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Sending items to a Simpro purchase order - from Sparky's shopping cart

Sending items to a purchase order in Simpro from a shopping cart in Sparky

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Written by George Ruul
Updated over 2 years ago

Using Sparky's rich catalogue you can create a list of items you want to send to Simpro.

This is done by adding items to Sparky's shopping cart and selecting "Send to Simpro" from the cart.

Step 1: Search catalogue for wanted items

Step 2: Select your shopping cart

Step 3: Select "Send to Simpro"

Click on the "Send to Simpro" button and a popup window will appear asking you to select an existing purchase order or to create a new one.

The choices are:

Existing Purchase Orders

If you choose Existing Purchase Order, Sparky will reach out to Simpro and display a list of Purchase Orders to select from.

Click on the "Add" button.

Creating a New Purchase Order

Simply select "New Purchase Order" from the dropdown list.

Then click on the "Add" button and Sparky will create a new "Stock" based Purchase Order in Simpro

If the Quote or Job you selected only has 1 Cost Centre then Sparky will go ahead and add these materials item(s) to the Quote/Job.

Creating a new Job based Purchase Order

To create a new Purchase Order, in Simpro, that is for an existing Job simply select "New Job based Purchase Order from the dropdown list.

Then choose the Job you wnt to create a Purchase Order for.

Where the Job you select has only one Cost Centre then Sparky will create the new Purchase Order automatically.

Choosing which Cost centre to use

If the Job, you have selected, is made up of 2 or more Cost Centres then you will need to tell Sparky into which Cost Centre items should be inserted.

You can see how to select and assign to multiple Cost Centres by clicking here:

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