Drop shipping
This section is applicable if the Use drop shipping checkbox is selected in Settings > Sales.
To create a purchase order to record an order that a supplier must dispatch directly to a customer:
- Do one of the following:
- To generate a purchase order based on a single sales order that includes products marked for drop shipping, select or open the document. Then click Generate > Purchase order: Drop shipping.
- To generate a purchase order based on multiple sales orders that include products marked for drop shipping, select them while holding down Shift or Ctrl. Then click Generate > Purchase order: Drop shipping.
- To create a purchase order from scratch, go to Purchases and under Purchases, click Purchase orders. Then, in the Purchase orders list, click Create.
- Specify general details:
- Set Operation to Purchase order: Drop shipping.
- Specify Supplier.
- Set Base document to a sales order that this purchase order is based on.
- Fill in the remaining fields as necessary.
- On the Products tab, specify products to purchase from a supplier:
- To fill in products automatically from the base document, click
next to the Base document field.
This option is only available if you filled in the Base document field in the general details. - To fill in products automatically from the source RFQ response, click
next to the RFQ response field.
This option is only available if you filled in the RFQ response field in the general details. - To fill in products automatically from a sales order or another document for which the purchased goods are reserved for, click
next to the Reserve for field.
This option is only available if you filled in the Reserve for field in the general details. - To import product list from a spreadsheet file, click
and follow the data import wizard instructions.
- To select products from the Products catalog, on the Products tab, click Select. For details, see Product selection in business documents.
- To add products manually, click Add and fill in product details. For details, see Products tab.
- To find products by barcode, click
.
- To fill in products automatically from the base document, click
- Optional: On the Payment terms tab, specify payment terms.
If the purchase order is for a supplier with billing details specified, the payment terms are prefilled from these details. You can edit them.
- Optional: On the Delivery tab, review and, if required, change the delivery terms of the purchase order. This step applies only if you generated the purchase order from a sales order with the delivery terms filled in.
- Optional: On the Additional information tab, specify additional information about the purchase order.
- Click Post and close.