Partial receiving
Receive less than the ordered quantity to move the PO into partial status; receive again later to complete it.
Partial receiving
Suppliers often ship in multiple shipments. PO Flow handles this with the partial status — any PO that has received some but not all of its line item quantities is partial.
Recording a partial receipt
- Open the PO and click Receive Stock.
- Enter the quantity actually received on each line. Leave 0 (or untouched) for lines that arrived in this shipment with no units.
- Click Confirm Receipt.
The PO moves to partial if any line is still outstanding. The next time more stock arrives, click Receive Stock again — PO Flow shows the remaining quantity per line so you only enter what came in this time.
Completing a partial PO
The PO moves to received automatically once all line item quantities have been received in full across one or more receipts.
If a shipment will never come
If you do not expect the rest of the order, use Close PO from the PO header to manually close the PO. See Closing and cancelling a PO for the difference between close and cancel.
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