This program was developed to address those companies needing to stage back ordered items on an order until all items are available to ship. A sales order not ready to ship can have a status of backorder or staged. The program actually has four parts. The first utility allows you to mark the order as backorder or staged. You backorder orders that you intend to ship as soon as you have the product. Customers that do not want you to ship an order until you can ship all items on the order at the same time, you mark as having a status of "Staged". The second part of the program allows you to change the status of items on the order. This feature is used for manually marking items as back ordered or removing items that can now be shipped and are now staged with the rest of the items on the order.. The third part is the reporting program which will show you what items have a partial shipment, a backorder or orders marked as staged orders allowing you to manually control the direction of inventory as it becomes available. This report can be run by date range, for a particular customer, a particular item, or a particular sales order number. An additional feature has been built into the process which is a reporting utility that allows the user to print a "ready-to-ship" report. The report can be run on demand or continuously. When continuous run is desired, you can set the interval for run time in 1/2 hour increments. Any printer on your network can be selected to receive the report. An optional feature has been added to automatically update the backorder quantities. If you want tighter control over the process, you simply uncheck the update box when running the report and no update will occur. Or if you want, you can check the update box and uncheck the report box and just have the report process updates without printing a report. This report works well if you receive purchase orders into the accounting system throughout the day. This program does not require modifications to Pro Series.