Operations
Purchasing
Manage purchasing from need to invoice: requests for quotes, orders, receipts and checks.
Who it’s forBuyers, warehouse staff and managers; the whole team for purchase requests.
What you do with Purchasing
- Request quotes from up to 10 suppliers and compare their offers line by line
- Send numbered purchase orders as PDFs; suppliers confirm online
- Require approval for orders above a threshold and for internal purchase requests
- Receive goods by scanning with your phone, including partial deliveries, lots and expiry dates
- Check every supplier invoice against the order and the receipt
- Restock in one click: one draft order per preferred supplier
With the other apps
What Purchasing shares with its neighbors, with nothing typed twice.
- Inventory & warehouses (WMS)Receipts go into stock; the list of items to reorder comes here
- AccountingInvoices received in your documents are matched to the order, with no double entry
- ApprovalsOrders above the threshold and purchase requests follow your approval workflow
- Cash flow & forecastInvoices to pay and open orders feed your cash forecast
Not to be confused with
Expenses, Purchasing or Accounting?
An employee paid for something: Expenses. The company orders from a supplier: Purchasing. A bill received to approve and archive: the documents in Accounting.
Inventory & warehouses (WMS), Purchasing or Deliveries & routes?
Inventory tracks what you have, Purchasing brings goods in, and Deliveries takes them to your customers with your own drivers.
In the same area
Which plans include it
- Discovery: your free app of choice
- À la carte: added to your other apps
- Essential: as an add-on
- Complete: included, with every other app
Try Purchasing for free.
With the Discovery plan, Purchasing can be your free app, for up to 3 users. The other apps stay one click away.
