<h1>Stopping a Sales Order</h1>

In the submitted Sales Orders, you will find **Stop** option. Stopping Sales Order will restrict user from creating Delivery Note and Sales Invoice against it.

![stop Sales Order]({{docs_base_url}}/assets/img/articles/$SGrab_439.png)

####Scenario

East Wind receives an order for ten laptops. Sales Order is also created for ten units. Due to scarcity of stock, only seven units are delivered to customer. Pending three units are to be delivered soon. Customer inform East Wind need not deliver pending item, as they have purchased it from other vendor.

In this case, after East Wind will create Delivery Note and Sales Invoice only for the seven units of Laptop, and set Sales Order as stopped.

![Sales Order Stopped]({{docs_base_url}}/assets/img/articles/$SGrab_440.png)

Once Sales Order is set as stopped, you will not have pending quantities (three in this case) reflecting in Pending to Deliver and Pending to Invoice reports. To make further transactions against Stopped Sales Order, you should first Unstop it.

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