How do I Send a Purchase Order?
Power-eCommerce is one of the most powerful eCommerce PO system in the world it allows you to generate and send Purchase Orders to your distributors when an order is placed on your Store. This article will show you the basic steps of using this functionality.
Enabling the Feature
To Enable the PO system, follow these steps:
- Log into your Admin at http://admin.powerecommerce.com
- Using the left menu, go to Sales -> Orders
- Next, Select the order you want to process a Purchase Order(PO) for by clicking on "View".
- Then click on the PO's Tab of this order.
- For each item ordered there is a drop down selection to pick a vendor for that item (one my already be selected if that vendor is set as the default vendor for that item). Select the vendor you wish to use for each item ordered.
- You can generate multiple PO's with one click so if there are multiple items for different vendors that is fine the system is designed to generate as many PO's as needed for each order.
- Once you have selected the vendors now you have two(2) option 1. "Create PO's" or "Create PO's & Send" in most cases you will want to click on "Create PO's & Send" This will generate the right number of PO's and send them to the given vendors by API, EDI, XML, or Email depending on the vendors setup and requirements.
Additional Information
That all there is to send a Purchase Order to your Vendor, Supplier or Distributor. See the Video to see the process in action.
Note : We are a True Multi-Vendor system.
This means you can have more than one vendor for any item or product. 1 Product many vendors.
To continue, we will now process the PO and move it into the PO Queue.