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How to edit and delete a supplier purchase order

Learn how to quickly edit purchase order details, manage products, change statuses, and delete the document if necessary

Written by Christina
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How to Edit a Purchase Order

To be able to modify data in a purchase order, make sure that the “Can edit purchase orders” permission is enabled for your user role.

To edit a document, open the relevant purchase order, make the necessary changes, and click “Save”.

You can change the purchase order status at any time—either directly within the document itself or right in the general table without opening it. This allows you to quickly track the status of purchase orders and update them promptly as needed.

Next, we’ll look at what changes you can make on each tab of a purchase order.

General

On the General tab, you can change:

  • Supplier.

  • Invoice number and date.

  • Delivery date and warehouse.

Important: Changing any data (supplier, invoice, date, or warehouse) affects only the order itself and future postings. Documents that have already been created will remain unchanged. Specifically, if you change the warehouse, it will be set as the default only for new postings.

Products

On the Products tab, you can manage the list of products by changing their quantity and cost. A price change will only affect future postings; those already created will remain unchanged.

Products that have already been posted in part or in full cannot be deleted or reduced to a quantity lower than what has been posted.

When the posted quantity of a product equals the ordered quantity, the row remains in the document but is considered fully posted.

Postings and Payments

On the Postings and Payments tab, you can create a posting or add payments to settle the posting.

How to delete a purchase order

To be able to delete a purchase order, you must have the “Can delete purchase orders” permission enabled.

To delete a purchase order, open the document and click Actions > Delete in the upper right corner. Deleting multiple documents at once is available via batch actions in the purchase order table.

After deleting a purchase order, the related posting documents and payments remain unchanged and are not deleted.

It is currently not possible to manually restore a deleted purchase order document.

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