# Summary

View your Suppliers on this screen, along with some essential information about them.

To manage a Supplier, click the edit icon.

<p class="callout danger">Deletion may have serious irreversible impact on your reporting, stock and allocation; Iconography always recommends disabling in the first instance.</p>

### Setup

#### Supplier Details

<table border="1" id="bkmrk-field-purpose-suppli" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><colgroup><col style="width: 50%;"></col><col style="width: 50%;"></col></colgroup><thead><tr><td>Field</td><td>Purpose</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Supplier Name</td><td>*The Name of the Supplier (mandatory)*</td></tr><tr><td>Telephone Number</td><td>  
</td></tr><tr><td>Contact Email</td><td>*This is also the email address to which Purchase Orders will be emailed*</td></tr><tr><td>Website</td><td>  
</td></tr><tr><td>Supplier Notes</td><td>*These will be copied onto Purchase Orders when they are created*

*If you amend these over time, the historical version will be preserved against on older Purchase Orders*

</td></tr><tr><td>Live (show in lists)</td><td>*Untick to archive*

*Archived Suppliers will not display in the CMS*

</td></tr></tbody></table>

#### Purchase Orders

<table border="1" id="bkmrk-field-purpose-allow-" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><colgroup><col style="width: 50.0477%;"></col><col style="width: 50.0477%;"></col></colgroup><thead><tr><td>Field</td><td>Purpose</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Allow Purchase Orders?</td><td>*Toggle yes/no*

*If set to 'no', it will not be possible to create Purchase Orders for this Supplier*

</td></tr><tr><td>Collate Purchase Orders?</td><td>*If set to 'es', this will collates multiple items into a single Purchase Order; this will happen if you create a new Purchase Order Line and an existing Open Purchase Order exists for that Supplier*

*This will apply when creating [Purchase Order](https://bookstack.iconography.co.uk/books/purchase-orders/page/purchase-orders-list "Purchase Orders (List)") lines from the Sales Order Detail screen, or from [Required Orders](https://bookstack.iconography.co.uk/books/required-orders "Required Orders")*

</td></tr><tr><td>Drop Shipping Available?</td><td>*Toggle to enable [Drop Shipping](https://bookstack.iconography.co.uk/books/purchase-orders/page/dropship-purchase-orders-direct-home-delivery "Dropship Purchase Orders (Direct Home Delivery)")*</td></tr><tr><td>Ongoing Discount</td><td>*Enter a percentage discount that will be applied to all Purchase Order Lines*

</td></tr><tr><td>Minimum Purchase Order Value</td><td>*Enter a minimum Purchase Order Value*</td></tr><tr><td>Minimum Carriage Charge</td><td>*Enter a minimum carriage charge*</td></tr><tr><td>Additional Carriage Charge</td><td>*Enter an additional carriage charge and the threshold*</td></tr><tr><td>Estimated days until acknowledgment</td><td>*This field powers the 'overdue acknowledgment' status*</td></tr><tr><td>Default lead time</td><td>*Enter a default Lead Time; this will be overridden by Variants with specific Lead Times set against them*</td></tr></tbody></table>

#### Addresses

These addresses are stored for information purposes only, and have no additional function.

<table border="1" id="bkmrk-field-purpose-defaul" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><colgroup><col style="width: 50%;"></col><col style="width: 50%;"></col></colgroup><thead><tr><td>Field</td><td>Purpose</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Default Address</td><td>*The default address of the Supplier*</td></tr><tr><td>Order Address</td><td>*The address for submitted Purchase Orders*</td></tr><tr><td>Returns Address</td><td>*The address to be used when returning items*</td></tr></tbody></table>