You use this program to maintain dispatch notes and optionally to print dispatch notes or dispatch invoices on-line.
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End Dispatch |
Ends the dispatch. You are prompted to print the dispatch invoice online when the option: Online printing options - Invoice (Dispatch Notes Setup - Options is enabled. You cannot end the dispatch note if the option: Customer tax registration number mandatory (Sales Order Setup) is enabled and the Customer company tax regn no field (Sales Order Header Maintenance) is blank. You can only select to print an invoice when the dispatch note is in a status of 7. |
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Cancel Dispatch |
Cancels the entire dispatch note. For stocked lines, the dispatch quantity is returned to the warehouse. When you cancel a dispatch note, the Warehouse control account is debited and the Dispatched but not invoiced account is credited (Browse on Warehouses or General Ledger Integration - Inventory tab). Trade promotions, where applicable, are updated. You can only cancel a dispatch note after it has been printed if the activity: SO Cancel dispatch note after printing is allowed against your operator code (Security Activities). You can cancel a dispatch note which does not have a parent sales order if none of the lines on the dispatch note contain a ship quantity. If you are using FIFO costing, a new FIFO bucket is created at the cost held against the dispatch note. |
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Edit | |||||
Change Dispatch Header | Select this to use the Sales Order Header Maintenance program to maintain the header details of the dispatch note. | ||||
Change Dispatch Status | Select this to assign a new status to the dispatch note, including placing the dispatch note on hold. See New Dispatch Status. | ||||
Add Freight line | Select this to add a freight charge to the dispatch. See Maintenance. | ||||
Add Miscellaneous Line | Select this to add a miscellaneous charge to the dispatch. See Maintenance. | ||||
Add Comments | Select this to add one or more comment lines to the
dispatch. See Maintenance. |
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Cancel Line |
Select this to cancel the highlighted dispatch note line. See Maintenance. |
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Query | |||||
Delivery Query | Select this to use the Delivery Load Query program to view the Load Planning delivery load information for the dispatch note. | ||||
Options | |||||
Preferences | Select this to assign default printer destinations for the printing of dispatch invoices and dispatch notes. | ||||
Dispatch Note |
Indicate the dispatch note you want to maintain.
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Add Lines | Select this to add freight, miscellaneous charge or comment lines to a dispatch note. Selecting this option enables the options in the Maintenance pane. | ||||
Change Dispatch Header... | Select this to use the Sales Order Header Maintenance program to view and maintain shipping details for the dispatch note. | ||||
Dispatch Value | Select this to use the SO Value Dispatch Notes program to view the values associated with the dispatch note, including totals. | ||||
Free Goods | Select this to requalify any free goods promotions for the dispatch note. When selected, the entire dispatch is processed and, for any free goods line, the amount that is now available to dispatch is checked. If this amount is less than the current dispatched amount, then the operator is prompted to change or remove the line. The operator can make a choice or cancel out altogether. This function is only enabled when free goods promotion lines are included on the dispatch note and you have access to the activity: SO Order Entry, re-qualify Trade Promotions (Security Activities). |
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End Dispatch |
Select this to end the dispatch. If you selected the setup option: Online printing options - Invoice (Dispatch Notes Setup - Options tab), then you are prompted to print the dispatch invoice online. See End Dispatch.
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You use the Preferences option to assign default printer destinations for the printing of dispatch invoices and dispatch notes.
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Default printer destinations |
This allows you to indicate the printer to be used to print online invoices and dispatch notes If Current Printer is displayed in the following fields, then this means the printer which is currently selected in your operating system. This is not necessarily your default printer. To find your current printer, Press F8 and then select File > Print Setup or press Shift + F6. The printer that is highlighted is your current printer. |
Online invoices set to | This indicates the printer to which you want to print online invoices from dispatch notes. |
Online dispatch notes set to | This indicates the printer to which you want to print online dispatch notes. |
Set | Select this to assign the current printer destination to the printing of your online dispatch/invoice documents. |
Clear | Select this to detach the current printer from your online dispatch/invoice documents. |
Close | Saves your selections and returns to the previous screen. |
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Dispatch note | Indicates the dispatch note number you are currently maintaining. |
Dispatch note status |
Indicates the current status of the dispatch note (see Dispatch Note Statuses). Select this to change the status of the dispatch note - see New Dispatch Status. |
Customer | Indicates the code of the customer to whom the dispatch note is made out. |
Customer on hold | Indicates whether the customer is on hold (see AR Customer Maintenance). |
Customer purchase order |
Enter your customer's purchase order number. This purchase order number can be printed on the dispatch note (see S/O Document Formats - Heading Section). |
User defined 1 and 2 | The description for these fields is defined in the Dispatch Notes Setup program. |
You need to select the Add Lines option to enable the applicable line type options you can add (e.g. Freight, Misc Charge, Service Charge, Comment, etc).
