Purpose of purchase return
A purchase return is done if a delivered product from your supplier is damaged or expired. For eg: If your supplier delivers 10 items and 3 of them are damaged then you can return the product back to the supplier.
Benefits:
If you update that you received a damaged product, the Supplier gets immediate notification.
Avoid duplicate order deliveries.
Loss of money can be avoided.
What are the steps involved in the purchase return process?
On your home page go to Inventory
Click on Return Purchase.
Now on the new page displayed enter all the details that are required;
In the Location field enter the location of your restaurant at which purchase return is happening.
Supplier field can be filled with your supplier's name.
In Return option you can select if payment is done via cash/credit.
Enter your purchase return number which must be created manually
Note: It will be done while creating a purchase order itself.
Select invoice number, Quantity for return items.You can also add more items by clicking on the Add option.
After completing click Save.
To view the Purchase Return:
Go to Inventory and under Purchase Select Purchase Return.
Choose the location that you entered already.
All the items that you gave for return will be displayed.
Click on View and the invoice details will be viewed for the purchase return.
By following the above steps your supplier will get notified that you received damaged items. Then he will immediately start taking action without any delay. Also you can avoid duplicate order deliveries using this feature. It is more reliable than the other applications as it can be handled without much knowledge.