Sales Orders and Purchase Orders

Record what a customer has agreed to buy and what you have ordered from a vendor — deliver and invoice a sales order line by line, receive a purchase order as goods arrive, and raise the vendor’s bill from it.

A sales order sits between an estimate and an invoice: the customer has said yes, and nothing is owed yet. A purchase order is the same thing pointing the other way — what you have asked a vendor for, before their bill arrives. They live under Accounting → Get paid → Sales Orders and Accounting → Money → Purchasing, on the website and in both phone apps.

Sales orders

  • Create one from scratch, or from an accepted estimate. A line with an item and no price is priced by your price rules; a line nothing can price is refused rather than filled in at $0.00.
  • Confirm it to open it. A draft can still be edited or deleted; an open order has been promised.
  • Record a delivery as work is done or goods leave — part of a line, some lines, or everything outstanding. Stocked items leave inventory at their cost.
  • Invoice from it as many times as it takes. Each is an ordinary invoice, numbered and posted, and the order keeps count of what is left to invoice.
  • Close an order once there is nothing left to do, or cancel one nobody has delivered or invoiced against.

Purchase orders

  • Draft one to a vendor. A line with no cost takes the item’s cost from the price book, or is refused.
  • Submit it. Where your books ask for approval, it waits for somebody who may approve it — and within their approval limit — before it opens.
  • Receive against it as goods arrive, by line or everything outstanding. Stocked items go into inventory at the order’s cost.
  • Raise the vendor’s bill from it. That bill goes through the same approval policy as any other bill.
Progress showsIt means
Not yetNothing delivered, received, invoiced or billed.
PartSome of it has been.
AllEverything on the order has been.

What you may do to an order at any moment — edit it, confirm it, deliver, invoice, receive, bill, close, reopen or cancel — is decided by the server and drawn the same way on every device, so no screen offers a button the books would refuse.

Ask your assistant

A connected assistant can list and open your orders, draft a sales order or a purchase order, and record goods received. Every one of those drafts waits in Approvals for a person. It cannot confirm, approve, invoice, bill or pay anything.

Frequently asked questions

Is a sales order an invoice?

No. Nobody owes anything on an order until you invoice it, and it is not in accounts receivable or the aging report until then.

Can I invoice part of an order?

Yes — invoice what has been delivered so far, then the rest later. The order tracks what is left, line by line.

Why was a line refused?

Because nothing could price it: the item has no list price and no price rule applies to it. Type the price for that line. Seayora never fills a missing price with $0.00.

Does receiving a purchase order pay the vendor?

No. Receiving records what arrived. The vendor’s bill is a separate step, and paying it is another.

Related guides

Related features and guides

  • Price Rules and Price Levels — Documentation. Discounts, markups, fixed prices and price levels — for everybody, a group of customers or one customer, on every item, a type, a trade or one item — and exactly which one wins.
  • Invoices, Estimates & Statements — Documentation. How to create, brand, and send invoices, estimates, and statements — with a price book, good / better / best options and acceptance on the spot — turn estimates into invoices, and get paid online.
  • Accounting Suite Overview — Documentation. A tour of Seayora’s accounting and bookkeeping tools — invoicing, bills, ledger, bank feeds, reports, automations, and the AI analyst.
  • Contracts, Change Orders & Purchase Orders — Feature. Signed contracts, documented change orders, and purchase orders — so scope creep becomes a billable, agreed change instead of an argument at invoice time.
  • Job Costing — Feature. Track labor, materials, and vendor costs against each work order or capital project, so you know real margin per job instead of guessing.
  • Invoicing, Estimates & Statements — Feature. Create invoices and estimates, send customer statements, and collect payment through the same rails as rent — with everything posting to the ledger automatically.

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