The purpose of an ‘Outside Work Order’ is to allow you to track hours for resources that were acquired outside of the ProductSage ordering system.

Most commonly, this feature is used for hourly resources so they can log their taime against a specific order. For example, a Virtual Assistant on your team might bill you on the first of every month for the work they did the previous month. To manage this activity in ProductSage, create an outside work order for the current month with 0 Hours and have your VA log their activity for the month against that order. This will show a negative balance of hours until you pay your invoice and edit the Hours to reflect the invoiced hours which will bring your Hours Remaining balance to 0.