Maintain Vendors

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Use the Maintain Vendors window to enter, change, and store information about the companies and people from whom you purchase goods and services. You can use this window to add a vendor, change existing vendor information, or delete a vendor if no transactions have been entered for the vendor.

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Closed Setting up a new vendor

First, you should set up your default or common information in Maintain Vendor Defaults. This automates part of the process of setting up individual vendors. Then, you can set up individual vendors, including beginning balances.

Set up vendor default information

Set up a vendor

Enter vendor beginning balances

Closed Reviewing a vendor's status

The History tab of the Maintain Vendors window contains useful information about the vendor, including the last invoice or payment dates and amounts.

Review a vendor's status

Closed What are customizable fields and how can I use them?

Customizable fields let you track information that Sage 50 normally doesn't track. You set up the fields and enter the data based on specific information that your business requires.

Overview and examples

How to set up and use custom fields

Closed Help with specific fields or folders

If you need help with a specific field or a folder on the Maintain Vendors window, click on the area below. (Header fields are those fields above the folders on the window—ID, Name, and Inactive.)

Header Fields

General tab

Addresses tab

History tab

Purchase Info tab

Insurance tab

ClosedAdd an Attachment

You can attach files, such as Word or Excel documents, to a vendor record.

Published: March 21, 2017
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