Suppliers

In short

Stock | Products → Purchase planning → Suppliers tab is your own supplier register. It does not depend on the store: a store supplier can be linked to it, but the cards, prices and costs belong to you. Purchase planning draws from the register — the last supplier price comes from the preferred offer together with its currency.

Supplier card

Add one with Add supplier. It holds the name, internal code, contact, the default currency of purchase prices, the default lead time in days and a note. A supplier can be deactivated — it disappears from the list and from calculations while the history stays.

The list is searchable by name, code or email. Each row shows the number of products and offers plus the actions Edit · Duplicate · on/off · Delete. Only a supplier without historical documents can be deleted; one with documents is deactivated instead, so the documents keep their addressee.

Product offers

Expand a card to add an offer: the link between a supplier and a specific product.

Field	Purpose
Purchase price + currency	The currency sits next to every price — you can buy in dollars and euros at the same time. An empty currency inherits from the supplier card.
Supplier SKU	The product code in the supplier’s price list.
MOQ	Minimum order quantity.
Quantity breaks	Unit price from a given quantity, e.g. cheaper from 50 pieces.
Lead time (days)	Overrides the supplier default for this product.
Pack size	How many pieces per pack.
Production cost	For own production or private label.
Preferred supplier	When several suppliers offer the product, planning uses this one. At most one is preferred.

Cost components

Shipping, customs, handling, packaging or production are recorded as entries on the supplier card. Each entry has a type from the directory and an allocation method: fixed amount, percent of value, per unit, per kilogram or per package.

The Cost types directory is shared by all suppliers. You can rename the defaults and add your own — a new cost type needs no system change.

Public and internal suppliers

The list has two parts:

• Your (public) suppliers — the supplier shown on the store to your customers, usually you or your own brand. Loaded from the store automatically: the card appears by itself, linked to all your stores, the name is taken from the store and products count towards it with no extra step. A card linked to a store cannot be deleted (it would come back on the next load) — deactivate it instead.
• Internal suppliers — suppliers you buy from or manufacture with, holding the prices, MOQ and lead times purchase planning builds on. Customers never see them.

The kind can be switched on the card. The register stays the source of truth — the store is one of the sources, not the owner of the data.