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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.
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- 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.
- Items table
- Detail tab
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- 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.
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- 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.
- Shipping Address tab
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- Vendor Address tab
- All address and contact fields are auto filled when vendor field is selected. You may edit them if needed.
- Vendor Address tab
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- Memo tab
- Vendor Message: Select message from the list. You may add a new message if needed.
- Memo: Up to 1000 characters.
- Memo tab
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- Other tab
- Ship Via: Select ship-via from the list. You may add new ship-via if needed.
- FOB: optional
- Other tab
- Click Save