diff --git a/src/features/store-admin/orderStatus.test.ts b/src/features/store-admin/orderStatus.test.ts
index fc60001..2846042 100644
--- a/src/features/store-admin/orderStatus.test.ts
+++ b/src/features/store-admin/orderStatus.test.ts
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import {
   DELIVERY_STATUS_TABS,
   ORDER_STATUS_TABS,
 } from './orderStatus';
+import { UNMIRRORED_STAGES } from './orderProgress';
 
 /* Set after the imports on purpose, and it still takes: `billedAtMs` reads the
    zone when it is CALLED, not when this module loads, and assigning TZ calls
@@ -247,3 +248,50 @@ test('the delivery strip offers the whole ladder', () => {
     ['All', 'Pending', 'Accepted', 'Arrived', 'Picked', 'Active', 'Skipped', 'Rejected', 'Delivered', 'Cancelled'],
   );
 });
+
+/*
+The orders table shows one vocabulary and used to filter by another.
+
+`orderStage` resolves each order row to the stage its DELIVERY reached, because
+`orders.orderstatus` sits on `pending` from the moment a rider is assigned until
+the parcel is dropped. So the column read "Picked" while the tabs filtered on
+"pending": the row sat under Pending, there was no Picked tab to find it in, and
+the counts described a set nobody could see.
+
+The strip now carries every word that column can display.
+*/
+
+test('every stage the orders table can display has an order tab', () => {
+  // The six the order row is never told about, plus the ones it is. If the
+  // column can render it, an operator must be able to filter to it.
+  for (const status of [...UNMIRRORED_STAGES, ...LIVE_ORDER_STATUSES]) {
+    const hits = ORDER_STATUS_TABS.filter(
+      (tab) => tab.key !== 'all' && matchesStatus(tab.key, status),
+    );
+    assert.equal(
+      hits.length,
+      1,
+      `"${status}" is shown on an order row but matched ${hits.length} tabs`,
+    );
+  }
+});
+
+test('an order mid-delivery is filed under the stage it shows', () => {
+  // The whole bug in one assertion: a row displaying "picked" must not answer
+  // to the Pending tab, or pressing Picked finds nothing and pressing Pending
+  // shows a row labelled Picked.
+  assert.equal(matchesStatus('picked', 'picked'), true);
+  assert.equal(matchesStatus('pending', 'picked'), false);
+  assert.equal(matchesStatus('arrived', 'arrived'), true);
+  assert.equal(matchesStatus('pending', 'arrived'), false);
+});
+
+test('created stays on the order strip and off the delivery one', () => {
+  // The one word that is genuinely order-only — a delivery is never created,
+  // it is requested. Losing it would drop every brand-new order into All alone.
+  assert.ok(ORDER_STATUS_TABS.some((tab) => tab.key === 'created'));
+  // Widened on purpose: the key union already proves `created` is not a
+  // delivery tab, and TypeScript rejects the comparison outright. The runtime
+  // check stays because the union is what a future edit would change first.
+  assert.ok(!DELIVERY_STATUS_TABS.some((tab) => (tab.key as string) === 'created'));
+});
diff --git a/src/features/store-admin/orderStatus.ts b/src/features/store-admin/orderStatus.ts
index 12216f6..70a4beb 100644
--- a/src/features/store-admin/orderStatus.ts
+++ b/src/features/store-admin/orderStatus.ts
@@ -114,10 +114,33 @@ export const statusColor = (map: Record<string, string>, status: string | undefi
  * else, so an operator working through the tabs never sees those rows at all.
  * That is the failure this list is checked against.
  */
+/*
+ * ── Why the order strip carries the delivery stages too ─────────────────────
+ *
+ * It used to be the five words an order row writes about itself. But the orders
+ * table does not SHOW those words any more — `orderStage` resolves each row to
+ * the stage its delivery reached, because `orders.orderstatus` sits on
+ * `pending` from the moment a rider is assigned until the parcel is dropped,
+ * and an operator staring at "pending" cannot tell a job nobody has accepted
+ * from one already on a bike.
+ *
+ * So the table showed `Picked` and the tabs filtered on `pending`, and a row
+ * labelled Picked lived under the Pending tab with no Picked tab to find it in.
+ * The screen displayed one vocabulary and filtered by another.
+ *
+ * The strip now carries every word the column can display. `created` stays,
+ * because an order reaches it and a delivery never does.
+ */
 export const ORDER_STATUS_TABS = [
   { key: 'all', label: 'All' },
   { key: 'created', label: 'Created' },
   { key: 'pending', label: 'Pending' },
+  { key: 'accepted', label: 'Accepted' },
+  { key: 'arrived', label: 'Arrived' },
+  { key: 'picked', label: 'Picked' },
+  { key: 'active', label: 'Active' },
+  { key: 'skipped', label: 'Skipped' },
+  { key: 'rejected', label: 'Rejected' },
   { key: 'delivered', label: 'Delivered' },
   { key: 'cancelled', label: 'Cancelled' },
 ] as const;
diff --git a/src/features/store-admin/pages/SalesPage.tsx b/src/features/store-admin/pages/SalesPage.tsx
index 03893b1..01be0db 100644
--- a/src/features/store-admin/pages/SalesPage.tsx
+++ b/src/features/store-admin/pages/SalesPage.tsx
@@ -141,19 +141,28 @@ export function SalesPage() {
   const importedBills = useMemo(() => everyOrder.filter(isCounterSale), [everyOrder]);
   const allDeliveries = deliveries.data ?? [];
 
