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Create purchase orders faster: from orders, products, POS, and for multiple locations

Start a draft PO straight from a Shopify order, your Products list, a product page, or Shopify POS - and order stock for several locations on one purchase order.

You can start a purchase order from wherever you already are - a Shopify order, your Products list, a product page, or the POS till - and Stockroom does the supplier-matching for you. You can also order stock for several locations on a single PO.

Every path below creates drafts. Nothing is ordered until you review and mark it as ordered.

From a Shopify order

On any order's page in Shopify admin, open the More actions menu and choose Create PO. Stockroom creates one draft purchase order per supplier from the order's items, matched by each product's vendor. Items it cannot match to a supplier are listed as skipped, so nothing is silently dropped. Review, price, and send the drafts from Stockroom.

From your Products list

In Stockroom, go to Products, tick the products you want to reorder, and click Create purchase order. Stockroom creates one draft per supplier with costs pre-filled. Products with no vendor set in Shopify are skipped and named, so you can fix them and try again.

From a product page

On a product's page in Stockroom, click Create purchase order to open Shopify's product picker already scoped to that product's vendor, with the product preselected. Handy for reordering a single item, or a few from the same brand.

On Shopify POS

Add the Create PO tile to your POS smart grid. Scan or search items and they land on a draft purchase order for their supplier at that location. Staff can review quantities and mark the PO as ordered right from the till - costs and supplier emails stay in Stockroom admin. See Use Stockroom on Shopify POS for the full flow.

Order for several locations on one PO

A purchase order can send stock to more than one location. In the editor, each destination has its own section with its own product table. Pick the first Destination, add its products, then click Add another destination to add a section for the next location.

  • Each line belongs to the destination section it sits in.

  • When you receive, each line shows a For {location} badge so the right items go to the right place.

  • The PDF groups lines under a Deliver to heading per location.

Single-location stores never see a destination picker - your one location is used automatically.

Tip: adding a product that is already on a destination bumps its quantity instead of creating a duplicate line.

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