Vendors

Vendors are the people and businesses from which you purchase goods and services. If you are a retail company, your vendors may be the suppliers of the goods you resell to customers; if you are a construction company, your vendors may be the contractors you hire to perform skilled trades on a construction site (such as an electrician, plumber, landscaper).

Why do I need to create vendor records?

You can purchase goods and services without adding vendors to Sage Simply Accounting; however, we highly recommend that you add them :

• If you wish to purchase something and pay for it later or enter a purchase order or quote, you must have a vendor on file first.
• Creating vendor records in Sage Simply Accounting saves time, as you don't have to enter contact information every time you make a purchase.
• Vendor records allow you to track overdue bills. You can also print reports on your purchases to help analyse them. For example, Sage Simply Accounting can remind you to pay bills and payroll remittances on time. You can also print reports that help you to analyse your purchase or to determine the amount to remit to a payroll authority.
• Associations between vendors and items can be viewed in the Inventory & Vendors window. You can define preferred vendors as well as modify or remove existing associations. (Enterprise)
• Setting up your vendor as a contractor in a vendor record allows you to track their time using time slips. You can also print a number of time and billing reports for contractors. (Enterprise)

Note:  Payroll authorities and other organizations to whom you remit taxes or payments are entered in the program as vendors. When you match one or more payroll liability accounts to a payroll authority, Sage Simply Accounting automatically keeps track of the total amount owed to the payroll authority.

One-time vendors

One-time vendors are either single-purchase vendors, or vendors with whom you rarely do business. A purchase using this type of vendor is made without entering a vendor name or record. You cannot record purchase orders or quotes for one-time vendors.

My Vendors are called Suppliers

Not all companies refer to their vendors as Vendors. Sage Simply Accounting allows you to create a custom name for the people or organizations with whom you do business: suppliers, providers, sellers. (Premium)

Quickly add a new vendor

Completing a full vendor record can take time, and it is best to set aside this activity when you have time in your schedule. However, Sage Simply Accounting allows you to add a new vendor quickly ("on the fly") to the program during a purchase, without going through the formal process of creating a new vendor record. You can always go back later into the vendor record to enter more information.

Finished doing business with a vendor

If you no longer require the services of a particular supplier, or if the supplier is no longer distributing items you require, you can set the record to Inactive.

If you no longer require any details for this vendor, you can remove a vendor's record when:

• There is a zero balance on the vendor's account.
• The vendor's transactions in Sage Simply Accounting have been cleared.
• There are no outstanding purchase orders or quotes for this vendor.

What do you want to do?

Add a vendor

Add a vendor "on the fly"

Add a vendor using the Setup Guide

View the Inventory & Vendors window (Enterprise)

Make a vendor record inactive

Delete a vendor

Display a list of vendors

Enter a purchase invoice

Pay a vendor bill

Add or change early payment terms received from a vendor

Change the name Vendors to an industry-specific term (Premium)