Purchase orders

Committed cost is a fact,
not a guess.

Raise POs straight off the BOQ, cost centre by cost centre. Ordered lines are locked and tracked against the estimate — so you always know what is spoken for.

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Purchase orders in costed.app: 121 orders for one job, tracked by cost centre and supplier with totals and dates

Orders come from the bill

No separate ordering spreadsheet. Select the lines, pick the supplier, raise the order — quantities and prices come from the BOQ you already priced.

Ordered lines lock

Once a line is on an order it is marked and tracked in the BOQ. Committed cost per job and per cost centre is a number you can read, not reconstruct.

Receipts and backorders

Record what actually arrived, keep backorders visible, and match supplier invoices against the order when they land.

Orders in the books too

Send purchase orders to Xero or QuickBooks when they are placed, or let the bookkeeper enter the bill in the package against the PO and have it pulled back onto the job. An Order Reconciliation report checks every ordered PO against its BOQ lines and fixes the flags in one click.

Order status workflow

Draft. Ordered. Completed.

Every order has one of four states and moves between them only through the actions that make sense — so a committed number is a number you can trust.

Draft

Being prepared. Lines can be added and edited; the number is issued by costed from the job, cost centre and load. A draft with no lines will not send.

Ordered

Sent to the supplier (email with reply-to, PDF archived). Lines lock and are flagged as ordered in the BOQ, the commitment is raised in the ledger, and — if you choose — the PO goes to Xero or QuickBooks. Sending can be limited to owners, admins and managers.

Completed or Cancelled

Complete closes an order that is delivered and invoiced. Cancel releases the lines and the commitment and keeps the reason; a cancelled order can be reinstated as a draft. Nothing is silently deleted.

Order Reconciliation

Every ordered PO checked against its BOQ lines.

Orders brought across from a legacy system often arrive without their lines flagged as ordered, or with only the old order snapshot. The Order Reconciliation report finds every one of them, tells you what is wrong, and fixes the flags in one click — so ordered and committed figures line up.

The Order Reconciliation report in costed.app: counts of ordered POs, lines not flagged, snapshot-only and healthy orders, with a Flag button on every order that needs it
FAQ

Common questions.

Can I send a purchase order to the supplier?
Every order produces a clean PDF with your details and the delivery address, ready to send.
What about partial deliveries?
Receipt what arrived; the remainder stays visible as a backorder until it is closed out.
Who can send an order?
Anyone with a money role by default; a workspace can require owner, admin or manager approval to send, and set a per-person order limit.
Do variations flow through?
Variations are priced on the job like any other line, so orders raised against them are tracked the same way.
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