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CS-Cart Purchase Order

Updated 29 June 2026

CS-Cart Purchase Order simplifies the procurement process by enabling store owners to create, manage, and track purchase orders from a centralized interface.

The add-on helps businesses manage suppliers, quotations, incoming shipments, and inventory efficiently.

It can automatically generate purchase orders when product stock reaches a predefined level, ensuring timely restocking and preventing inventory shortages.

Check a brief overview of the plugin – 

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Features

  • Create and manage purchase orders directly from the CS-Cart admin panel.
  • Add and manage multiple suppliers with complete contact information.
  • Generate supplier quotations before creating purchase orders.
  • Convert approved quotations into purchase orders with a single click.
  • Automatically create purchase orders when product stock reaches the reorder level.
  • Add multiple products to a single purchase order.
  • Update purchase order status throughout the procurement process.
  • Manage incoming shipments and record received quantities.
  • Track pending, partially received, and completed purchase orders.
  • Update inventory automatically after receiving purchased products.
  • Maintain a complete purchase history for every supplier.
  • Search and filter purchase orders using various parameters.
  • Prevent stock shortages by maintaining optimal inventory levels.
  • Improve supplier management and streamline inventory procurement.

Installation

After downloading CS-Cart Purchase Order add-on, you’ll get one zip file, one install.txt file, and a relevant User Guide manual doc.

Please read it carefully for proper configuration.

Go to Manage Add-ons, and click on “Manual Installation” as shown below in the snapshot.

CS-Cart manual installation

Click on “Local” to browse the zip file, and then click on “Upload & Install” as shown below in the snapshot.

CS-Cart Purchase Order addon install

Module Configuration | Admin

To configure the module, go to the Add-Ons >> Developers >> Webkul Software Pvt Ltd>>

Purchase Order  >> Settings.
 
CS-Cart purchase order addon configuration
 
  • Procurement Method: Select the preferred procurement method for purchasing products and generating purchase orders.
  • Purchase Order Prefix: Set a custom prefix to identify purchase orders easily.
  • Purchase Order Padding Length: Define the number of digits to use when generating purchase order numbers.
  • Shipment Prefix: Specify a custom prefix for shipment IDs to simplify shipment identification and tracking.

Suppliers

To add a supplier, navigate to Orders >> Purchase Orders >> Suppliers from the CS-Cart admin panel.
 

CS-Cart create new supplier

From there, you can create and manage supplier profiles by adding their contact and business details.

Enter the supplier’s name, email address, phone number, company name, state, country, ZIP/postal code, and any other required details.

After saving the information, the supplier becomes available for creating quotations and purchase orders.

Quotation

To create a quotation, navigate to Orders >> Purchase Orders >> Quotations from the CS-Cart admin panel.

Both the admin and vendor can create quotations.

CS-Cart new quotation

Select the vendor and supplier, then add a comment.

Next, click Add Items to select the products, specify the required quantity and purchase price for each item, and save the quotation.

CS-Cart confirm quotation

Once the quotation is confirmed, you can convert it into a purchase order.

CS-Cart automatic updation

The admin can view and manage both automatically generated and manually created quotations

Shipment

After you confirm the quotation, the add-on automatically creates a shipment for the selected items.

CS-Cart incoming shipment

Once the shipment is created, open it to edit the shipment details.

CS-Cart add schedule date

After selecting the desired schedule, click Save to apply the configuration.

Next, click Partial Shipment to create a shipment for the selected items.

CS-Cart partial shipment

After entering the required comment, click Save to create the partial shipment.

Purchase Order From Product

To generate quotations automatically, the vendor must enable Quotation from the product.

CS-Cart enable purchase order from product

Once the Purchase Order feature is enabled and the product goes out of stock, the add-on automatically generates a quotation for that product.

Note: If the Purchase Order menu is not visible in the vendor panel, the admin must grant the required Purchase Order user privileges to the vendor.

Support

If you have any questions, suggestions, or customization requests, feel free to contact us at [email protected] or submit a ticket at webkul.uvdesk.com.

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Current Product Version - 1.2

Supported Framework Version - 4.18.x, 4.19.x, 4.20.x

Blog Version - 4.18.x, 4.19.x, 4.20.x
  • Version 4.18.x, 4.19.x, 4.20.x
  • Version 4.18
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