Difference between revisions of "Sales Procedure"

Revision as of 11:15, 12 May 2023

The Augustan Society, Inc., as part of its mission to communicate, offers for sale reprints, back issues, and books. This page is an effort to document the Procedure for Sales when they come through our Online Store website.

1. An order is received by email or mail. The Assistant Treasurer confirms that payment has been properly made, and prints a hard copy.
   • If payment is not received, the order is placed in a tickle file, and if not received within two weeks, the order is transferred to the Assistant Secretary who will contact the buyer about completing his purchase.
2. The Assistant Treasurer checks the stock at Headquarters and attempts to fill the order. If the order is complete, skip to step 12.
3. The Assistant Treasurer annotates the paper order, giving the magazine issue(s) that Reprints are from, and giving the Omnibus Book number if a magazine or reprint was published there.
4. The Assistant Treasurer compares the annotated paper order to the PDF files available on the Server, and underlines those issues that have already been scanned.
5. The Assistant Treasurer puts the paper order on the “Sales” clipboard at Headquarters.
6. The Assistant Secretary, who normally visits the storage units at least weekly, takes the Sales clipboard with him on each trip.
7. The Assistant Secretary checks the stock and pulls such reprints and back issues as may be available. If the order is now complete, skip to step 12.
8. For each item that is not available, the Assistant Secretary will pull an original for scanning, unless the issue is marked as having been scanned.
9. Upon return to Headquarters, the Assistant Secretary will scan all originals needed, generating both PDF and OCR files. These will be transferred to the Back Issue Digitizing Study Group for processing.
10. The Assistant Secretary will print the remaining elements needed to fill the order, including covers for reprints. Some magazines published in the Augustan Society Omnibus may need covers designed.
11. When all items on the order are complete, the Assistant Secretary prepare mailing labels and the cover letter, stuff the order into a 9×12" envelope if possible, and prepare for mailing.
12. When the order will not fit into a standard envelope, it will be placed in either a larger envelope or a box as seems appropriate, applying mailing labels and prepared for mailing.
13. The annotated order form is placed in the files along with a copy of the cover letter and the order is mailed.

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