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34.1. Creating Purchase Orders
Purchase orders can be used to easily add inventory, as well as help track and simplify the ordering process from vendors who prefer to work with purchase orders.
To create a purchase order:
From the "Retail" menu, select the "Purchase Orders" link and then click the green "Create Purchase Order" button.
Before going to the purchase order editor, you must select a vendor for the purchase order.
If the selected vendor has associated retail items already defined, Arctic will pre-populate the purchase order with a list of all items available from that vendor to ease the ordering process. But you can also manually add items to purchase order that are not associated with that specific vendor or are not associated with a vendor at all. This option can come in handy if you use multiple vendors for some of your stock items.
Note: When you create or edit a retail item, there is a field to select a vendor. All of the items linked to that vendor will be available for purchase orders.
Alternately you may add items not associated with the selected vendor by using the "+ Add" drop down below the list of items on the purchase order.
In addition to specifying items for the purchase order, you can add notes and other miscellaneous charges to the purchase order (useful for including taxes and shipping costs).
Once your purchase order is complete, click the "Submit" button and Arctic will generate the purchase order and assign it a number. From the purchase order details page, you can print or email a PDF of the purchase order to the vendor.