Know who it came from. Send it back.
Suppliers
Tabs is supplier management for a small shop. Keep the businesses you buy from in one place, with their terms, and link each to the products they supply. Your staff can reorder without calling you for a phone number.
Goods move backwards too. A faulty delivery goes back to its supplier, and a customer brings back a shirt that doesn’t fit. Tabs records both, so neither sits in your stock pretending it can be sold.
Also in the folder
- Supplier records
- Payment terms
- Lead times
- Minimum orders
- Products by supplier
- Return to supplier
- In repair
- Customer returns
01 · Suppliers
Out of your contacts, into the shop.
Save each supplier with who you deal with there, how they expect to be paid, how long a delivery takes and the smallest order they accept. Only the name is required.
- Search by name, code, contact or email
- A minimum order in the supplier’s own currency
- Delete the ones you’ve stopped using, several at once
02 · Products
Everything you buy from one place.
Pick the supplier when you add a product. On order day, filter your products by that supplier and look at what is low. The list to send them writes itself.
- View products from a supplier’s row
- Filter the Products page by supplier
- Low stock flagged on the same list
03 · Sending back
Faulty goods, off the shelf.
Select what is going back, choose Return to supplier, pick the supplier and say why. The item stops being sellable at once, and the reason stays in its history.
- Put back on sale when it’s settled
- Send an item for repair the same way
- Counted apart on the dashboard
04 · Customer returns
When a customer brings it back.
Record the return on the order it came from. The goods go back into that store’s stock, and the order shows what you now owe the customer.
- Return some of an order or all of it
- The amount owed worked out for you
- A name on every return
Suppliers and returns, on record in four steps.
- 1
Save your suppliers
Name, contact, terms and lead time.
- 2
Link your products
Pick the supplier on each product.
- 3
Send back what’s faulty
With the supplier and the reason.
- 4
Record customer returns
On the order they came from.