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web_interface:msupply_customer_setup [2019/08/05 05:03] – louweb_interface:msupply_customer_setup [2025/07/20 23:17] (current) – [Features and limitations] Mark Glover
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-====== 18.04 mSupply Customer Web Interface - setting up customers ======+====== 19.03. mSupply customer web interface ======
 ===== What is it? ===== ===== What is it? =====
 The mSupply Customer Web Interface allows the staff of Customers in your mSupply system to order stock from a [[other_stuff:virtual_stores|store]] in your mSupply system. It runs on a browser on any device: tablet, smartphone, net-book, desktop computer etc. The mSupply Customer Web Interface allows the staff of Customers in your mSupply system to order stock from a [[other_stuff:virtual_stores|store]] in your mSupply system. It runs on a browser on any device: tablet, smartphone, net-book, desktop computer etc.
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-===== Features and Limitations =====+===== Features and limitations =====
 The Customer Interface is designed to be used by staff of Customers in your mSupply system i.e. people working in places you supply. They could be people outside of your organisation. The Customer Interface is designed to be used by staff of Customers in your mSupply system i.e. people working in places you supply. They could be people outside of your organisation.
  
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   * **Create Orders**:  Orders for stock from the supplying store can be created, deleted and edited.   * **Create Orders**:  Orders for stock from the supplying store can be created, deleted and edited.
   * **Search Items**:  Search a list of Items available in the supplying store.   * **Search Items**:  Search a list of Items available in the supplying store.
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-Obviously, this interface is for ordering stock only so there is no place for batch number or expiry date to be displayed or selected in the Customer Interface.  However, mSupply does keep a record of the batch and expiry date of all stock issued to the Customer from the supplying store.+Limitations: 
 +  * As of 2025-07-21, this feature only works if the supplying store is active on the mSupply Central server.  Web orders are not synchronised to stores that are Active on remote sites. 
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 +Obviously, this interface is for ordering stock only so there is no place for batch number or expiry date to be displayed or selected in the Customer Interface.  mSupply does keep a record of the batch and expiry date of all stock issued to the Customer from the supplying store. 
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-=====  Connecting to the Customer Web Interface =====+=====  Connecting to the customer web interface =====
 Once the mSupply web server is running, your customers can access it by opening an internet browser on any device and navigating to //URL:PORT/customer/// where //URL// is the internet address of your mSupply server and //PORT// is the figure you entered into the //Run the webserver on port// field in the preferences mentioned in the section above  Once the mSupply web server is running, your customers can access it by opening an internet browser on any device and navigating to //URL:PORT/customer/// where //URL// is the internet address of your mSupply server and //PORT// is the figure you entered into the //Run the webserver on port// field in the preferences mentioned in the section above 
  
-An example is [[http://msupply.org:8080/customer/]]+With URL re-directing, you can create a web link like :  [[https://demo.msupply.org/customer/]]
  
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-Once it has been setup correctly, get your customers to bookmark the customer interface web page to save them typing it in every time.\\+Once it has been setup correctly, get your customers to bookmark the customer interface web page to save them typing it in every time. 
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 +Your customer can then use the following guide to login and order stock on-line. [[web_interface:msupply_customer_howto|mSupply customer web interface: guide for customers]] 
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