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Create purchase orders for vendors

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Create purchase orders for vendors

- [Instructor] In the last video, I created an estimate for a tasting party. The customer has given me the go-ahead, so now it's time to create a purchase order to let my vendors know that I need their business. There's two things that need to be in place to make the workflow go smoothly and quickly. The first one is that the ability to create purchase orders may need to be turned on in QuickBooks. So if you don't see this purchase orders icon here on the left, click edit from the top, choose preferences, click items and inventory on the left, change to the company preferences tab, and make sure inventory and purchase orders are active is selected. Now we need to tell QuickBooks that our items and services have a preferred vendor. This way we can quickly know who we need to go to to create those purchase orders for. I'll go ahead and click items and services on the right. The first thing I need to change is my tasting…

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