Purchase order prefix

Purchase order prefix

Introduction

You can prefix the purchase order so you can better identify orders relating to different business units.

 

Business Unit Settings 

Head to Business Settings > Formatting. 

Under the Purchase Order Number format, you can add in a prefix ie PO{number}

Zahara Screen Shot

You can add the project/job code into the order number as well here. Click either as shown above to drop the placeholder in.

Division Prefix

You can also add a separate prefix per division as well.  You can set the division prefix in division settings. 

 
Changing the PO prefix at a division level

Recognition Consideration

Our advice is to keep it simple. Avoid a prefix of PO because the OCR engine might struggle to differentiate between an o and a 0 (zero). Use prefixes that are easy to recognise and aren’t similar to a number.

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