Finance · Vendors
Route /finance/vendor-costs Flag vendorCostsEnabled

Vendor Costs

Cost against vendors and POs — spend lens, not a second vendor master and not employee expenses.

Scroll to Flowcharts. Scenario: Inspect spend for a vendor.

Supplier spend

What we paid vendors, on documents we already keep

Vendor costs charts spend against vendor masters, POs, and supplier invoices. It is not a new supplier list.

Finance → Vendor costs Route /finance/vendor-costs Org flag vendorCostsEnabled Finance Manager · Admin

The job of this console

Filter a vendor, see spend, open the PO or vendor invoice that is wrong.

Seat at the table

Finance managers and admins. Procurement may use POs more than this lens.

The working rhythm

Filter, drill document, fix, refresh.

Moments that bring you here

Month-end AP. A vendor duplicate. After a PO import. Accrual questions.

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Lens on vendor documents
Admin vendors is the master. Employee expenses are a different register.

Flowcharts

1 — Spend then document

See vendor cost, open the PO or vendor invoice.

flowchart TD
  A[Open Vendor costs] --> B[Filter vendor]
  B --> C[See spend]
  C --> D[PO or vendor invoice]
  D --> E[Fix document]
            
  1. 1
    OpenFinance → Vendor costs.
  2. 2
    VendorMaster remains Admin vendors.
  3. 3
    DocumentPO or vendor invoice.
  4. 4
    FixThose registers.

Overview

Vendor costs is a spend lens. Vendor register is the master. Vendor invoices are supplier bills. Employee expenses are different.

How to use

1. Master on vendors
Do not rename a vendor only here.
2. PO still contract
When buying via PO.
3. Not paycheck
People costs are payroll.