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Save | Saves your changes. | ||||
Freight | Select this to add a freight charge line to the dispatch note. See Freight. | ||||
Misc Charge | Select this to add a miscellaneous charge line to the dispatch note. See Miscellaneous. | ||||
Service Charge | Select this to use the Service Charge Lines program to add a service charge line to the dispatch note. | ||||
Add from Sales Order |
Select this to use the Dispatch Note Review program to review the original sales order, dispatch available quantities and add these dispatch lines to the current dispatch note. The sales order lines displayed in the Dispatch Note Review program, are determined by your selection at the setup option: Basis to use for sales order inclusion and suggested dispatch quantity (Dispatch Notes Setup - Options tab). This means that you will be unable to access the Dispatch Note Review Options of the Dispatch Note Review programs. If you selected the setup option: Retain original order quantity when over-dispatching (Dispatch Notes Setup - Options tab), then the original quantity on the sales order is not updated when you use this function to over dispatch available quantities. This function is not displayed if you have been denied access to the activity: SO Add merchandise lines in dispatch note maintenance (Security Activities).
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Comments | This enables you to add various comment lines to the dispatch note. See Comments. |
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Free Format Comment |
Select this to assign free format dispatch comments to the dispatch note. These comments can be printed using the Comment text fields in the total section of the Dispatch Note document format (see S/O Document Formats). |
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Standard Comment | Select this to insert pre-defined comments into the dispatch note. | ||||
Stock S/O Text | Select this to insert additional text that is defined against the stock item being processed for the dispatch line. | ||||
Cancel line |
Select this to cancel the highlighted dispatch note line.
When a stock line is cancelled the dispatch quantity is returned to the warehouse, and the quantity is placed on back order. When you cancel a line, Trade promotions are updated where applicable. When a line with an attached promotion is cancelled, any off invoice promotions that are separate lines are also removed. If multiple dispatch notes exist for the order, then you can only cancel a dispatch note line on this dispatch note if the line affects global trade promotions if the activity: SO Allow cancellation when dispatch global promotions on different DN is allowed against your operator code (Security Activities). You can only cancel a dispatch note line after the dispatch note has been printed if the activity: SO Cancel dispatch note after printing is allowed against your operator code (Security Activities). |
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Cancel Dispatch Note |
Select this to cancel the entire dispatch note. For stocked lines, the dispatch quantity is returned to the warehouse. When you cancel a dispatch note, the Warehouse control account is debited and the Dispatched but not invoiced account is credited (Browse on Warehouses or General Ledger Integration - Inventory tab). Trade promotions, where applicable, are updated. You can only cancel a dispatch note after it has been printed if the activity: SO Cancel dispatch note after printing is allowed against your operator code (Security Activities). You can cancel a dispatch note which does not have a parent sales order if none of the lines on the dispatch note contain a ship quantity. |
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Currency | This indicates the currency for the freight charge. This defaults to the currency defined against the customer and cannot be changed. |
Amount |
Indicate the freight amount to charge the customer for the order. This amount must be in the same currency as the currency assigned to the customer. |
Cost |
Indicate the actual freight cost of the activity (e.g. courier costs). The cost for freight may not always be in your local currency (e.g. if you are importing goods from another country there could be foreign hauliers transporting the goods and they will bill you in the foreign currency. |
Taxable |
This indicates whether the dispatch note line is taxable, and the applicable tax code that must be used. You can only access this field when:
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Tax code |
This indicates the tax code (and associated percentage) that you want to apply to the transaction. You can configure default tax codes for Miscellaneous charges, Freight charges, Non-stocked items and Credit notes (Tax Options - Options tab). |
GST taxable |
Indicate the GST code to assign to the order line. This only applies when your Nationality is set to CAN (System Setup - General tab) and you indicated that Canadian GST is required (Tax Options - General tab). |
GST code | This indicates the tax code that will be used by the
system to calculate the Canadian GST tax for this
transaction. You cannot access this option if GST tax is not defined for the customer (AR Customer Maintenance), or the invoice is defined as non-taxable (Order Header - Tax Information). |
Product class | The product class assigned to a freight charge defaults to _FRT and cannot be changed. |
