Upload the PO
Uploading a purchase order is the front door of the whole loop. You hand Tangerine Star a vendor's PO — a PDF, a scan, a photo — and it reads every line for you. No typing product names, costs, or quantities by hand.
How to upload
Open the upload dialog
Use Upload from your documents area or a vendor's page. You can attach a purchase order, invoice, or packing slip.
Pick or confirm the vendor
Tell Tangerine Star which vendor the order is from. If it recognizes a familiar one, it'll suggest it; if a look-alike already exists, it asks rather than creating a duplicate.
Let it extract
The document is read automatically and turned into line items — each with its name, cost, and quantity pulled straight off the PO. You don't wait at the screen; extraction runs in the background and the document appears when it's ready.
What happens after extraction
Once a PO is extracted, it opens as a document you can review. Every line is laid out in a table, and Tangerine Star has already done the first pass of interpretation:
- Reorders vs. new items — each line is checked against what you've bought before. Repeats point at the product you already have; genuinely new lines are ready to become products. See Identifying reorders & duplicate UPCs.
- Prices, names, and packaging — your rules are applied so lines arrive already priced and cleaned up, ready for you to confirm.
A note on accuracy
The golden rule underneath every PO is that cost, quantity, and total always reconcile. If a line's numbers don't add up, Tangerine Star flags it rather than guessing — so what you receive into inventory matches what the order actually says.