# Minimum order value, MOQ and batch

Source: https://docs.tightly.io/help/supply/minimum-order-value-moq-and-batch
Reviewed: 2026-09-07

## What it is

A supplier's brackets are the conditions an order has to meet before the supplier will take it. The minimum order value is money: the least an order to that supplier can be worth, in the supplier's own currency, and it belongs to the supplier. The minimum order quantity, MOQ, is units: the fewest of one variant the supplier will sell at once, and it belongs to the variant at that supplier. The batch is the multiple a line ships in, also per variant at that supplier. Tightly checks them when it turns staged lines into purchase orders, so a drafted order is one the supplier can accept.

## How Tightly decides it

The minimum order value is on the supplier's record, edited in the supplier's Edit drawer, on its Terms tab, or from an order's Terms; where nobody has set one it is None on record, never a zero, and a minimum left empty or at zero saves as no minimum. MOQ and batch are set per supplier in Variant suppliers, or in bulk from the supplier's Catalog, and do not inherit from anywhere: empty means none, and a quantity of zero is treated as no minimum. On the Bench, a variant in a supplier's size pack is judged by the pack rather than by its MOQ and batch, and Size pack explains how.

The Bench evaluates every prospective order, one per supplier and warehouse. Each order's Standing reads Can be placed, Cannot be placed, Cannot be valued where a line has no unit cost, or Size pack incomplete; the shortfall against the supplier's minimum stands in its own Short by column, in the supplier's currency, and the count of failing lines in Lines that do not fit. On the Purchase orders book, an order under its supplier's minimum carries Not met beneath its value, and one whose supplier has no minimum says so on hover. When you convert, the server checks the same brackets, plus a unit cost on every line, and refuses the whole conversion if any prospective order fails, naming every order that is short and by how much.

## The words on the face

| Word | Where | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Not met | Purchase orders, under Value | The order's value is below the supplier's minimum |
| Can be placed | The Bench, Standing | Every bracket is met |
| Cannot be placed | The Bench, Standing | A bracket fails; the Short by and Lines that do not fit columns say which |
| Cannot be valued | The Bench, Standing | A line has no unit cost, so the order cannot be set against the minimum |
| Fits · Under MOQ · Off batch · Unpriced | The Bench, Fit | One line against its own brackets |
| Size pack incomplete | The Bench | The pack's ratio is not whole; the pack governs, not MOQ |
| a dash | Variant suppliers and the Catalog, MOQ and Batch | No bracket is set |
| Supplier minimum order value · Minimum order quantity · Batch size · Unit cost on file | the refusal's rows | Which constraint each refused line or order failed |

## What you can do about it

On the Bench, open Review order for a blocked order: Apply recommendations rounds each line to fit, Fill to minimum lifts the order to the supplier's minimum, Apply size pack ratios completes the packs, Fix this order does the lines and then the minimum, and Leave on the bench keeps that order's lines on the bench while the rest convert. Change the supplier on selected lines to one whose brackets they meet. Edit a supplier's minimum on its record, or from an order's Terms, where the popover says the change applies to every order with that supplier. Edit MOQ and batch in Variant suppliers or the supplier's Catalog.

A conversion that fails the check is refused before any order is created, with one row per unmet constraint, in one sentence that names each reason:

> {n} purchase order(s) cannot be placed: {reasons}.

## Glossary line

A minimum order is the least a supplier will take, in units or money; a batch is the multiple a line ships in.