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This section shows you how to use Peachtree to record the key steps in the purchases cycle. You
will begin by learning how to set up vendor records in Peachtree and then how to prepare
a purchase order for your business.
Next, you will discover ways to record various types of purchases and how to
record the payments to your vendors. Finally, you will also learn how to record
a purchase return just in case you want to return items of inventory to your suppliers.
The topics covered in this section are summarized in the Key Topics list below. To view our
step-by-step instructions and screen illustrations of a particular topic, just click on
that topic link now.
Key Topics
In this topic you will learn how you can set up vendor defaults in Peachtree.
Read this topic so you can add a vendor in Peachtree and track transactions
relating to that vendor. This topic also shows you how to modify or delete vendor records
should you ever need to do this.
The purchase orders functionality allows you to record a purchase order now
but have the general ledger accounts updated at a later time when you record
the purchase invoice from the supplier. This topic demonstrates where and how to enter
purchase order information in Peachtree.
Find out how you can use Peachtree to record various types of purchases.
This topic will show you how to apply a purchase to a purchase order and how
to record credit and cash purchases using a purchase invoice.
In this topic you will learn how to record the
settlement of a payable owed to a vendor.
Purchased goods are sometimes returned to the suppliers for various reasons.
This topic shows where and how a purchase return is recorded in Peachtree.
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