Chapter 12. Customer Deliveries

How Do I Stop a Supply?

MrNews will capture the information entered and display the next day’s stop/start information automatically when the program is started. There is no need to maintain a manual diary of stops/starts. Multiple stop/starts dates can be input for the one customer at the same time by repeating the steps for each period.

  1. Move to the customer that you wish to stop. Use the F3 key or
  2. Click
  3. Click on and the pop up will appear as below
  4. Enter the of the publication that will be first to stop. See The Tip Above in Chapter 9
  5. Move to and enter the relevant Stop Code by using the drop down list. You must enter a stop code, skip it and the stop will not capture.
    Note!! Using the Z code, on holidays, will automatically delay the production of the customers invoice until they return. The next invoice run after they recommence will produce an invoice from the stop date.
  6. Move and enter the first Restart if you have one. All of the
    publications that are to restart will automatically default to the first commencing date when  is chosen in step 10.
  7. If you are stopping and restarting all of the publications then click on and and all of the publications listed will be ticked.
    If you only need to stop individual publications then move to the publication box and tick the publications that are to be stopped and the start box if you have a recommencing date. Do not tick the start box otherwise.
  8. If the publication is no longer required then click the end box after you have clicked the stop box. This will move the publication into the customer’s history.
  9. Move to
  10. The information will be noted on the customer file under Start/Stop. You will see that the publication stop and restart dates (if any) have captured automatically.

Note!! Details of the publication will remain on the customer file until the stop date passes. The information will then transfer to the customer history. Move your mouse to and click. The customers past stop/start history will appear. Click again on to return to the current history. You will not be able to complete the function until a box is ticked.

Last edited: 8th January, 2009