DESADV (dispatch advice)

A DESADV (Despatch Advice, dispatch advice) announces a delivery: which articles in what quantity are on the way, and how the shipment is packed.

Processing in the app

Incoming DESADV messages appear under Messages → DESADV. The app reads line items and quantities and prepares them for import. A DESADV can be exported as a CSV for goods receipt.

There is also a CSV export of only the not-found barcodes — the line items that matched no Shopify product. Send that list to your supplier to request a PRICAT for the missing articles. The action is greyed out when every line item was matched.

Line items in a delivery

In the message detail view, line items are grouped by product. Expanded, each row shows the line number, barcode, quantity, the matched product with its variant (e.g. color/size), and the line’s status. The product and variant stay visible even after the goods receipt has been created, so you can always check which sizes and colors are on the way.

Message status

Every message goes through a lifecycle (received → processed → transferred, or error). If a message stays in error status, see Troubleshooting.