# Enter Open Sales Orders

If your company ships products and invoices customers using sales orders, follow the steps below to enter all open (not shipped or invoiced) sales orders:

* [ ] Get an Sales Order Detail list report from your previous accounting system, which you wish to transfer. It should include all sales order that are still open.  If a sales order has been partially billed, only enter the uninvoiced amount of the sales order.
* [ ] Access the Sales Order transaction from the Sales\Sales Order menu and start a New Sales Order.
* [ ] Enter all unvinvoiced amount from the Sales Order Detail list report.
* [ ] Print a Sales Order Detail report and compare it to the report from your previous accounting system.