The question this page answers
Which purchase orders exist, where is each in its life, which need a person, and which orders Tightly has drafted are waiting for your approval?
What you see
Purchase orders is the book of everything you have ordered or are about to order from suppliers. It sits in the Buy book on the Supply rail, beside the Bench.
The head carries the title and the basis line (cost, USD, order), with no as-of. On a book that reads, the Orders view prints no sentence: the counts sit in a figure row instead. Value is the sum of the Value column, No expected date is the money on orders nobody has dated, Past their date counts late orders, and Supplier updates counts orders the supplier has written in about. A figure appears only while the table holds every order it counts, and No expected date, Past their date and Supplier updates are left out at zero.
The head's controls are two views, Orders and Planned procurement (with its count), and two buttons: Explore in Ask, and Settings, which opens the Suggested orders drawer and, off Tightly Lite, the Stock sync drawer.
In the Orders view a Landing chart shows the Value column by the week each order is expected, over eight weeks. It can be added to Home.
Order. Supplier, with the word archived under an archived supplier and Not selected where there is none. Warehouse, Created, and Delivery: a drafted order reads Agreed on confirmation, an order past its date reads the date with late beside it, and an undated one reads No date. Status is one of the words in Order status words, with a second word when the supplier has written in: date moved, wants to cancel, shipped or quantity changed. Ordered appears where orders carry purchase units, then Stock units and Value. Under a Value the words Not met mark an order below the supplier's minimum; the minimum is in the supplier's currency, so no shortfall figure is printed.
Commitment appears on Tightly Pro when at least half the orders drawn are stamped to a commitment, and reads Not stamped on the rest. Split appears only while the Split filter is set, reads Recorded, Recommended, Nowhere to go or Not read, and opens the order at its Where it goes; a sentence under the tools says what the three options do not cover.
Above the table sit a search on Order ID, a Filters popover (Supplier, Warehouse, Created, Delivery, Value, Split, Minimum), three pills (Late only, With supplier updates, Include completed) and status chips counted from the book. Completed orders stay out of the table until Include completed or a status chip asks for them, and the foot counts the ones hidden. In the retailer chair Supplier reads Vendor and Warehouse reads Store.
Planned procurement lists the orders Tightly has drafted. Its head reads
{n} suggested orders wait for your approval, {money} at cost.
with the money only when every suggestion is on the page and at least one carries a price; how many are unpriced is a figure beneath.
What to do
Press a row to open its peek: the status, the order's figures, the one next move on its track, and what the supplier has said. Previous and Next, or the arrow keys, walk the rows under it; Open goes to the whole order.
Every write here needs a read and write seat; a read-only seat reads the book.
In Planned procurement each row carries Approve and Ignore, and one press acts at once. Approve makes the order a draft and says so in place with an Open door; Ignore removes it. Select several rows and each act asks first:
Approve these {n} suggested orders? Each lands on the book as a draft.
Ignore these {n} suggested orders? They are removed, and Tightly may suggest the same lines again.
A row's menu offers Open and Duplicate, Cancel on an order not yet delivered, completed or cancelled, and Delete on a drafted order. Duplicate saves a copy as a draft and names it in place. Cancel and Delete ask in a popover:
Cancel {order}? Reactivating later puts it back to Drafted.
Delete {order}? It and its line items are removed for good.
The Suggested orders drawer switches Tightly's drafting on or off, tops quantities up to each supplier's minimum order quantity, rounds them to the batch size, fills the container, and picks the variants Tightly may draft for. Its line before Save reads:
Generated orders wait for your approval and land as drafts.
Stock sync chooses whether a delivery recorded here changes stock only in Tightly or also in your source of truth. To create orders, work the Bench. Nothing on this page sends anything to a supplier.
When it is empty or failed
The book could not be read.
The read failed; Try again reads it again. An empty book shows No purchase orders with the door Open the bench. Filters that match nothing read:
No orders match these filters.
with Clear the filters. In Planned procurement with drafting on and nothing waiting the head reads:
No suggested orders are waiting.
With drafting off and nothing waiting it reads:
Suggested orders are off.
and offers Turn on suggested orders. Before your first import has landed, the page is one sentence and a door to Home.