific to a single order. Confirm, and the change applies to all selections.
Other bulk actions in the same bar are Clone, Archive and Delete — see dedicated sections.
Delete orders created by mistake or duplicate tests. Prefer Archive if the order has useful history (sent, fulfilled or synced, connections with customer or deal) and you do not want to lose trace on the contact or company.
With Advanced Premium the order goes to the trash (Orders page → Actions → Order trash). From there you can Restore or Delete permanently. If you open an order already in trash, a Restore / Delete permanently banner appears.
On Free plan (without Advanced Premium) deletion is generally permanent right after confirmation, without trash — check your organization permissions.
Consider impact on sync and invoicing already started before permanently deleting.
An order is not like a task you «complete» and it disappears. Even when the job is done — fulfilled, invoiced, cancelled — the record stays useful: it is commercial history of the customer, and it is fine to find it in connections on their record, in year reports, in analysis of past orders. Archive does exactly this: moves the order out of active views (Kanban and List no longer show it) but keeps it intact. It still appears on the linked customer record and in historical reports, and you can consult it anytime from Orders → Actions → Order archive.
To reopen it (customer calls back months later and you want to continue from there): find it in archive, open the record, Options → Restore, and it returns to active Kanban in the status it had before archiving.
When to archive and when to delete? Practical rule: archive if the order really happened (you sent it, there were discussions, it has historical value), delete if it is a mistake (created by error, duplicate, test). Do not archive for «cleanup»: Kanban with filters already gives you all the cleanup you need, and old but good orders are added value on the customer record.
If you have a template order you reuse often — same item structure with small variations for a different customer — do not recreate from scratch each time: clone it. The cloned order keeps all items, conditions, template and selected attachments; you change the recipient customer and adjust prices if needed.
Mokapen creates the new order with a suffix in the title to distinguish it from the original. It gets a new code (current year sequential) and is not linked to the original customer — you set the right recipient. The original stays unchanged: cloning is a copy, not a move.
Most orders come from something that already happened upstream — an accepted quote or a won deal. Mokapen avoids re-entering items and customer data in these steps.
There are two main paths:
In both cases always verify items, prices and conditions before sending to the customer or syncing: the quote may have been under negotiation until the last moment, and the order is the definitive document.
The order does not live in isolation: other Mokapen areas surround it and are worth knowing to really use it.
Settings live in Settings → Sales → Orders. With the Orders app and a suitable Premium plan, Members (and above) can manage them — not only Owners. Available cards:
List view columns can still be adapted from the List Actions menu where the product allows; organization custom fields stay in the global fields/entity settings area, not on these «coming soon» cards.
The order pipeline models operational fulfillment, not commercial negotiation (that stays on quotes). By default Mokapen proposes seven statuses:
Percentages («progress») feed the bar on Kanban cards and reports. Customize statuses, column order and progress in Settings → Sales → Orders → Pipeline and statuses. Multiple pipelines and team restriction work like on quotes.
Outside the orders area but important to make it work well there are two more configurations:
Kanban and List are for working on individual orders; to understand overall performance — how many orders you made in the quarter, who is the top salesperson, which products end up most often in orders, trend of fulfilled and invoiced orders — there are dedicated reports, accessible from the Order reports page (requires Premium plan).
Available reports cover the most useful analytical views in a sales cycle:
As everywhere in Mokapen, reports respect organization permissions: each user sees only records they can access based on role. A salesperson does not automatically see colleagues' orders unless permissions allow — useful for teams with internal competition or sensitive data.
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