{"id":3150,"date":"2015-04-17T15:29:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T19:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inflowinventory.com\/support\/article\/3150\/can-i-buy-or-sell-an-item-directly-from-an-existing-record\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T17:58:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T21:58:24","slug":"can-i-buy-or-sell-an-item-directly-from-an-existing-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/article\/67168970\/can-i-buy-or-sell-an-item-directly-from-an-existing-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I buy or sell an item directly from an existing record with inFlow On-Premise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The toolbar at the top of a product record has two buttons, <em>Buy<\/em> and <em>Sell<\/em>. Depending on which button you click, it will create a purchase order or sales order and fill in the order with the chosen item. inFlow On-Premise cannot pre-fill the customer info for you in a sales order created this way, but in a purchase order, it will pre-fill with the last vendor that you purchased the item from.<\/p>\n\n<p><div class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18241 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/04\/67168970_1.png\" alt=\"Product toolbar (buy\/sell buttons)\" width=\"1016\" height=\"734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/04\/67168970_1.png 1016w, https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/04\/67168970_1-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/04\/67168970_1-768x555.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1016px) 100vw, 1016px\" \/><\/div><\/p>\n\n<p>The quantity in the purchase order will also be pre-filled. inFlow will use the <em>Reorder Quantity <\/em>(in the\u00a0<em>Extra Info<\/em> tab) for that item. If your item doesn&#8217;t have a <em>Reorder Quantity<\/em> set up, then the quantity listed on the purchase order will be the difference between your reorder point and your current stock levels.<\/p>\n\n<p>Similarly, you can go to a specific customer record, click the <em>Sell<\/em>\u00a0button and a new sales order with that customer information will open in another tab. You can then start selecting the items you wish to sell to the customer.<\/p>\n\n<p><div class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18231 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/04\/67168970_2.png\" alt=\"Customer toolbar (sell button)\" width=\"1016\" height=\"734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/04\/67168970_2.png 1016w, https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/04\/67168970_2-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/04\/67168970_2-768x555.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1016px) 100vw, 1016px\" \/><\/div><\/p>\n\n\n<p>The vendor record has a similar function with the <em>Buy &gt; Create New Order<\/em>\u00a0button, but there&#8217;s also an extra selection. You can click <em>Suggest Reordering\u00a0<\/em>and inFlow will create a purchase order with this vendor information pre-filled, along with all the items that are low on stock and may need to be reordered specifically from this vendor.<br \/>\n<div class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18221 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/04\/67168970_3.png\" alt=\"Vendor toolbar (buy button)\" width=\"1016\" height=\"734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/04\/67168970_3.png 1016w, https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/04\/67168970_3-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/04\/67168970_3-768x555.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1016px) 100vw, 1016px\" \/><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The toolbar at the top of a product record has two buttons, Buy and Sell. Depending on which button you click, it will create a purchase order or sales order and fill in the order with the chosen item. inFlow On-Premise cannot pre-fill the customer info for you in a sales order created this way, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":""},"categories":[20,30,29],"tags":[46,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3150"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25299,"href":"https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions\/25299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onpremise.inflowinventory.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}