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Status is the most load-bearing field on a schedule. The project Overview reads it, the Procurement view is organised around it, and it is how anyone else in the studio knows whether a piece is a suggestion or a delivery arriving on Thursday.

The main flow

An item normally travels left to right.
Approved is the status the project Overview counts. The Ready to order card is simply the number of approved items with no order against them — the gap between the client saying yes and you actually buying the thing.

The three that sit outside the flow

Setting the status

Three ways, depending on how many rows you are changing:
  • One row — the Status cell on any view, or the Details tab of the row’s Detail drawer.
  • Several rows — select them with the checkboxes on the left and set the status for all of them at once.
  • From chat — ask Atelier’s AI or the Claude connector to move items on, for example mark the dining chairs as ordered.

Where status shows up

  • Project OverviewReady to order counts approved-but-not-ordered items.
  • Procurement view — Organised around status, alongside PO, order date, shipping and tracking.
  • Client-facing documents — Shared schedules and PDFs show status, so the client can see what has shipped.
  • Financials — Rejected and reuse items are excluded from what the client will be charged.
Studios that keep status honest get a working procurement tracker for free. Studios that leave everything on Pending get a spreadsheet. It is worth ten seconds per row.