My question involves bankruptcy in the state of: Florida

Hello I hope someone can help me, here is my problem: I am in the process of filing for chapter 7 the paperwork is being filled out but has not yet be submitted, my business has taken orders from customers and we are not going to be able to fulfill these orders, we did buy some parts to build what the customer ordered and there on the shelfs.

My Question is we still owe employees money can we sell the supplies or tools or anything in the business and pay off the employees?

we have not filed the paperwork but we also dont want the law to think we didnt have intentions of fulfilling the customers order as well, we do have the files of customers showing that we did buy parts for them.

What can we do?