# Orders

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Pakk is architected to support a wide variety of workflows and makes them simple to reason about, implement and manage.

### Getting Started <a href="#getting-started" id="getting-started"></a>

There's something fundamental you need to know about *sales orders* (and this applies to *purchase orders* too) in Pakk. **An order encapsulates its invoicing, dispatches and payments.**

What do we mean by this? Simply that all invoicing information, the list of dispatches and the list of payments are stored **within** the order record. Some other commerce and ERP systems create separate records for each invoice, dispatch and payment, so you might be used to that workflow. Just keep in mind that Pakk keeps all this together, under the umbrella of the *order*.