Suppliers are the people you buy from. Add them once and purchasing and accounts both use them.
Adding a supplier
Open Purchasing, then Suppliers and press Add a supplier: name, mobile (for WhatsApp) and notes. It needs the "Manage suppliers" permission.
The usual supplier
For each product you can set the usual supplier. Then shortages split into one order per supplier automatically.
A supplier's account
Every shipment you receive from them is owed to them until you pay it. From Accounts you see for each supplier:
- What you received from them (your purchases).
- What you paid them.
- The balance you owe.
- An opening balance if you owed them before you started using Dawak.
- Payment terms: set the days you have to pay (for example 30) on the supplier. Each shipment then gets a due date, and Accounts shows what is overdue. Read Selling and buying on account.
Record every payment to the supplier with its date and method. A wrong payment is cancelled (it stays on the statement, crossed out) and the amount is owed again.
The supplier portal
A supplier needs no account: they receive the order link and answer it from their phone. Read Shortages and purchase orders.