Lesson 5 of 10 · 3 min

Ordering from your suppliers

Purchase orders keep track of what's coming from whom, and receiving one puts it on the shelf, all at once or a box at a time.

  1. A purchase order is stock you've ordered from a supplier: who it's from, what's on it, what each costs you and when it's due. Raising one never changes your stock; receiving it does.

  2. Inventory → Purchase orders

    Under Products → Purchase orders, press New purchase order, or Reorder low stock on the Stock page to start one with everything running low, quantities filled in. Place it once it's gone to the supplier; Email the order to them writes the email for you.

  3. Receiving

    When it comes, open it and press Receive delivery. Everything still to come is filled in, so a full delivery is one tap; change the numbers for a part one. The rest stays on order until it comes.
  4. Anyone waiting for something sold out is emailed the moment it's received, and the stock history names the purchase order it came from. The rest isn't coming? Close it as it stands. Nothing arrived at all? Cancel it.

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Raise a purchase order

Quick check

2 quick questions. Pick an answer and Offy will tell you how you did.

1. Half of a delivery from your supplier has come. What do you do?
2. Does raising a purchase order add to your stock?

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