The vendors you actually buy from. One directory. One tap to call.
A supplier in Bit & Grain is the persistent record of every vendor you order from, the lumber yard, the plumbing supply, the paint store, the rental shop. Contact info, payment terms, and a full PO history per supplier. The directory you've been keeping in your head, but searchable.
What lives on a supplier
Each supplier carries the contact basics, business name, phone, email, address, the rep you actually deal with. Plus the operational stuff: payment terms (net 15? COD?), account number, sales tax exemption certificate, and any notes worth keeping ("closes at 4 on Saturdays").
Click into a supplier and you see every PO you've ever issued to them, sortable by date, status, or job. The order history is the receipts when a delivery doesn't show up or a price seems off.
- Contact info: business name, phone, email, address, rep contact.
- Payment terms (net 15 / net 30 / COD), account number.
- PO history per supplier, every order, every status.
- Notes field for the operational details you'd otherwise forget.
- One-tap dial / email from mobile.
How suppliers tie into the rest
When you issue a PO, you pick the supplier from the directory, the contact info auto-fills, the payment terms come along, the PO number sequences off the supplier's history. The PO links back to the supplier (and to the job), so every record points at every other.
The PO history per supplier becomes a lightweight spend report, total dollars per supplier per quarter, useful when you're negotiating a discount or deciding whether to consolidate suppliers.
- PO creation auto-fills supplier contact + payment terms.
- Supplier history shows every PO, every job, every dollar.
- Total spend per supplier per period, useful for negotiation.
- Cross-link from PO to supplier, supplier to PO, both ways.
Ready to try Suppliers?
A supplier in Bit & Grain is the persistent record of every vendor you order from, the lumber yard, the plumbing supply, the paint store, the rental shop. Contact info, payment terms, and a full PO history per supplier. The directory you've been keeping in your head, but searchable.