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Manage Supplier Product Assignments
What are Supplier Product Assignments? Supplier product assignments link your Ecwid store’s products (and variations) to specific suppliers. These assignments hold key details like supplier SKU, cost, minimum order quantity, and more — enabling you to manage suppliers efficiently, create purchase orders with the right supplier altogether, and ensure your catalog-to-supplier mapping is accurate. 1.…
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Manage Locations and Addresses
Why Configure Locations & Addresses? Properly defining which location serves as your shipping origin (where inventory is tracked) versus corporate addresses (which do not affect stock levels) ensures your POs and warehouse receipts update inventory correctly. Getting these definitions right prevents inventory mis-counts, ensures the correct “ship to” addresses appear on PDFs, and differentiates when…
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Manage Suppliers
Why Manage Suppliers? Your supplier list is the foundation of your purchasing workflow. Setting up and maintaining accurate supplier profiles ensures your purchase orders pull in the right terms, tax settings, addresses and contact details — which helps you avoid errors, speed up order creation, and maintain professional communications. 1. Viewing Your Supplier List 2.…
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Create a Warehouse Receiving Order
What are Warehouse Receiving Orders? When you receive goods from a supplier, creating a Warehouse Receiving Order (WRO) enables your system to correctly update inventory, track taxes or duties at the time of arrival, and document shipment details in your purchase-order history. The Supplier Purchase Orders app supports this by adding the WRO to an…
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Create and Update Purchase Orders
Create & Update PO Workflow Managing purchase orders is the heartbeat of your purchasing process. With the Supplier Purchase Orders app you’ll generate new POs, associate them with the correct supplier, ship-to addresses, track line-items, costs and taxes — and maintain the flexibility to edit before the PO is issued. This ensures your supplier workflows…
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Manage Purchase Orders
About Managing Purchase Orders Effectively managing your purchase orders ensures that every step — from order creation to receiving, fulfilment and closure — is tracked, documented and aligned with your sourcing workflow. With correct management, you’ll maintain clear supplier relations, accurate inventory updates and a reliable audit trail. Overview: Purchase Order States & Actions The…
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Store Order Search
What is the Store Order Search Tool? The Store Order Search tool allows you to scan your BigCommerce store’s orders in the “Awaiting Fulfillment” status, identify those with shipments, and directly generate corresponding purchase orders (POs) that ship to your customer’s address. When the resulting PO uses a direct-ship workflow (supplier ships to the customer),…
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Upload Inventory Thresholds CSV
What is the Inventory Thresholds CSV Upload? The Inventory Thresholds CSV upload feature enables you to bulk-set inventory thresholds (Target, Low, Critical) for your products at specific locations in your BigCommerce store using a single CSV file. Instead of manually editing hundreds of items one by one, you export your catalogue, add the threshold values,…
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Manage Suggested Purchase Orders
Before you set up suggested purchase orders, you’ll need to have suppliers, assigned products to suppliers, and thresholds set for your BigCommerce locations. Why Use Suggested Purchase Orders? Suggested Purchase Orders help you proactively replenish stock by identifying items that fall below your inventory thresholds. With the Supplier Purchase Orders app for BigCommerce, you can…
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Set Suggestion Thresholds
What Are Suggestion Thresholds? Suggestion thresholds are critical inventory control settings—by defining your Target, Low, and Critical inventory levels for each product (or variant) at a specific BigCommerce location, you enable the app’s suggested purchase-order engine to proactively detect when stock is running low and recommend replenishment orders. Prerequisites You Need Before Setting Thresholds Before…