Clients who use Quickfile have asked for the facility to have a purchase order facility with a purchase inventory, not a stock control but just a purchase order list where they could create an inventory list of items they purchase regularly.
We have looked up this topic and it is something that a few are suggesting.
Perhaps something similar to your sale items inventory would be helpful including suppliers and the price. This will make it quicker to find and create purchase orders.
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As a volunteer run organisation this would be of great value to us as a short list of inventory items would be a lot easier for occasional users than working out which account to assign a purchase to.
For me, even if there was no tracking of received items against the original purchase order, it would be great to list items and show the quantity required in a separate field in the same way as the invoices.
I hope something comes of it.
Thanks for a great produce and wonderful support.
No movement here Iām afraid. However, if have any updates, providing youāve subscribed to this topic (itāll say āWatchingā at the bottom of the page), then weāll send you an email.
In the interim could you not just copy old purchase orders to save starting from scratch every time? Maybe even make one with all of the most common items on and then just copy it and then delete the not required lines.
Although this would be possible, the volume of regular orders I would need to copy into one PO would be too many, it would take me longer deleting the ones I donāt need each time I raise a PO.
The purchase orders themselves are rarely identical, it is individual line items that repeat, imagine a list of 300 different colours, with individual orders of any number of these colours typically 5-15 at any time.
I would definitely use an inventory system incorporated into Quick File. This is one of the only drawbacks I have found using this software.
The accounting software used before switching had a separate inventory system attached which updated the items when invoicing those items to customers. This helped a lot knowing what to order and who is buying what.
Would be a great addition to Quickfile in my opinion. Has there been any movement on the previous suggestions?
Hi @Dinky, there is an inventory system already for sales invoices (see link below). This thread is specifically about extending or creating a new inventory system for purchase orders.
In regards to the purchase order inventory, this remains something that we would like to look at but it will likely follow support for purchase order quantities.
Hi Glen,
Is there any movement on using the inventory list for purchase orders?
You already know how much i love quickfile, and i would migrate all my clients if i could - iām not asking for a full stock control system (although that would be fab too ), just the ability to pick up the item descriptions and pull them on to purchase orders. - in exactly the same way as you would for a sales order.
I also know that there is nothing ājustā about doing this - Iāve been sat with my client next to me seeing if we can do everything that they use their current system for , and this is the stumbling block - they were wowed until then.
thanks for your quick response - We would be happy to use exactly the same inventory list as the sales list - without purchase prices for now - if that would make it an easier/quicker enhancement, so we would just put the suppliers price into the order manually - just being able to lift an item description off the list would make a massive difference!
Iāll keep watching the thread - if you need any input - iād love to help!
As we are on the flat rate screen I find it difficult to use the purchase orders due to not showing vat which our suppliers prefer, I therefore produce direct purchase invoices and therefore spend many hours typing out all the recurring items we need to purchase,
Itās been on our list of things to do. However Iām pleased to say that it was implemented this afternoon, you can now use the inventory feature on your purchase invoices.
@Rob Iām afraid itās not something thatās on our mid to short term plan. You may however want to add your vote to the following feature discussion.
), just the ability to pick up the item descriptions and pull them on to purchase orders. - in exactly the same way as you would for a sales order.