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Description |
Indicate the description for the miscellaneous charge you want to add to the dispatch note. You can select a description from the list of standard comment codes. |
Currency | |
Amount |
Indicate the total value of miscellaneous charge you want to charge your customer. This usually comprises your actual cost with an added percentage or value. You can enter a positive or negative amount. |
Quantity | This is not applicable for a miscellaneous charge. |
Cost | Indicate the cost to you of the miscellaneous charge (i.e. the actually cost of the activity). |
Product class |
The product class assigned to a miscellaneous charge defaults to _OTH. You can assign any applicable product class to your miscellaneous charges. |
Taxable |
This indicates whether the dispatch note line is taxable, and the applicable tax code that must be used. You can only access this field when:
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Tax code |
This indicates the tax code (and associated percentage) that you want to apply to the transaction. You can configure default tax codes for Miscellaneous charges, Freight charges, Non-stocked items and Credit notes (Tax Options - Options tab). |
GST taxable |
This indicates the GST code (in the range A to H) that you want to assign to the order line. The GST taxable field is displayed only if your Nationality is set to CAN (System Setup - General tab) and you indicated that Canadian GST is required (Tax Options - General tab). |
GST code | This indicates the tax code that will be used by the
system to calculate the Canadian GST tax for this
transaction. You cannot access this option if GST tax is not defined for the customer (AR Customer Maintenance), or the invoice is defined as non-taxable (Order Header - Tax Information). |
This section describes the options for the various comments you can add to the dispatch note.
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Free Format Comments |
Select this to enter comments manually for a dispatch line using the text editor. When you have entered the required comment and you select the Save function, the following options are displayed: |
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Invoice and dispatch notes | Select this to print the comment(s) you entered on both the invoice and the dispatch note. | ||||||||||
Dispatch notes only | Select this if you want to print the comment(s) you entered only on the dispatch note. | ||||||||||
Attach comment to a previous line |
Select this to attach the comment to a particular dispatch note line. Free-format comments can be attached only to the previous 10 non-comment lines. If you select this option then you can indicate the line to which the comment must be attached. |
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Standard Comments | Select this if you want to insert pre-defined comments into the dispatch note. | ||||||||||
Standard comment code |
Enter the code of the standard comment you want to attach to the dispatch note. When you select the comment code, the associated text is retrieved automatically into the dispatch note. Sales Order standard comment codes are maintained using the Browse on Standard Comments program. When you select OK to save the comment, the following options are displayed:
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Stock S/Order Text | Select this to insert sales order additional text that is defined against the stock item being processed for the dispatch line. |
The dispatch note line details for the dispatch note you are currently maintaining are displayed in this listview.
You cannot add a line to a dispatch note created from a Supply Chain Transfer (SCT).
By highlighting an order line and typically using your right mouse button, you can select the following options:
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Insert before Line | This enables you to insert one of the following types
of lines before the currently highlighted line in the
listview:
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Add To End | This enables you to add one of the following types of
lines after the last order line in the listview:
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Change line |
This enables you to maintain the currently highlighted line as follows:
If you are using trade Promotions, then you cannot change a line with an attached promotion. You can, however, cancel it. Free goods lines cannot be changed, only requalified using the Free Goods function. Free goods lines are not changed, even if their qualifying line is on the same dispatch note. The reason is that the free goods may already have been sent. If any free goods or global lines on the dispatch note are affected by your changes, then the dispatch note is placed 'on hold' and an appropriate message is displayed. Note that the 'hold' is not removed automatically, but must be done so manually. |
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Cancel line | This option enables you to cancel the highlighted
dispatch note line.
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Add From Sales order | This enables you to use the Dispatch Note Review programs to review the original sales order, dispatch available quantities and add these dispatch lines to the current dispatch note. See above. |
This screen is displayed when you select to change the status of the dispatch note.
