Admin Panel: Purchase Settings
Overview
The Purchase Settings in the CustomBooks™ Admin Panel allow you to customize your purchasing workflows, enable advanced inventory tracking features like Landed Cost and Item Receipts, and map default General Ledger accounts to ensure accurate financial reporting.
How to Access Purchase Settings
To configure these options, navigate to:
- Admin Panel → Purchase Settings.

Configuration Sections
Purchase Documents Settings
The top section allows you to toggle specific purchasing modules and set data entry requirements.
- Use Item Receipt: Select this checkbox if you need to receive items into your inventory. This enables the Item Receipt document workflow.
Attention: This feature cannot be disabled once an item receipt has been created.
- Copy Dropship Print Options from SO to PO: When enabled, print settings configured on a Sales Order (SO) will automatically carry over to the corresponding Purchase Order (PO) for dropship items.
- Allow Landed Cost: Activates the Landed Cost feature, allowing you to track additional costs associated with acquiring inventory (e.g., freight, insurance, customs duties).
- Require return reason for Purchase Returns: Enforces a mandatory field for return reasons on Purchase Returns, Vendor Credit Memos, and Vendor Refunds.

Default Accounts
This section maps your purchasing activities to specific General Ledger accounts. CustomBooks™ uses these defaults to automatically route financial data to the correct location in your Chart of Accounts.
Account Mappings:
- Other Current Assets: Dropship clearing.
- Accounts Payable: AP Account and Prepayment AP.
- Other Current Liabilities: Inventory paid not yet received account, Inventory received not yet paid account, and Landed Cost Clearing account.
- Cost of Goods/Services Sold: Discounts received, Inventory Purchase Variance and Purchase Returns & Vendor Credits accounts.
- Expenses: Miscellaneous Expense account.

To change a mapped account, click the pencil icon next to the account name.
Saving Your Changes
There is no "Save" button on this page. Changes made in the Purchase Settings save automatically. Whenever you modify a field, a notification popup will appear in the lower-right corner of the application confirming that your changes were successfully saved.
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