Adding a Vendor

Vendors are the mirror image of customers — the same idea, the other side of the ledger. Set one up once under Maintain, and it's available on every purchase order and bill from then on, with a running payables balance that builds automatically as you transact against it.

Where this feeds into

A vendor record you create here is what the purchase order and receiving-goods tutorials build on next — the whole procurement cycle (order, receive, bill, pay) threads through whichever vendor you select first. If you're following the procurement tutorials in order, this is the step that unlocks them.

Payment details entered here — bank information, default terms — are what populate a bill's payment screen later, so it's worth filling in before your first purchase order rather than mid-transaction.

Tips

• A vendor's default VAT rate (where applicable) can be set here, so it doesn't need re-entering on every bill.
• As with customers, only the name is required to save — everything else can be filled in progressively as you learn it.
• If a supplier is also a customer (common with cooperative or barter arrangements), Redovix treats vendor and customer as separate records; there's no automatic netting between the two.