Purchasing Documents

Good afternoon,

I wanted to reach out and see if I can get a feel for how you are all compiling your purchase orders...specifically larger orders that are set up as a contract type order with supply and service (3rd party fabrication)?  In our previous system(s) (Sage 50 & QB) I would simply create blank value lines for additional information such as attachments, included items, schedule, etc while the main (or first) line would be a brief summary of the activity.  The last lines of the PO would be for milestone/progress payments and would include the values to receive against...this was done this way in the old systems so that accounting could receive the payments as per the milestones.  Line text, I find to be quite unprofessional looking; perhaps its just not set up properly on our PO form...the text starts outside the boundary/body of the PO and if I try and indent so it aligns better it either doesn't move or it duplicates lines.

I know there is a progress payment option under project management, is there a way at the purchase order level to include these?

As always, thanks in advance!

  • Thought I would add on to my previous in the hopes that someone has experienced this.

    Our 'Provider' suggested that we create a 'Phantom' code that could then just be used for text, having no value, no stock, no price, etc.  I am assuming though that I would need to create a new category for this to reside in since all other categories would require the additional data.

    I can see there being a bit of benefit to having this, however, I think I would still be restricted to the 'description length' requirement.  Meaning, if the length was restricted to 60 characters, I could potentially have a substantial number of extra lines if the text I was trying to add equaled 2,000 characters.

    Is there a better solution?  Wide open to suggestions at this point!