What this guide covers
Products (and some costing workflows) can reference the vendor that typically supplies an item. This supports purchase pricing, markup calculations, and clearer purchasing downstream.
Vendor field on a product
On a product detail page, set Vendor to the default supplier. When your role includes pricing visibility, you can also maintain:
- Vendor cost — what you pay the supplier
- Purchase price — your internal sell/cost basis
- Markup — optional markup rules applied from vendor cost
Services may use purchase price without a vendor when work is performed in-house.
Why link vendors to products
Linking vendors to catalog items helps your team:
- Know which supplier to use when reordering
- Keep estimate costing aligned with real vendor pricing
- Connect catalog items to vendor bills and POs conceptually (actual PO lines still use expense categories)
Client inventory transfers
When a catalog product transfers into client inventory after client approval, the inventory item can retain its link back to the original products_services record for traceability.