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Accept | Accepts the information you entered and to return to the previous screen. |
Cancel | Ignores any changes you made and to return to the previous screen. |
Dispatch status detail | |
New dispatch status |
This displays the available statuses to which you can change the current dispatch note. The current status is selected by default. The statuses available depend on the current status of the dispatch note. The status code indicates what processing has already taken place against the selected dispatch note and which processes still need to be completed. Refer to Dispatch Note Statuses for additional information on possible dispatch note statuses. |
Information to release/place hold | This is enabled if you select to place a dispatch note on hold or in suspense or if a dispatch note is currently on hold and you select to place it in a different status. |
Reason | Enter a reason for placing the dispatch note on hold or in suspense or for releasing a dispatch note from hold. |
Password |
The Password screen is displayed if you defined a password against the option: S/Order Place dispatch note on hold (Password Definition). This enables you to enter the password required for placing the dispatch note on hold. |
Information to release from suspense | This is only enabled if the dispatch note is currently in suspense and you select to place it in a different status. |
Credit authority | Enter the credit authority reference (e.g. the operator's initials) for taking the dispatch note out of suspense. |
Password |
The Password screen is displayed if you defined a password against the option: S/Order Entry of credit authority on release of sales orders (Password Definition). This enables you to enter the password required for releasing the dispatch note from suspense. |
Invoice information | |
Invoice date |
Enter the date you want to print on the dispatch invoice created for the dispatch note. This defaults to the current system date but can be changed. You can only access this field if:
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Invoice number |
Enter the invoice number you want to assign to this dispatch note. You can only access this field if:
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The following table indicates the possible status codes that can be assigned to a dispatch note:
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<3> - Ready to print | The dispatch note is created and ready to print
(on-line, batch, or from Dispatch Note Maintenance) Next status: 5 or 7 The dispatch note proceeds to status 5 if you indicated that you require dispatch notes to be released manually for invoicing (Dispatch Notes Setup). |
<H> - On hold |
The dispatch note has been placed on hold (using the Dispatch Note Maintenance program). Next status: When the dispatch note is released, it reverts to the status it was in prior to being placed on hold. |
<5> - Dispatch printed |
The dispatch note has been printed, but you indicated that you require dispatch notes to be released manually for invoicing (Dispatch Notes Setup). Next status: 7 |
<7> - Ready to invoice |
The dispatch note can be printed on-line using the Dispatch Note Maintenance program, or in batch mode. You can optionally decide that instead of producing an invoice per dispatch note, you want to consolidate all dispatch notes for a sales order (or even all dispatch notes for a customer) into a single invoice. Dispatch notes must be in status 7 before they can be consolidated. Next status: 3, 8 or 9 If you enabled the option: Amend dispatch note print required (Dispatch Notes Setup - Options tab) then any changes made to a status 7 dispatch note that has already been printed, causes it to revert to a status 3 so that it can be printed again. |
<8> - Consolidated for invoicing |
The dispatch note has been consolidated and you can now print the invoice. This must be performed in batch mode using the Document Print program (select the Consolidated dispatch invoice document type). Note: You cannot print consolidated invoices on-line. Next status: 9 |
<9> - Complete |
The dispatch note is complete. |
This screen is displayed when you select the End Dispatch option to end the dispatch and print the required document when on-line printing is enabled.
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Select this to print the document type you selected according to the format you selected. | |||||||||
Preview | Select this to preview the document on your screen before you print it. | ||||||||
Alignment | Select this to print a document using test characters to determine if the printer alignment is correct for the document. | ||||||||
Continue Dispatch | Select this to return to the previous screen without generating the document. | ||||||||
End Dispatch | Select this to end the dispatch document without printing it. | ||||||||
Take Payment |
Select this to process a payment for the dispatch note using the Counter Sales program. This option is only enabled when the dispatch note is in a status of 7 - Ready to invoice. This option is not available for dispatch notes created from Supply Chain Transfers (SCTs). If you entered a deposit against the sales order, then you are prompted to apply the deposit as a payment. See Deposits. |
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Dispatch Comments |
Select this to use the Text Editor program to add free format comments to the dispatch note. These comments can be printed using the Comment text fields in the Total section of the Dispatch Note document format (see S/O Document Formats). |
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Printing details | |||||||||
Document to print |
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Document format |
Indicate the document format to use to print the selected Document to print. This defines the way in which information is printed on your document. If a default document format has been assigned to the customer (AR Customer Maintenance) then this is displayed as the default. When printing a Supply Chain Transfer document, the document format defaults to the SCT default document format on the warehouse (Warehouse Maintenance). If this is not defined or is invalid, then the document format defaults to the first document format defined (S/O Document Formats). |
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Define Format | Select this to define a print format for any of the document types using the S/O Document Formats program. | ||||||||
Language | If you enabled the Multi-language for document printing setup option (System Setup) then you can indicate the language code to use (see Multi-language capability). | ||||||||
Posting period | |||||||||
Period month | This indicates the period into which transactions relating to the dispatch note will be posted. | ||||||||
Period year | This indicates the year into which transactions relating to the dispatch note will be posted. | ||||||||
Change posting period | Select this to use the Change Posting Period program to change the posting period to a different period to process the dispatch note transactions. |
You can only maintain a dispatch note which is currently being maintained by another operator when the activity: SO and PO Reset order status from 0 (Security Activities) is allowed.
