search custom order field

Hi all - Is there a straightforward way to search on a custom order field?  We enter PO #s in a custom order field for school group visits, but have found that we often receive a payment from a district rather than the school that visited, and they rarely include our order #.  Makes it a bit time consuming to find the order and enter the payment.  Thanks for any assistance!

-David

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  • Hi David,

    We encounter this issue a lot as well.  We had someone in our IT department add our PO Number custom order field as a list criteria element so we can search for constituents who have a specific PO number.  Then once we find the constituent record we can access their order history and open invoices to put the payment where it needs to go.

    Hope this helps!

    Anne Mullane-Stevens

    Manager of Institutional Advancement Data & Operations

    Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum

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  • Hi David,

    We encounter this issue a lot as well.  We had someone in our IT department add our PO Number custom order field as a list criteria element so we can search for constituents who have a specific PO number.  Then once we find the constituent record we can access their order history and open invoices to put the payment where it needs to go.

    Hope this helps!

    Anne Mullane-Stevens

    Manager of Institutional Advancement Data & Operations

    Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum

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