The customer paying does not complete the order. Someone still has to find the right product, confirm the quantity and variation, prepare the package, dispatch it, update the customer, and resolve anything that disagrees.
The sales-to-warehouse handoff
When fulfilment lives in another private chat, paid orders can wait without a visible owner. Sales assumes the warehouse is handling it. The warehouse lacks the exact product or location detail. The customer follows up, and the team begins reconstructing the order.
Use controlled stages
- Release approved payment work into picking.
- Create the picking tasks for the linked transaction.
- Record completed lines and issues instead of clearing problems silently.
- Move resolved work to confirmation.
- Return a confirmation mismatch to a recorded recovery state.
- Record dispatch, package activity, notes, and exceptions.
- Keep delivery and customer follow-up visible until the work is resolved.
Exception recovery matters
A short pick, wrong variation, damaged item, or package mismatch is not an inconvenience to hide. It is work. The resolution should show what action was taken, who acted, and whether the order can proceed.
What management should review
Paid-but-unpicked orders, open picking issues, confirmation mismatches, dispatched-but-unresolved packages, customer updates, and the next responsible action should be reviewable without searching WhatsApp again.