Sales Order Types define how a sales order behaves within Sprout and help categorize orders based on how they should be processed operationally. The order type is selected when a sales order is created and can affect system behavior such as whether the order can generate an invoice.

Organizations often use Sales Order Types to distinguish between different delivery runs, operational priorities, or internal workflows.

Preventing Invoice Creation

When creating or editing a Sales Order Type, you can control whether orders of that type are allowed to generate invoices.

If the Allow Invoice Creation option is unchecked, sales orders using that type cannot have an invoice number assigned or printed.

This is commonly used for order types such as:

• Estimate
• Internal planning orders
• Test orders

Orders with invoice creation disabled remain in the sales order system but will not move into Accounts Receivable.