+  /* How far each order has actually got. The order row is only ever told
+     pending/delivered/cancelled, so the six stages in between are read off the
+     deliveries list — same window, same query, no extra fetch. See gap D in
+     `orderProgress.ts`.
+
+     Built here, above the filter, because the filter and the tab counts now
+     read the same resolved word the table renders. */
+  const stages = useMemo(() => deliveryStageFrom(allDeliveries), [allDeliveries]);
+
   /*
-   * Filtered on the ORDER ladder, deliberately, even though the chip now shows
-   * the delivery stage.
+   * Filtered on the word the row actually SHOWS.
    *
-   * `ORDER_STATUS_TABS` has no Picked or Arrived tab — an order never reaches
-   * those words — so filtering on the stage would drop every order in progress
-   * out of every tab except All. Under Pending the rows are the outstanding
-   * orders, which is what Pending means here, and the chip says how far along
-   * each one is. The tab counts stay on the same footing for the same reason.
+   * This used to filter on `row.orderstatus` while the chip rendered
+   * `orderStage(...)`, on the reasoning that the order strip had no Picked or
+   * Arrived tab to put those rows in. That reasoning held the wrong end: a row
+   * labelled Picked sat under the Pending tab, there was no Picked tab to look
+   * in, and the counts described a set the operator could not see. The strip
+   * carries those tabs now, so the filter follows the column.
    */
   const orderRows = useMemo(
-    () => allOrders.filter((row) => matchesStatus(status, row.orderstatus)),
-    [allOrders, status],
+    () => allOrders.filter((row) => matchesStatus(status, orderStage(row, stages).status)),
+    [allOrders, status, stages],
   );
   const deliveryRows = useMemo(
     () => allDeliveries.filter((row) => matchesStatus(status, row.orderstatus)),
@@ -219,17 +228,31 @@ export function SalesPage() {
    */
   const statusTabs = tab === 'deliveries' ? DELIVERY_STATUS_TABS : ORDER_STATUS_TABS;
 
-  /** Counts for the tab strip, from the unfiltered set. */
+  /**
+   * Counts for the tab strip, from the unfiltered set.
+   *
+   * Read through the same resolution the rows are filtered and rendered by. A
+   * count taken from `row.orderstatus` while the tab selects on the stage is a
+   * number describing a different set from the one that appears when it is
+   * pressed — Pending would say 41 and then show 6.
+   */
   const tabCounts = useMemo(() => {
-    const source = tab === 'deliveries' ? allDeliveries : allOrders;
+    const statusOf =
+      tab === 'deliveries'
+        ? (row: DeliveryRow | OrderRow) => row.orderstatus
+        : (row: DeliveryRow | OrderRow) => orderStage(row as OrderRow, stages).status;
+
+    const source: (DeliveryRow | OrderRow)[] =
+      tab === 'deliveries' ? allDeliveries : allOrders;
     const tabs = tab === 'deliveries' ? DELIVERY_STATUS_TABS : ORDER_STATUS_TABS;
+
     return Object.fromEntries(
       tabs.map((entry) => [
         entry.key,
-        source.filter((row) => matchesStatus(entry.key, row.orderstatus)).length,
+        source.filter((row) => matchesStatus(entry.key, statusOf(row))).length,
       ]),
     ) as Record<StatusKey, number>;
-  }, [tab, allOrders, allDeliveries]);
+  }, [tab, allOrders, allDeliveries, stages]);
 
   const counterTotals = useMemo(() => {
     const fromTills = posSummary.reduce(
@@ -285,12 +308,6 @@ export function SalesPage() {
      for a rider again, and without this the delivery row left behind keeps
      them out of every assign surface for good — see `releasedFrom`. */
   const released = useMemo(() => releasedFrom(allDeliveries), [allDeliveries]);
-  /* How far each order has actually got. The order row is only ever told
-     pending/delivered/cancelled, so the six stages in between are read off the
-     deliveries list — same window, same query, no extra fetch. See gap D in
-     `orderProgress.ts`. */
-  const stages = useMemo(() => deliveryStageFrom(allDeliveries), [allDeliveries]);
-
   const branchOf = useMemo(
     () => (row: OrderRow) => branches.find((branch) => branch.locationid === row.locationid),
     [branches],