The Elliott Sales Order Import Utility is an Elliott add-on product and can be used to import ASCII files generated from other third party applications. The Sales Order Import Utility is designed to import a pre-defined ASCII flat file to create COP sales orders in Elliott. It is intended to provide an easy way for third party developers to create add-on solutions for creating sales orders. This includes EDI (850), capturing sales orders from a website, or using a portable device. Since third party developers do not need to know how to allocate inventory, determine pricing, commission, or sales tax, or update various different files that are required to create COP sales orders, the task is easy to accomplish. The formatted ASCII flat file is available from NETcellent System, Inc. The only required information is the customer number and item number. Any information not present will be assumed to be a default value.