Understanding Order Numbering Options in NX

🔢 Understanding Order Numbering Options in NX

NX provides several Order Numbering Schemes that determine how order numbers are generated, displayed, and incremented within your venue.
Choosing the right scheme helps maintain clear order tracking and aligns with your venue’s operational workflow — whether you prefer unique global order numbers, per-station sequences, or random identifiers.

⚙️ Overview

Order numbering in NX is flexible and can be configured based on how your operation manages orders across stations, days, and business units.

Each order numbering option defines:

• Whether order numbers reset daily or continue indefinitely.
• Whether numbering is unique per station or shared across all stations.
• Whether order numbers follow a sequential or random pattern.

🧩 Order Numbering Options

1. Per Station Per Day

Order numbers are incremented for each station and reset daily.

• Each station starts at order number 1 at the beginning of the next business date.
• Numbers are prefixed by the station number, followed by a 5-digit sequence (with leading zeros).
• This ensures station-specific numbering and easy identification of the originating station.

Example Scheme:

💡 Best for: Venues that prefer clear separation between stations and daily resets, such as multi-terminal quick-service environments.

2. Per Station Continuous

Order numbers are incremented for each station, but the count does not reset daily.

• Each station maintains its own continuous counter.
• Numbers are still prefixed by the station number and formatted using the same 5-digit scheme.

Example:
If Station 1’s last order yesterday was 100250, its first order today will be 100251.

💡 Best for: Venues that track long-term order trends per station or want continuous sequencing without daily resets.

3. Global Continuous

Order numbers increment across all stations continuously without resetting.

• Each new order, regardless of which station it originates from, receives the next global sequential order number.
• Ensures each order is globally unique within the venue (and even enterprise-wide, depending on setup).

Example Sequence:
10001, 10002, 10003, … — shared across all stations.

💡 Best for: Single-terminal or enterprise environments where consistent global numbering simplifies reporting and order lookup.

4. Global Per Day

Order numbers increment across all stations, but reset daily at the end of the business date.

• Provides globally consistent numbering within each business day.
• All stations share the same counter, but numbering restarts at 1 the next day.

Example:

💡 Best for: Venues that require unified numbering within a day but prefer daily reset for reporting clarity.

5. Random

Order numbers are randomly generated and never reused.

• Each order receives a unique randomly assigned number.
• Randomized numbering helps obscure order sequencing or reduce guessability of order volumes.
• While NX strives to have this number truly be random, the probability of reuse of a number is 1 in 2,000 iterations (0.05%)

Example Sequence:
84327, 15702, 93651, 46209 …

💡 Best for: Environments that value security or anonymity in order tracking over sequential order visibility.

🧮 Order Number Format (Per Station Schemes)

For Per Station Per Day and Per Station Continuous schemes, order numbers follow a consistent, station-prefixed format:

[Station#][Order#]

The order number portion always includes five digits with leading zeros for consistent length.

Examples:

🧠 Choosing the Right Numbering Scheme

✅ Summary

💬 Key Takeaway

NX gives you the flexibility to manage order numbering based on your business’s operational needs — whether you need daily resets, continuous numbering, or randomization for enhanced security and data control.