Purchasing
*Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month for the whole account, then $0.50 per 10,000 reads.
What the business buys, from suppliers to paid bills. Purchase orders go out as PDFs and arrive into stock, and supplier bills carry due dates and payments, posted to the books; it shows what is owed to whom and what was spent.
In place of QuickBooks Bills, Zoho Inventory purchase orders and Odoo Purchase.
What it costs
$0.10
Emailing an order
$0.01
Every other change
$0.005 per item saved
Supplier prices
Free
Reading and reports
A call that fails
Ask your agent
Order GN pans from Nordstahl when stock runs low, and email them the order.
Record each delivery as it arrives, so the pans show up in stock at their cost.
Every Friday, list the supplier bills due next week and record the ones paid.
Tools 25
- Add or change a supplier
purchasing_save_supplierAdds a supplier or changes one: contact, email for orders, address, currency, payment terms and the book account their bills go to.$0.01 a call - List suppliers
purchasing_list_suppliersSuppliers by name, each with what is owed to them on open bills and how many orders are open.Free* - Say what a supplier sells
purchasing_save_supplier_itemsSays which Inventory items a supplier sells: their code, cost, pack size, minimum order, lead time and a fixed reorder quantity.$0.005 per item saved - List what suppliers sell
purchasing_list_supplier_itemsWhat suppliers sell: codes, costs, packs, minimums, lead times and the preferred supplier, for one supplier or one SKU.Free* - Draft reorders for low stock
purchasing_draft_reordersDrafts one purchase order per supplier for every item at or below its reorder point, counting what is already on order.$0.01 per draft order - Draft a purchase order
purchasing_create_orderDrafts a purchase order to a supplier: lines (with Inventory SKUs if you like), currency, delivery date and stock location.$0.01 a call - Change a draft order, or mark it sent
purchasing_update_orderChanges a draft order, or records it as sent without emailing it.$0.01 a call - Email a purchase order
purchasing_send_orderEmails an order to the supplier with a link to its PDF; a draft takes the next number first.$0.10 a call - Receive a delivery
purchasing_receiveRecords what arrived on a sent order; lines with a SKU come into Inventory at the ordered cost.$0.01 a call - Close or cancel an order
purchasing_close_orderCloses a sent order (stop waiting for the rest) or cancels one that received nothing.$0.01 a call - List or read purchase orders
purchasing_list_ordersPurchase orders, newest first, by status, supplier or date; or one order in full.Free* - Record a supplier bill
purchasing_create_billRecords a bill a supplier sent, from its own lines or from an order, with its PDF; it is posted to the books.$0.01 a call - Change a bill's file, notes or due date
purchasing_update_billAdds a recorded bill's PDF if it has none, or changes its notes or due date; amounts and the PDF it has never change.$0.01 a call - Record a bill payment
purchasing_pay_billRecords money paid on a bill, or money back from the supplier; it is posted to the books.$0.01 a call - Pay bills in a batch
purchasing_pay_billsPays several bills at once from one bank account, like Xero's batch payments, with the SEPA file to upload to the bank.$0.01 per bill paid - Plan when to pay a bill
purchasing_set_planned_datePlans the day the business will pay a bill, so the cash flow forecast takes the money out then rather than on the due date.Free - Record a prepayment to a supplier
purchasing_record_prepaymentRecords a deposit the business paid a supplier before their bill, like Xero's prepayments; it waits as a credit with them.$0.01 a call - Use a supplier credit
purchasing_use_creditPuts a credit with a supplier on their bill, like Xero's allocate credit, or records it coming back.$0.01 a call - List supplier credits
purchasing_list_creditsLists credits with suppliers, deposits and overpayments, with what is left on each.Free* - Repeat a bill
purchasing_save_repeating_billRecords a supplier's bill again every so many weeks, months or years, with [Month] and [Year] filled in, like Xero's repeating bills.$0.01 a call - List repeating bills
purchasing_list_repeating_billsLists the repeating bills: whose each is, how often, the next dates, and what each recorded.Free* - Stop a repeating bill
purchasing_delete_repeating_billStops a repeating bill for good; the bills it recorded stay.Free - Void a bill
purchasing_void_billVoids a bill entered by mistake; the books reverse it and its order can be billed again.$0.01 a call - List or read bills
purchasing_list_billsSupplier bills by due date, filtered by status, supplier, order or dates; or one bill in full.Free* - Run a purchasing report
purchasing_reportAged payables (what is owed to each supplier by how late) or spend (what each supplier billed and was paid).Free*
Connect your agent
Each address connects the Purchasing tools and the account tools that come with every area. Your agent can also call any tool over REST: POST https://api.conecto.chat/v1/tools/<name>.
- MCP server
https://api.conecto.chat/mcp/ purchasing - Connector for ChatGPT, Claude or Grok, one for every area
https://api.conecto.chat/v1/ mcp - OpenAPI for a custom GPT
https://api.conecto.chat/v1/ openapi/ purchasing.json - OpenAPI for Power Automate and Copilot Studio
https://api.conecto.chat/v1/ openapi/ purchasing.swagger.json
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