Purchase orders are those detailed docs 📝 �that are generated when a customer places an order through your store (Yay!). POs convey how much of what type of product you need to get from your suppliers. Your Volusion store can auto-generate two types of purchase orders, depending on the types of product they�re for:

1. Purchase orders to replenish stock to pre-existing products in your store�s database

2. Purchase orders for products configured with a vendor and set to automatically drop-ship

When reviewing your store�s purchase orders, you can only mark the first type � generated within your Admin Area to replenish and receive stock for an existing product � as �received.� �Also keep in mind that for any stock you are replenishing through a Purchase Order, the stock status must be set to a number (even if that number is zero) and not set to Null.

Purchase orders generated by a product configured to automatically drop-ship from a vendor cannot be marked as �received,� because they�re outgoing to a vendor who will fulfill the order for the customer.�

Make sense? If not, let us know and we�ll be glad to help.

Summary

When customers order from your online store, one of two types of purchase orders are generated. If it�s for a product within your store�s database, there�s one type of purchase order for that, which you can review and mark as received.�

If it�s for a product that�s set to drop-ship from a vendor, well, there�s a separate purchase order for that. Since it�s outgoing to your vendor, only they can mark it as received (not you). Get it? Got it. Good! 😀