What Are Vendor Items?
Vendors often use different names or UPCs for the same product, which can make purchasing and inventory tracking confusing. Vendor Items lets you map vendor-specific item numbers to your own inventory items in ConnectStock — so everything lines up automatically when creating bills and purchase orders.
Step 1: Enable Vendor Items
Go to Stores & Files → Inventory Files → File Settings.
In the left panel, click Purchasing & Vendors.
Toggle on Vendor Items.
How to Use Vendor Items:
Navigate to ConnectStock → 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
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.
