What to do next with a record

Every record page says what the record is waiting for, and offers the button that does it.

Open any record — a requisition, a purchase order, an invoice, a works order — and the strip above it says what it is waiting for: send it for approval, receive the goods, match and post, release, firm. The buttons beside it do exactly that, on the record, without going back to the list.

• The buttons are the same actions the list offers on that row, shown only when they apply to the record as it stands — a received order is not offered Receive.
• For the everyday flows the strip also says why that is the step and what happens after it: "When the goods arrive, receive them here — the receipt updates stock and lets the supplier’s invoice be matched."
• When a record is with approvers, the strip says so and points at the approval trail: there is nothing to do until they decide.
• A finished record — posted, closed, cancelled — shows no strip.