Purchase orders in Mews POS are records of the goods you purchase from suppliers for inventory tracking and reporting purposes. You create a new purchase order in Mews POS when you order stock from your suppliers. You can quickly convert purchase orders to delivery notes when they are received, speeding up your record keeping operations.
Pre-requisites
Before you can add a purchase order in Mews POS you need:
- Inventory tracking activated on your account
- A supplier
- A warehouse
- An outlet
- inventory tracking on the items you wish to track
Creating a new purchase order in Mews POS
To add a purchase order from the Mews POS web dashboard:
- Click Inventory.
- Click Purchase orders.
- Click
.
- In the New Purchase Order screen, enter the following details:
- Purchase order no: Enter an order number for your reference.
- Supplier: Click the drop-down menu to select a supplier.
- Date: Click to select a date for the document.
- Time: Enter in a time for the document.
- Notes: Enter any notes for the purchase order.
- Click Add item to add a new item to the order. Note: You can also click Create product to create a new inventory tracked product. You can learn more about creating an inventory tracked product here.
- Enter the following details:
- Select product: Click the the drop-down to select a product to add to the order. Note: You can type into the search bar to quickly locate products.
- Ordered: Enter the quantity of the product you ordered.
- Package Price: Enter the price you paid for the item.
- Tax Rate: Click the drop-down to select the tax rate for this item.
- Repeat steps 5 and 6 for additional items on the purchase order.
- Optionally, you can click
to edit or click
to delete an item.
- Click Save.
This creates a purchase order in Mews POS.
Click Download as PDF to download a copy for your records or click transform to delivery to quickly convert this purchase order into delivery of stock.
You can learn more about inventory tracking here.