Vendors

Every purchase order comes from a vendor, and most of the decisions you teach Tangerine Star — how to price, name, pack, and categorize what they send — belong to that vendor. The Vendors section is where you see your supplier network and tune each relationship.

The vendors list

The Vendors page opens on your whole supplier network. Across the top, three stats: how many Vendors you have, Recent POs in the last 30 days, and your Top Vendor Revenue. Below that:

• Needs attention — vendors with something to look at: POs awaiting action, no products yet, or no order in a while.
• Top performers — your highest-value suppliers at a glance.
• The vendor table — every vendor with its status, product count, retail value, on-hand SKUs, pending POs, and last order date. Search by name or location, or use Create Vendor to add one by hand.

Click any vendor to open its page.

The vendor page

A vendor's page is the control panel for that relationship. Beyond its address and contact details, it holds:

Rules in effect

A "Rules in effect for {vendor}" summary shows exactly how this vendor is handled right now — its resolved pricing, plus counts of any naming, packaging, category, blanket-SKU, or expansion rules scoped to it. This is the vendor-level view of your Rules hub.

Pricing follows a clear ladder, strongest first:

If recent POs have come in with prices that override the current rule, the summary flags it — so a drift between what you've set and what's actually arriving never goes unnoticed.

Accept vendor pricing

Some vendors print or supply the retail price you want to use. The Accept vendor pricing checkbox turns that on: "When enabled, a price column from vendor POs is used as the product sell price. When disabled, prices are calculated using your pricing formula."

When it's on, set the Price column — the name of the column on their PO that holds the price to use (for example, Retail Price or MSRP). Tangerine Star reads that column as the merchant price going forward.

Vendor rules

Further down, the vendor's rules are grouped and listed so you can review or remove them:

• Packaging rules — how their purchase units break into your sellable units
• Naming rules — cleanups like title case, stripping special characters, or removing their product codes
• Category rules — mapping their PO categories to your store categories
• Custom rules — anything Tory built from a plain-language instruction, shown as original → transformed

Products and history

The vendor page also lists the products you've built from this vendor and its purchase orders (upcoming and processed), with quick actions to upload a new PO, print labels, or export the vendor's catalog.