Purchase order field descriptions

This indicates the current stage the order is at in your purchases process.

Customize your statuses and sales workflow to match your own business processes, and define default statuses to be selected after performing specific actions. The status can be manually updated at any time. It's worth noting that statuses relating to inventory are automatically monitored using the order icon.

Learn more about purchase statuses here.

These icons give you further information on the status of the order with regards to inventory.

• The received icon indicates whether the items on the order have been received or not, whether in full or in part
• The drop-ship icon indicates whether your vendor has shipped items to your customer or not, whether in full or in part

Use this button to email or print documents relating to the order.

A default system template is selected depending on your settings, but you can manually change the template before printing or emailing.

Learn more about default templates.

Use this button to receive all or some of the inventory on the order.

Learn more about receiving inventory on purchase orders here.

Use this button to invoice the order

This will lock the order so no further changes can be made.

It will also create accounting to record tax and accounts payable (creditors).

All orders must be invoiced to update accounting. Invoicing will not affect inventory.

Save your order as you make changes and continue to edit.

Click the drop-down arrow on this button to view more options.

Take payment

Allows you to select a payment method in order to mark the order as paid.

Note this will not actually make a payment to a vendor.

This will completely remove the order.

Orders can only be deleted if they meet the following criteria:

• The order is not invoiced
• The payment total against the order is zero
• No inventory is marked as having been received against the order

Deleting an order completely removes it from the system - searching for the order number won't return any results. 

You may wish to use a "Canceled" order status instead in order to maintain an audit trail.

This option is only visible if you have landed costs enabled.

Clicking it will allow you to allocate landed costs to your order rows.

Learn more about landed costs here.

Clone a purchase order to a purchase credit to reverse an invoice.

Cloning will exactly copy the details of the purchase to a credit. However, please note that it is not possible to remove inventory using a purchase credit.

Learn more about returning items to a vendor here.

Cloning allows you to copy the order to create a new order. This can be useful if you need to place identical orders.

When cloning, you can include cross-references between the orders if desired.

Switch this order to a different vendor.

This option can only be used if the order meets the following criteria:

• The order has never been paid
• The order has never been invoiced
• No inventory has been received against the order

When adding orders, the invoice date will default to today's date.

You should change the date before invoicing the order to match the date of the invoice from your vendor.

Once an order is invoiced, this date is locked from further editing.

This will be calculated when the order is created using the invoice date and vendor's credit terms.

This date can be manually changed after invoicing.

Select a staff member who owns this order.

Assign the order to a team of staff members.

This will be automatically populated if the vendor record belongs to a team.

Assigning a vendor or order to a team means only member of that team can see those records. You can also view reports by team.

Use this field to record a reference from the vendor, likely their own purchase order reference for the order.

The lead source is used on sales to indicates where the order originated from, e.g. from a particular marketing campaign. If the purchase is cloned from a sale, it will inherit the sale's lead source.

Seasons allow you to have different sets of products depending on the time of year.

This will default to your current season if set and means you will only be able to search and select products that are within that season.

Learn more about seasons.

Use this field to search for products or services that have been set up in the products module.

If the vendor's price list uses vendor SKUs, those will be displayed upon adding the product.

This is where item names are displayed. Clicking into the box will allow you to add to or amend the description if required.

If the line is for a stock tracked product the inventory levels are displayed. 

Once the purchase has been saved a checkbox will appear next to each row, allowing you to select multiple rows to perform batch actions.

This is the account (nominal) code where the inventory asset for this line will be posted once the items are received (if stock tracked), or the cost for the line will be posted once the order is invoiced (if non-stock tracked).

This comes from the product record, but will be overridden if a code is set on the vendor record. The company default purchases code will be used for any miscellaneous lines.

This is the tax code assigned to the row, used to calculate the tax amount for each row.

The tax code is set against individual products/services, but will be overridden by rates set on the vendor account. The company default will be used for any miscellaneous lines.

The percentage the row is to be discounted by. It can be manually entered, but will be automatically populated across all line items if set against the vendor record.

To display this field go to Settings > Purchases > Purchase settings and set "Show list and discount columns on order edit screen" to "Yes".

Warning: This setting cannot be switched off once an order has had a discount applied!

The price being charged for the item.

If the list price and discount % fields are used this field will display the calculated price (list price less discount).

Tip: If the discount field is being used, the price field is not editable.

The tax amount of the row. The tax amount can always be edited.

Manually edited tax amounts will be highlighted in yellow.

Note: The tax column will only display if the order is set to 'Prices exclude tax' mode.

Click this button to receive inventory for the selected rows.

If any items remain unreceived on the order, tick the checkbox next to the relevant rows then click this button to split them to back order.

Learn more about back orders here.

Clicking this link will fetch the prices from the order's price list again.

Use this functionality if the price list on the order has changed or if you want to remove any manual price changes that were applied.

This is the price list used to get the buying price of products/services.

The price list used depends on where the order came from. When adding orders manually the price list will default to the vendor record.

This indicates whether prices on the order include or exclude tax.

This setting is applied automatically based on whether the price list is net or gross.

Displayed only for foreign currency purchases.

This displays the exchange rate being applied to convert the purchase into base currency for posting to accounts.

Note: Foreign currency purchases should always use a foreign currency price list.

Select from a predefined shipping method.

This field is only a note and will not add any charge to the order.

This is the warehouse where the inventory is to be sent to.

To apply settlement discount for early payment of the order, enter the percentage to be discounted and with how many days and then click 'Apply'.

Allows you to select a payment method in order to mark the order as paid.

Note this will not actually pay the vendor.

This will use the address marked as "default" on the vendor's contact record.

Where a vendor is part of a company, the default address from the primary contact will be used, unless there is a primary invoice address, in which case this will be used.

The contact name will remain as the person who placed the order; it will not be overridden by the primary contact.

The email address, telephone and mobile numbers are taken from the contact assigned to the order.

Click the Choose link to select a different address from the vendor record, or to search for an address from a different vendor record.

The contact name and company name specified in the default address populates the name fields in the purchases list.

This will always be the company address from the default channel brand.

If you have multi-warehousing switched on, this will always be the address of the warehouse assigned to the order. It will automatically update if a different warehouse is selected on the Products and prices tab of the order.

If multi-warehousing is not activated the address is taken from the default channel brand.

Use this link to view all addresses associated with the vendor record, or to search for an address linked to another vendor record.