Purchase orders & factories
Set up factories, raise POs, and follow production from accept to ready to ship.
- 1Setting up a factoryAdd a factory record, choose its currency, add the people who receive purchase orders, and build its fabric library.
- 2Inviting a factory to the factory portalGive a factory's people a login so they can accept POs, report production and ship online, and understand what they see once connected.
- 3Creating purchase orders from ordersTurn confirmed customer orders into draft purchase orders, grouped by factory, with buy prices and ETDs filled in.
- 4Submitting a purchase order to the factorySend a draft PO to your factory through the portal or by email, see who was told, and keep track of the spec the factory was sent.
- 5Purchase order statusesWhat each PO status means, who moves the PO from one to the next, and how PO status affects your customer's orders.
- 6Choosing the delivery address on a PODecide whether a factory ships a PO to your warehouse or direct to your customer, and how that choice affects dates and shipments.
- 7Editing a PO and adding custom linesChange quantities and prices on a purchase order, add products or one-off charges as custom lines, and record freight costs.
- 8Holds and splitting a POPause work on all or part of a purchase order, release it again, and split a PO into two so parts can move separately.
- 9Factory change requests and price proposalsHandle a factory asking for changes to a PO, proposing new buy prices, or asking to add a custom line, and see what each decision does.
- 10Production photos and pre-production samplesSend the factory's production photos to customers for approval, and run a pre-production sample before bulk production starts.
- 11Garment Works perpetual POsIf your account has Garment Works switched on, how POs are added to a factory's ongoing Garment Works purchase order and what to do when resubmitting.