We've given the "discount order line" feature a spring clean. The functionality is the same, but hopefully its now a little cleaner and easier to use.
I realised that we had to change the way this worked when I was on a support call to a customer who just wanted to increase a price on a sales order. Should be easy, right?
"Click on discount" I said,
"But I want to increase the price" said the customer.
"You still need to click discount to increase the price" I said.
A pause. "Right", said the customer. "Now I need to set the price, not choose a percentage".
"Click on absolute", I said
"Absolute?" said the customer, sounding annoyed.
What does absolute mean? Why should he care?
That's when I realised that we'd made a bit of a mess of the wording on this form. Its a simple feature, but the words we'd chosen had made it obscure and difficult to understand. Many of our customers are hitting that link on every line of every order, dozens or hundreds of times a day.
This is an easy mistake for software companies to make, and its only by talking to customers and explaining things to them that we can put ourselves in your shoes and realise when we've made software that's hard to use.
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| The OLD line price editor |
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| The NEW line price editor |
Choosing the right wording is hard. I know there are a couple of other bits of text that catch people out in OrderHarmony, and we need to fix them. One is the
manufacturer vs supplier confusion. Manufacturer should really be called
brand. I only worked that out after explaining it to several people.
Shout at me on support@orderharmony.com if you find things that confuse you in our software. Its my job to make sure they get fixed.
Cheers
Dan