Why no abililty to enter future purchase orders for new vendors and items not in current stock?

[Mannequinatsd]

Why do we not have the ability to enter future purchae orders for New vendors and itmes not in our current stock?  It would be great to be able to enter what we have on order and when it arrives be able to quickly transfer to inventory and print labels.  As it currently stands, the purchase order field is only for ordering additional items in stock or running short.  It would be nice to have both options.  

Thanks!

[kellyj]

@lukejj

Thanks for this request. It's definitely something we've heard before and we're committed to prioritizing feedback like this to make sure we have the products and features you are looking for.

I'm moving your request to a relevant thread where features like this have been discussed.  We'd suggest looking into Square for Retail, where the product and inventory services are dynamically changing and updated by feedback like this.

In the meantime, here is a little information on how our Feature Request Process works.

[Trish_Yarn]

@lior any updates?

[nika]

Hey @Trish_Yarn. Thanks for checking in! I checked in with our Retail Team and can confirm that this is still a feature request. We'll certainly post an update here if and when this changes. Thanks for your patience!

[Littlepnuts]

I second this request, especially with holidays and being a toy store. 

Currently, I either need to print the list (ridiculously long and waste of paper) or open the square dashboard in Explorer and another in Safari. This is the only way to cross-check and ensure I'm putting in what is needed.

It would be so much more efficient to order direct from the low inventory list. Click and add – adjust – send. 

Opening each item individually is very time consuming especially when creating a purchase order with over 400 units like I did last week.

Thanks so much!

[Helen]

Thank you @Littlepnuts, we'll share any updates with you here! 

[JSINGH]

I would like to utilize the Purchase Order feature with inventory management so that it automatically would add items for each vendor I use to a purchase order if the low stock alert threshold has been hit. 

At the moment I have to go through all of my inventory organized by low stock or out of stock alert and manually order by figuring out which items are from which vendor which takes longer than I would like it to. 

Unless I have missed some feature that already exists, I think this would be very useful and save a lot of people a lot of time!

[AshleyK]

Hey! Welcome to the Seller Community and thanks so much for posting this - as you know, it is a feature request to have low stock alerted items auto populate into a purchase order, but I really see how useful this could be. Inventory management is already a tedious job at times, and this would just take some of the pressure off. 

The best workaround I can provide at the moment is that you can duplicate an existing purchase order and edit it from there. While you will still have to double check if all the items are low on stock, it may save time if you have a consistent set of items that are always on your order list. 

I have also merged your post with an existing thread with this feature request so we can keep them all in one place. Thank you!

[Thegrooveshack]

am i missing something or is this another basic function that was overlooked? You cant use the vendor code of an item to create Purchase orders? this seems like a very basic option.

[Thegrooveshack]

and doesnt seem to be a way to search for a product using the vendors item code.

[JustinC]

Hey @Thegrooveshack - 

While you can't search your items using vendor codes, you can assign them to your products within the vendor's profile. That way, once you create a purchase order, the code will populate next to the item so the vendor knows which products to send out. 

However, I can see the convenience in simply plugging in a vendor code within Dashboard to pull up the associated item as well as an option to instantly create a PO for it.  

For now, I'm sending your ideas to the Retail Team so they consider your post when making improvements. Keep an eye out for any updates!