This is particularly useful when the website is running alongside a bricks and mortar store and someone purchases an item in-store and the site owner wishes to keep a record of that sale on their website. Also useful if you take orders over the phone or via the postal system. It literally takes 10 seconds to create a manual order and have it appear alongside your online sales – enter the name of the person and their e-mail address (or enter dummy data which you can use as a way to track which orders were manually created) and then select the product(s) and quantities. Done!