On-line order status history
VisibleLogistics keeps track of historical status updates
In my previous post, I showed the form for entering order status updates in VisibleLogistics. After you update the status, the order details page shows the new status:
Apart from the way that this is highlighted on the web page, perhaps, this is something you could also store in a simple spreadsheet that you might use to keep track of orders. The advantage of software like VisibleLogistics that uses a proper database, however, is that it is straightforward to do things like keep a complete history.
This is what you see when you select an order's status history tab: all of an order's status updates, which probably shows an order's progression through the supply chain, depending on what you and your business partners choose to enter.
This is the kind of thing that you do not usually need, but when you do it is invaluable to be able to check back and see what happened when.