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title: Splitting Orders
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createdAt: 2025-06-10T11:42:31.393Z
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The **Split Order Items** feature in planeus lets you divide one Order Item into several smaller parts. This can be very useful if you want to produce or deliver parts of an order separately. 

# How Splitting Orders works?

- To split an Order Item, it must be in the **“Not Scheduled”** status.
- In the **Detail Panel**, click the **Split** button.

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This splits the original Order Item (called the **“Parent Order Item”**) into new, smaller items called **“Child Order Items.”**

# Special icons for Split Order Items

For split order items, they will have their own icons when viewing from the Order Items list.

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You can easily identify these in **Order Items**, plan them individually and filter them in one go.

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## Adding Child Order Items

- In the Split form, you can create multiple child orders.
- The **remaining quantity** is shown in the lower-left corner.
- It’s possible for the remaining quantity to go negative if you assign more to the child items than the original quantity in the parent.

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### Important Notes

- **Parent Order Items can no longer be scheduled** after splitting.
- The **Child Order Items work just like normal Order Items**:
  - You can schedule them.
  - You can edit them.
  - You can track them separately.
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