In addition, you can only run two instances of the Dispatch Note Maintenance program when the activity: Main menu - MDI functionality is allowed. This prevents you from simultaneously maintaining the same Dispatch note and inadvertently creating duplicate Dispatch invoices.
A dispatch note is always invoiced at the ruling sales order price at the time the dispatch invoice is created (i.e. the price is fixed by the current order price).
This is irrespective of whether the dispatch note is part of a consolidated dispatch invoice.
Electronic Signatures provide security access, transaction logging and event triggering. This enables you to increase control over your system changes.
Access to the following eSignature transactions within this program can be restricted at Operator, Group, Role or Company level. You configure this using the Electronic Signatures program.
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MDN Change dispatch note |
Controls access to the maintenance of dispatch notes in the Dispatch Note Maintenance program. |
MDN Cancel dispatch note |
Controls access to the Cancel Dispatch function in the Dispatch Note Maintenance program. |
MDN Change dispatch note status |
Controls access to the changing of the Dispatch note status in the Dispatch Note Maintenance program. |
MDN Add dispatch merchandise line from maintenance |
Controls access to the adding of merchandise lines to dispatch notes in the Dispatch Note Review and Dispatch Note Maintenance programs. |
MDN Change dispatch note merchandise line |
Controls access to the maintenance of merchandise lines in the Dispatch Note Maintenance program. |
MDN Cancel dispatch note line |
Controls access to the Cancel Line function in the Dispatch Note Maintenance program. |
MDN Insert dispatch note line |
Controls access to the Add Lines function in the Dispatch Note Maintenance program. |
MDN Add dispatch note non-merchandise line |
Controls access to the Add Lines function for non-merchandise lines in the Dispatch Note Maintenance program. |
MDN Change dispatch note non-merchandise line |
Controls access to the maintenance of non-merchandise lines in the Dispatch Note Maintenance program. |
MDN Print dispatch document in maintenance |
Controls access to the Document to print function on the End Dispatch screen in the Dispatch Note Maintenance program. |
Print sales order custom form fields on dispatch invoices
This task describes how you can print custom form information defined against a sales order on the dispatch note invoice.
Custom form data is not printed on consolidated dispatch invoices. |
Select the Dispatch Note Review program.
On the Dispatch Note Review Preferences screen, select the preference: Copy custom form from sales order.
Define the same custom form fields on the dispatch note custom form that you defined on the sales order custom form. Only those custom form fields with the same name on both sets of custom forms are copied from the sales order to the custom form.
Select the S/O Document Formats program.
Select the Invoice format you use to print dispatch invoices.
Highlight Document custom form fields and select the Change function.
Enter the print position(s) for the custom form fields.
Save the document format.
If you want to be able to reprint a dispatch invoice with the custom form information, you need to select the setup option: Save custom form for reprinting with dispatch invoices (Dispatch Notes Setup - Options tab). This ensures that custom form data that was captured against dispatch notes is saved for reprinting on dispatch invoices.
Print dispatch note custom form fields on dispatch invoices
This task describes how you can print custom form information defined against a dispatch note on the dispatch note invoice.
Custom form data is not printed on consolidated dispatch invoices. |
From the Sales Orders - Dispatch Notes menu, select the Dispatch Note Maintenance program.
Enter the dispatch note for which you want to attach custom form information.
Select the Custom form icon and enter the information you require.
Alternatively, you could attach the custom form information to the dispatch note header section when you create the dispatch note using the Sales Order Entry program.
Select the S/O Document Formats program.
Select the Invoice format you use to print dispatch invoices.
Select Preferences and then select the Change function.
From the Preferences screen, select the Print Options function.
Select the Preference: Dispatch invoice format - for custom forms.
From the S/O Document Format screen, select Document custom form fields.
Select the Change function and enter the print positions for the custom form fields.
Save the document format.
If you want to be able to reprint a dispatch invoice with the custom form information, you need to select the setup option: Save custom form for reprinting with dispatch invoices (Dispatch Notes Setup - Options tab). This ensures that custom form data that was captured against dispatch notes is saved for reprinting on dispatch invoices.