Sage 50 Accounts For Dummies® 2nd Edition

Chapter 11

Processing Purchase Orders

In This Chapter

Making up a purchase order

Giving goods on order status

Finishing up the purchase order process

Accepting delivery of goods against your order

Generating an invoice

Cancelling and deleting purchase orders

If you have Accounts Professional, Sage helps you process your purchase orders. If you don’t have this version of Sage, you can skip this chapter.

You raise purchase orders for goods that you place on order with your suppliers. The purchase order processing (POP) system is directly linked to other parts of your system: it updates stock records and project records if you’re using these functions of Sage.

In this chapter, I cover the stages that a purchase order goes through.

Creating, Changing and Copying a Purchase Order

When you order supplies, materials, widgets or similar, you need to create a paper trail – or at least an electronic ...