Purchase Orders

Overview

Purchase orders manage supplier orders linked to Orders. They track what needs to be purchased from suppliers to fulfill customer orders.

Model: VentureDrake\LaravelCrm\Models\PurchaseOrder Table: {prefix}purchase_orders (default: crm_purchase_orders)

Attributes

Attribute	Type	Description
`external_id`	`string`	UUID used in URLs (auto-generated)
`purchase_order_id`	`string`	Auto-generated PO number
`reference`	`string`	External reference
`description`	`text`	Description
`currency`	`string`	Currency code
`subtotal`	`integer`	Subtotal (stored in cents)
`discount`	`integer`	Discount (stored in cents)
`tax`	`integer`	Tax (stored in cents)
`adjustments`	`integer`	Adjustments (stored in cents)
`total`	`integer`	Total (stored in cents)
`order_id`	`integer`	Related customer order
`organization_id`	`integer`	Supplier organisation
`person_id`	`integer`	Supplier contact
`user_owner_id`	`integer`	Owner user
`user_assigned_id`	`integer`	Assigned user

Note: All money fields are stored in cents.

Relationships

Method	Type	Related Model	Description
`order()`	`belongsTo`	`Order`	Related customer order
`organization()`	`belongsTo`	`Organization`	Supplier
`person()`	`belongsTo`	`Person`	Supplier contact
`purchaseOrderLines()`	`hasMany`	`PurchaseOrderLine`	Line items
`labels()`	`morphToMany`	`Label`	Labels/tags
`ownerUser()`	`belongsTo`	`User`	Owner
`assignedToUser()`	`belongsTo`	`User`	Assigned user

Line Items

Model: VentureDrake\LaravelCrm\Models\PurchaseOrderLine Table: {prefix}purchase_order_lines (default: crm_purchase_order_lines)

Reached from the purchase order via purchaseOrderLines().

Attribute	Type	Description
`external_id`	`string`	UUID
`product_id`	`integer`	The product being purchased
`product_variation_id`	`integer`	Optional product variation
`description`	`text`	Optional line description
`quantity`	`decimal(15,3)`	Quantity, to at most 3 decimal places
`price`	`integer`	Unit price (stored in cents)
`tax_rate`	`decimal`	Tax rate percentage applied to the line
`tax_amount`	`integer`	Tax on the line (stored in cents)
`amount`	`integer`	Line total (stored in cents)
`currency`	`string(3)`	Currency code
`order`	`integer`	Position of the line on the document

Note: quantity is decimal(15,3), so a purchase order line can carry 3.5 Kg or 0.25 L. The HasDecimalQuantity trait casts it, which means $line->quantity reads back as a PHP float.

Note: A soft-deleted product stays readable on the purchase orders that already reference it. PurchaseOrderLine::product() resolves withTrashed(), so the line keeps its description on the show view, in all 14 PDF templates and in the Xero sync. The product pickers query Product:: directly, so a deleted product stays out of selection lists. See Products.

PDF Generation

Purchase orders are exported as PDF documents through barryvdh/laravel-dompdf, rendered with one of the five shipped PDF Templates.

The template is resolved per record: the purchase order's own pdf_template column when set, otherwise the default chosen for purchase-order under Settings → Templates, otherwise a PDF view the host has published and customised, otherwise modern. A PDF template select on the purchase order create and edit form pins a template to the record; leaving it blank follows the Settings default.

Downloads, the emailed attachment and the portal render all resolve the same way, so all three agree.

Note: The Settings key for this document type keeps its hyphen — pdf_template_purchase-order.

Note: Purchase orders render no "From" contact block on any of the five templates. Their layouts pair a Supplier column with a Delivery details one rather than From/To, so purchase_order_contact_details resolves through the same chain as the other document types but prints nowhere. See Settings → Document contact details.

Preview

A Preview action sits beside every download button — on the purchase order show page and on index rows — rendering the real generated PDF in a slide-over with pdf.js, rather than sending you out through the browser's download tray to check a document before sending it.

Route laravel-crm.purchase-orders.preview, carrying the same can:view guard as its download twin, so preview grants nothing download did not. The viewer chunk and its pdf.js worker are imported lazily, so a user who never opens a preview downloads none of it.

Public Portal

Purchase orders have a supplier-facing portal page at /p/purchase-orders/{external_id}, so a supplier can read and respond to one without a CRM login. The page renders the purchase order's own PDF template, so what the supplier reads on screen is the document they download — see Portal.

Get link

A Get link button beside Preview, on the purchase order show page and on index rows, hands over the same 14-day signed portal URL that gets emailed to the supplier, with an optional mark as sent tick. Before 2.4.1 the only way to obtain that link was to send the purchase order.

The modal is mounted once in the layout rather than once per row, and confirm() re-resolves the record through Support\PortalLink's model whitelist and the purchase order policy rather than trusting the component's own state — a tampered payload cannot mint a link to a record the caller may not view.

Creating a Purchase Order

use VentureDrake\LaravelCrm\Models\PurchaseOrder;

$po = PurchaseOrder::create([
    'currency' => 'USD',
    'subtotal' => 5000,
    'tax' => 500,
    'total' => 5500,
    'order_id' => $order->id,
    'organization_id' => $supplier->id,
    'user_owner_id' => auth()->id(),
]);

Searching & Filtering

Searchable by reference, purchase_order_id, and associated organisation names.

Traits

Trait	Description
`SoftDeletes`	Soft delete support
`BelongsToTeams`	Multi-tenant team scoping
`HasCrmFields`	Custom field support
`SearchFilters`	Search and filter capabilities
`HasCrmActivities`	Activity timeline tracking

Reference

#Purchase Orders

#Overview

#Attributes

#Relationships

#Line Items

#PDF Generation

#Preview

#Public Portal

#Get link

#Creating a Purchase Order

#Searching & Filtering

#Traits