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Customer Orders Missing

StormdancingStormdancing Registered Users Posts: 917 Major grins
edited August 24, 2006 in SmugMug Pro Sales Support
I have two customers who each claimed they placed two separate orders, days apart.

I only see one order for each person.

Help please.

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Dana
Dana
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    AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited August 23, 2006
    I have two customers who each claimed they placed two separate orders, days apart.

    I only see one order for each person.

    Help please.

    heartsfire.smugmug.com

    Dana
    Hi Dana,
    Stby I'll check.
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    StormdancingStormdancing Registered Users Posts: 917 Major grins
    edited August 23, 2006
    order # 160821
    order # 160592

    These are the orders I see. These ladies are some of our local librarians, so they are no all together computer illiterate. Something is strange somewhere.

    Edited - I don't want my customer's emails on here.
    Dana
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    Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if
    no birds sang there except those that sang best.
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    AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited August 23, 2006
    I have two customers who each claimed they placed two separate orders, days apart.

    I only see one order for each person.

    Help please.

    heartsfire.smugmug.com

    Dana


    This gallery: http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/1783628/6/88713287/Medium
    You must have had no pricing on the photos when the customer ordered, because these are at retail pricing, and therefore the order won't show in your orders reporting in your control panel.

    See my blog, how to block "at cost" sales effectively:
    http://blogs.smugmug.com/pros/2005/07/19/how-to-block-at-cost-sales/

    Does this help explain things?
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    StormdancingStormdancing Registered Users Posts: 917 Major grins
    edited August 23, 2006
    OK well that's a fine way to start out. &*(%R&*#(@&*()&*(

    So now the question remains - how do I/they track these orders?
    Dana
    ** Feel free to edit my photos if you see room for improvement.**
    Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if
    no birds sang there except those that sang best.
    ~Henry Van Dyke
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    StormdancingStormdancing Registered Users Posts: 917 Major grins
    edited August 23, 2006
    Ok have set the pricing to 0, fiddled with a gallery that I didn't have for sale, logged out, tested it and seems ok. I just tested one size, so I will have to do more testing later for that. I also checked the umpteen galleries that I had already custom priced and they seem to be ok and still have that custom pricing intact.

    So much to learn on this. I haven't even had time to customize the page at all. People are beating my door down to buy pictures. Laughing.gif That's a good thing except when I screw up and sell them at cost. Oh boy.
    Dana
    ** Feel free to edit my photos if you see room for improvement.**
    Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if
    no birds sang there except those that sang best.
    ~Henry Van Dyke
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    AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited August 23, 2006
    OK well that's a fine way to start out. &*(%R&*#(@&*()&*(

    So now the question remains - how do I/they track these orders?
    You can't. They can, and we (SmugMug) Can.

    Send an email to help@smugmug.com with the email addresses of the buyers and our help staff will help you :)
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    StormdancingStormdancing Registered Users Posts: 917 Major grins
    edited August 23, 2006
    Andy wrote:
    You can't. They can, and we (SmugMug) Can.

    Send an email to help@smugmug.com with the email addresses of the buyers and our help staff will help you :)

    Ok thanks for the quick response and help Andy.
    Dana
    ** Feel free to edit my photos if you see room for improvement.**
    Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if
    no birds sang there except those that sang best.
    ~Henry Van Dyke
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    DTMPhotosDTMPhotos Registered Users Posts: 47 Big grins
    edited August 23, 2006
    Quick suggestion
    Set your portfolio pricing to be .01 (1 cent) profit. At least that way, if you ever have an item that you missed setting your "real" prices for, you'll see it sell AND you'll be able to track all orders. Gallery pricing trumps portfolio. (and individual image trumps gallery)...

    Now I never worry about whether I'm seeing all sales AND I can quickly see if there's been an error in my pricing setup...

    D.
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    Mike LaneMike Lane Registered Users Posts: 7,106 Major grins
    edited August 24, 2006
    DTMPhotos wrote:
    Set your portfolio pricing to be .01 (1 cent) profit. At least that way, if you ever have an item that you missed setting your "real" prices for, you'll see it sell AND you'll be able to track all orders. Gallery pricing trumps portfolio. (and individual image trumps gallery)...

    Now I never worry about whether I'm seeing all sales AND I can quickly see if there's been an error in my pricing setup...

    D.

    You could of course set your portfolio pricing to be something a little bit more along the lines of your minimum base prices (which probably isn't just $.01 higher than cost). That way you can track orders and still make a bit of profit even if you did forget to set pricing for a gallery.
    Y'all don't want to hear me, you just want to dance.

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    StormdancingStormdancing Registered Users Posts: 917 Major grins
    edited August 24, 2006
    Mike Lane wrote:
    You could of course set your portfolio pricing to be something a little bit more along the lines of your minimum base prices (which probably isn't just $.01 higher than cost). That way you can track orders and still make a bit of profit even if you did forget to set pricing for a gallery.

    I like DTM's idea, but I like yours better. :D
    Dana
    ** Feel free to edit my photos if you see room for improvement.**
    Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if
    no birds sang there except those that sang best.
    ~Henry Van Dyke
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