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Intro – Purchase Order #

Purchase Order is an official document issued by your company to a vendor, specifying the types, quantities, and agreed prices for products or services required.

  • Purchase order is a non-posting transaction.
  • For inventory items, the purchase order updates the “Quantity on PO” field in the inventory balance.
  • You can easily convert purchase order to a bill.
  • You can receive inventory goods without a bill based on the purchase order by using Receive Items.
  • You can create a template from an existing purchase order for reuse.
  • The recurring PO feature is supported.

Create a Purchase Order #

  • Go to Purchase on the left sidebar, and select Purchase Orders
  • Click Add New button in the top right corner.
  • On the new order page, fill in the following fields
    • Order number is an auto generated number.
    • Vendor: Select the vendor for whom the purchase order is created.
    • Order Date: default is today.
    • Delivery Date: Date on which the items are expected to be delivered.
    • Currency: The transaction’s currency is automatically filled with the value defined in the vendor’s record.
    • Terms: Automatically filled with the value defined in the vendor’s record.
    • Drop ship: Select this option if goods are delivered directly to the customer rather than the company.
    • Draft: Select this option to save the order as a draft.
    • Detail tab
      • Items table
        • Click “Add Row” button to add new detail line or click “Open Dialog” button to add order detail line in the dialog.
        • Item. Select an item from the dropdown list. If the item is missing or not found, you need to create new item in Items -> Items app.
        • Description. Automatically filled when you select an item. You can edit it as needed. Maximum characters: 4096.
        • Quantity: Enter quantity.
        • Uom: Default unit of measure is Ea (each).
        • Unit Cost: Auto filled when you select an item, or you can enter it manually.
        • Amount: Equal to quantity multiplied by the rate. You can edit the amount, and the rate will be recalculated.
        • Taxable: Select this option if the item is taxable.
      • Tax Code: Select a tax code from the predefined codes. These must be set up under Tax → Tax Code.
      • Tax Rate: Auto filled when tax code is selected.  Tax rate field is editable, and system use it to calculate the excluded tax.
      • Excluded Tax: This is a calculated field and cannot be edited.
      • Tax Option: Tax Exclusive, Tax Inclusive or No Tax.
      • Shipping: Enter any additional shipping expenses, if applicable.
    • Shipping Address tab
      • Ship To (Site Location): acci.cloud supports multiple sites/locations. Select the site location where the goods should be delivered. If no site/location is set up, leave it empty, and the company’s address will be used.
      • Customer (for dropship): This field will appear if the “Dropship” option is selected. Choose the customer to whom the goods will be delivered.
      • Shipping Address, Contact, Phone, Fax and Mobile fields are auto filled when Ship to or Customer field is selected. You may edit them if needed.
    • Vendor Address tab
      • All address and contact fields are auto filled when vendor field is selected. You may edit them if needed.
    • Memo tab
      • Vendor Message: Select message from the list. You may add a new message if needed.
      • Memo: Up to 1000 characters.
    • Other tab
      • Ship Via: Select ship-via from the list. You may add new ship-via if needed.
      • FOB: optional
  • Click Save