Suppliers - Spree Commerce documentation

A supplier is someone you buy stock from. Keeping them as records means a Purchase Order names its supplier once, and the supplier’s contact details and address travel with it. To manage suppliers, open Suppliers under Inventory.

Adding a supplier

Click New supplier and fill in:

Field	What it is for
Name	How the supplier appears on purchase orders. Must be unique
Contact name	Who you deal with there
Email, phone	How to reach them
Address	Where they are. A complete address — street, city and country — is what lets a purchase order be posted to them
Notes	Anything your team should know — account numbers, lead times, who to ask for

On purchase orders

Every purchase order names a supplier, and the supplier’s page lists the orders placed with them. When importing purchase orders from a CSV file, each row names its supplier by name. The name has to match a supplier that already exists — a name that does not is refused rather than creating a new supplier from a typo.

Removing a supplier

A supplier can be deleted only while nothing has been ordered from them. Once a purchase order exists, the supplier is kept: the orders naming it have to keep meaning something.

Purchase Orders — buying stock from a supplier
Inventory — where received stock lands

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