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How to use Vendor Items

How to use and map Vendor Items to your Inventory Items.

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Written by Moishe
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Vendor Item Mapping

Vendors often use different names or UPCs for the same product, which can make purchasing and inventory tracking confusing. To solve this, you can now map vendor-specific items to your inventory items in ConnectStock.

Enabling Vendor Items

First you will have to Enable Vendor Items: Go to Stores & Files → click the Inventory Files tab → open File Settings → toggle on Vendor Items.

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How to Use Vendor Items:

  • Navigate to Inventory → Items → Vendor Items tab

  • Create a vendor item by clicking add new on top right or import via excel

  • Map each vendor item to your inventory item

  • If you prefer, you can set the vendors default Units of measure, or Vendor item cost

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Adding a vendor item to a bill or purchase order:

When creating a bill or purchase order, you can now select the vendor item number, and we’ll automatically identify the corresponding ConnectStock item that was purchased, we’ll also populate the vendor cost and unit of measure.

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