About the Purchases module The Purchases module allows you to create a business flow that goes from original purchase requests to the final order fulfillment, while keeping track of purchase order numbers, vendors, manufacturers, carriers, and products. The Purchases module allows you to keep track of purchasing and receiving for your company. Both the initial purchase requests and the final purchase orders (POs) go through a submission and approval process to ensure that all information is correct before orders are sent to vendors. To set up the purchasing process, you will first want to create products, as well as their associated vendors and manufacturers. You can also store various invoicing (or billing) and receiving (or shipping) addresses for you company that you can then use on your POs. You create carriers, allowing you to select your preferred carriers for purchases from particular vendors on your POs. You must also set up purchasers, since users cannot create POs unless they are each associated with particular purchaser records. Account tab The Account tab is where you create your manufacturers, vendors, carriers, products, accounts payable locations, receiving locations, purchasers, and shipping terms. Purchase Requests tab The Purchase Requests tab is where you create requests for purchases that need to be made. POs tab The POs tab is where you create purchase orders. Fulfillment tab The Fulfillment tab is where you create order fulfillment records. Reports tab You can access all available reports across all modules by clicking on the Reports tab. Options tab Clicking on the Options tab allows you to edit the layout of your purchase orders on the "PO layout" dialog box and the layout of your purchase requests on the "Purchase request layout" dialog box.