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Suppliers

How to manage suppliers, purchase invoices, and amounts due.

Last updated: 2026-11-03

Suppliers are contacts from whom you receive products or services.
Having them well loaded helps you organize receiving, payments, and future purchases.

Create and edit suppliers

  1. In the Contacts module, filter by Supplier type.
  2. Click "New contact" and select Supplier type.
  3. Complete:
    • Legal name.
    • Tax ID (CUIT) / fiscal identification.
    • Contact data (phone, email).
    • Address and city.
  4. Save.

To edit, simply open the supplier from the list and adjust necessary fields.

Supplier detail

Opening a supplier (Contacts → Suppliers → View) shows:

  • Contact details.
  • Total purchased, amount due (purchase-invoice balance), and invoices with a balance.
  • A purchase invoices table with Total, Paid, and Balance (date filter).
  • A money movements table: each payment/expense linked to those invoices (date, invoice, amount), with a date filter.

Customer credit score does not apply to suppliers: this view shows what your business owes the supplier.

Pay account

Pay account mirrors customer Pay debt: it reduces purchase-invoice balances and records an expense in a cash box.

  1. Open the supplier with an amount due.
  2. Click Pay account.
  3. Enter the amount (or Full amount due).
  4. Choose the register the money leaves. If you have more than one register, you can use Mixed payment and enter an amount per register.

Payment is applied to the oldest purchase invoices first. If the amount does not cover an invoice in full, that invoice stays with a partial balance. Overpayment is not credited as a supplier advance.

You can also pay when creating the invoice during receiving; Pay account settles what remained pending later.

Relationship with inventory and receiving

When you record a merchandise receiving:

  • You can link it to a specific supplier.
  • This leaves a clear history of which products you receive from each supplier.
  • You can optionally record the cash-box expense when creating the purchase invoice (full or partial).