Order Manager

The Order Manager application is intended for herd managers or farmers who provide food directly to consumers whose clients or shareholders are divided into distinct driving groups with their own pickup dates. The Order Manager application allows you to key in the incoming orders for each group, then print Pick reports to assemble the order and Detail reports to send back with each driver for billing purposes. Order Manager will track each member's milk usage and will indicate how many units are available and how many units have been used month to date based on the member's number of purchased shares. Order Manager can also print a Year End report, showing total item sales and total retail for a particular year for tax purposes.

This application is being made freely available to the raw milk community in the hope that it will reduce the overhead and barriers to entry involved in managing a herd share. If it is easier to start and keep a herdshare running then there will hopefully be more farmers willing to manage them. Consumers tend to fill up the available shareholder spots once word gets around, so more herdshare managers will result in more raw milk consumers. When there are enough raw milk consumers we will hopefully one day reach a tipping point when politicians, state bureaucrats and health officials will be forced to recognize the legitimacy of the raw milk movement.

If you find Order Manager useful please consider making a charitable donation to the Ohio Raw Milk Defense Fund. The Ohio Department of Agriculture has repeatedly gone beyond its lawful jurisdiction in harassing raw milk producers, causing undue financial hardship in defending their right to offer farm fresh foods. Legal expenses to defend the herdshare contract in Ohio have gone way beyond budget, and we are asking all raw milk supporters for financial help to meet this shortfall. Contributions of any amount can be sent and made payable to Ohio Raw Milk Defense Fund, 2618 Westmoor Rd. Rocky River, OH 44116. Your contribution is tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.

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Order Manager Features:

• Public domain and freely distributable.
• A stand-alone application for Windows 2000 or XP.
• Uses the open-source SQLite database.
• Has been used successfully since December 2005 by a manager with ~75 shareholders.
• Uses Adobe Acrobat Reader .pdf files for the output reports.
• Database contained in a single file that can be easily transported between computers.
• The application performs its own database maintenance and is simple to install and operate.
• Automatically detects and downloads new versions, when available.

Order Manager Documentation in Adobe .pdf format.

Download OrderMan and add-ons:

• Order Manager using SQLite v3.3.6. (Recommended for new installations. Uses a self-extracting installation utility.)
  
  
• Order Manager using SQLite v2.8.17. (Recommended only for compatibility with previous installations. Requires WinZip if you are not using Windows XP.)
  
  
• Conversion Utility for upgrading a v2.8 OrderMan database to the v3.3 format.
  
  
• SQLite Expert is a graphical utility for viewing and querying SQLite v3.3 databases.
  
  
• Order Manager release history.

Screen shots:

Sample Pick List report.
Sample Order Detail report.

All text copyright (c) Don Neeper 2006, 2007. All rights reserved.