Linking tells Brahmin Solutions who supplies an item, what they charge and how long they take. Once linked, that price fills in automatically every time you put the item on a purchase order for that vendor.
Link a product
In the top menu, click Inventory.
Click the item you want to link.
Click the Pricing & Vendors tab.
Click + Add vendor.
Start typing the supplier's name in Vendor and select them.
Enter the Price they charge.
Enter the Lead time in days.
Choose the UOM — the unit they sell in.
Click Add vendor.
The two checkboxes
At the bottom of the panel are two options with no labels next to them, only text:
Option | What it does |
Primary option | Makes this the default supplier for the item. Reorder suggestions use this vendor. |
Drop shipping | Lets this vendor ship the item straight to your customer, bypassing your warehouse. |
Read the text carefully before ticking. They sit next to each other and do very different things.
Choose the unit they actually sell in
Choose the UOM they actually sell in. If your supplier sells inner tubes by the box of 25, set the UOM to Box — not Each. Getting this wrong means an order for "100" arrives as 100 boxes instead of 100 tubes.
Make sure the item has that unit set up first, with how many are in one. See Set up units of measure.
More than one vendor can supply the same item. Add each one separately with their own price and lead time. Mark whichever you buy from most often as the primary.
How to know it worked
The vendor appears in the grid on the Pricing & Vendors tab with their price, lead time and UOM. Create a draft purchase order for that vendor and the item should now suggest the price you entered.