Description of Supplier Fields

General Information

Field	Description
Name	The name of the supplier, this is displayed throughout Shopfront.
Status	A supplier can be set to Active or Inactive. Setting a supplier to Inactive will prevent any new orders or returns from being created.
Business Number	This is the business number of the supplier, this is a useful reference and allows us to find the supplier easily through integrations.
Account Number	Your account number for this supplier, this is for your reference only.
Master Database Reference	If you have access to our Master Database you can link your supplier to our supplier, this allows you to receive electronic invoices and send orders directly to suppliers if they support it.

Contact

These fields are self-explanatory and are all optional, we do not require that you format the data in any particular way (e.g. you can present phone numbers in any way you like).

Address

These fields are self-explanatory and are all optional.

Authentication

The authentication fields are shown for each outlet and are used to receive electronic invoices and send electronic orders to the suppliers that support those functions.

Field	Description
Account Number	Your account number for the supplier.
Username	Your username to access your account.
Password	Your password to access your account.
Additional Authentication	Any additional information required to connect to your account.

Ordering

Field	Description
Order Notes	Notes that can be referenced when ordering stock, this is available to be seen when ordering stock.
Email Order Automatically	Whether Shopfront should automatically email the order to the supplier when an order is sent.
Email Format	The format the email will be supplied in.
Minimum Order Value	Allows you to place a minimum order value. If the minimum value of the order is not met it will not allow you to send the order.
Maximum Order Value	Allows you to place a maximum order value. If the maximum value of the order is not surpassed it will not allow you to send the order.

Receiving Orders

Field	Description
Payment Fee Percentage	An additional percentage added on top of invoices to cover payment fees and miscellaneous charges not provided on an invoice.
Distribute Fees	This determines how Shopfront distributes fees and discounts for each product. Proportionally: Allocates fees or discounts based on the product's cost value. In other words, the distribution is proportional to the cost of each product. Evenly: Distributes the fees based on the amount of cases or items (if less than a case) for each product.
Distribute Freight Across	This determines the method used to distribute the freight across products on an invoice. Items: Freight distribution is based on the total number of items received for each product Cases: Freight distribution is determined by the number of cases. For instance, a product with a case quantity of 24 and a product with a case quantity of 1 will receive an equal share of freight allocation per product, items (if less than a case) will be proportionally calculated relative to the product's case quantity. Mixed: Freight distribution is based on the number of cases, with items (if less than a case) being calculated based on the percentage of a case fulfilled.
Default Invoice Tax	The default settings for tax for an invoice, this can be changed per invoice when receiving invoices.
Freight Tax	Allows the option to add or remove a tax from the freight when receiving an order.
Fees Tax	Allows the option to add or remove a tax from invoice fees when receiving an order.
Freight included by default on invoices	With this toggle turned on, any freight added to an order will be included in the order total. If the toggle is turned off the freight will not be reflected in the order total.
Fixed freight cost per case	If the cost of freight is fixed per case you can specify the value here, if you're receiving a partial case then freight will be applied proportionally. We would suggest leaving this blank if the cost of freight is known on the invoice.

Miscellaneous

Field	Description
Comments	Any additional comments for the supplier, this is not shown anywhere.