Sales Orders
A function crucial to some businesses that Xero lacks is the ability to create a sales order. We found a couple of workarounds that are not ideal, but they might do the job for you.
1. Use draft/unsent invoices
If you only need to keep track of orders for your own records, saving to draft invoices could be a solution for quickly seeing what's still outstanding. You'll be able to change the content of the draft, if needed, and only approve and send the invoice when you're ready.
Alternatively, if you also need a packing slip before invoicing, you could approve your invoice wihout sending (the draft doesn't allow printing a packing slip) and use unsent invoices as your way of tracking orders not yet invoiced. However, if you send statements to your customers, this option might not be practical as the unsent invoices will show on a statement.
2. Use quotes
If you don't use the quote facility, it can be repurposed to track sales orders, using your own process to decide what the draft, accepted, sent and declined statuses mean. Once your order is processed you can simply convert the quote to an invoice.