Suppliers¶
Who you buy from: their phone number, your account number with them, what they supply and what has come from them.
Where: menu → Inventory → Suppliers. With Food Safety switched on it is also menu → Food Safety → Suppliers: the same list. Their MPI registration, certificates and receiving checks are described on Food Safety suppliers.
Where suppliers come from¶
Most start at the dock. When you receive a delivery, type the supplier's name; a name you have not used before becomes a new supplier. Fill in their details here later, when you have a minute.
Add supplier makes one before any delivery arrives.
Every shop in your account shares the one list: the same wholesaler delivers to all of them.
One supplier¶
Tap a supplier to open it.
| Field | Put |
|---|---|
| Name | As you want it on screen. Two suppliers cannot share a name. |
| Contact person | The rep, or whoever answers the phone |
| Phone, Email | For ordering and for questions about an invoice |
| Website or ordering portal | Where you order online, if you do |
| Your account number with them | What they ask for when you phone an order in |
| Address, MPI registration number, Certificates | For your food safety records. See Food Safety suppliers. |
| Notes | Cut-off times, delivery days, anything worth remembering |
Nothing is kept until you press Save.
Underneath:
| Section | Shows |
|---|---|
| What they supply | Everything that has come from them on a delivery, with their code for it and the outer it comes in when you have typed them. Filled in by each delivery you save; you can also add a supplier to an item on its stock page. |
| Deliveries here | This shop's recent deliveries from them, with the invoice number and total. Tap one to open it. |
Their codes¶
A supplier's invoice prints their own code beside each line -- often not your barcode. When you type that code on a delivery line, it is remembered for that supplier, so next time:
- the line already shows it, and
- typing the code in Scan or search on a delivery from them finds the item.
A product in sizes has a code per size, because each size is its own item.
You can also type or change a code on the item itself: Inventory → Stock → the item → Suppliers. See Stock.
No longer buying from them¶
No longer buying from them, at the bottom of a supplier, puts them away. They leave the list and are not offered at the dock, and every delivery and code that names them is kept. Show ... you no longer use at the bottom of the list brings them back into view, and Buying from them again returns them.
Typing a put-away supplier's name at the dock brings them back too, rather than making a second one.
Good to know¶
- Whether their prices include tax, and whether weighed boxes are charged by the box, are not set here. Each delivery starts the way the last one from the same supplier finished, which is always up to date.
- Suppliers are never deleted, only put away.
- Ordering from a supplier inside the app is coming.