Brands and suppliers

A brand says who makes a product. A supplier says who you buy it from. They are separate lists, and a product carries one brand but can carry several suppliers.

Brands

Go to Catalog > Brands and select Add brand. A brand needs a Brand name and can carry a Description.

Set a product’s brand from the Brand dropdown in its Classification section. Brand is also a filter on the product list and a rule you can use in a product set.

Deleting a brand deletes nothing else. The products that used it are left with no brand and are otherwise untouched.

Suppliers

Go to Catalog > Suppliers and select Add supplier. Only Supplier name is required. Billing info and Shipping info each open as their own section and hold the contact and address you order against.

Link a supplier to a product from the Suppliers section on the product page. Each link carries its own Supplier price, Supplier code, and a Primary supplier switch, so you can hold two sources for the same product and compare what they cost you.

A supplier is what you raise a purchase order against, under Inventory > Purchase orders.

Deleting a supplier removes it from every product that used it and takes that product’s supplier price and code with it. Purchase orders you have already raised keep naming the supplier.

What next

• Classify a product: Create a product
• Group products by rule: Product tags and product sets