When dispensing, you select the workshop that your order is going to. If you generally use one workshop more than the others you can set a default workshop in the branches tab. When you go into the dispensing module, your default workshop will already be selected. This can be changed manually at the time of dispense if needed.

In the branches tab select your default workshop from the dropdown list. This list is populated from the suppliers tab.

Please note: You need to make sure that the supplier you select as a default workshop is assigned to your branch:

In the suppliers tab of Maintenance, highlight the supplier and click on the “Link to branch” button. Any branch that this supplier is linked to is listed in the top box. If you need to link your branch to the supplier, select the branch from the drop-down list and fill in any account details you need to in the boxes in the bottom half of the page and click on “add”, then “close”.

If you use remote edging and the orders are not sent to a workshop to be glazed but are put together in practice instead, you can create a supplier in the suppliers tab with the same name as your practice.