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Buying and receiving

Create a purchase order

Build an order in a single pass: supplier, variants, quantities, unit costs and the running total, on one screen.

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A purchase order in Purser is one screen. You pick the supplier, add the variants you are buying, and set quantity and unit cost per line. The total updates as you type.

The fields that matter

  • Supplier — who you are buying from. The order's bills and balances hang off this.
  • Location — where the stock will be received. Get this right at the start; it is where the inventory lands.
  • Unit cost — what you are actually paying, per unit, in the supplier's currency. This is the number that feeds weighted-average cost when the goods arrive.
  • Quantity — how many you ordered, not how many turned up. Those are different numbers and Purser keeps them apart on purpose.

Sending it to the supplier

Every purchase order can be downloaded as a PDF, on every plan, free. If your supplier wants it printed, uploaded to their portal, or attached to an email you write yourself, that is always available to you.

On Pro, Purser will email the PDF to the supplier's address for you, and record that it was sent.