Maintaining a reliable vendor list in Thrive is essential for organizing supplier contacts and creating purchase orders. Vendors help you track which suppliers provide which products and streamline the reordering process.
Here are the options for creating vendors:
From the Vendors page
This is the most conventional and popular route.
Go to Vendors (nested under Purchase Orders on the sidebar)
Click the "Create Vendor" button and fill in the fields to add a vendor to your list, as shown here:
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Location settings: All available locations are enabled by default. You can disable specific locations if needed. If you order products from this vendor for multiple locations, make sure all relevant locations are toggled ON.
Contact information: All contact fields are optional. Add as much or as little information as you need for your business.
Tags: Use tags to categorize vendors for easy lookup and filtering. For example, tag vendors as "Food Supplier," "Equipment," or "Local."
Create Vendors in Bulk
Using the Create Vendors Spreadsheet
The fastest way to create multiple vendors is by using the "Create Vendors" bulk upload.
If you're not familiar with bulk uploads, learn more about them here.
Creating Vendors Through Other Bulk Uploads
Pro Tip: You can also create vendors by adding a new vendor name to any bulk upload spreadsheet with an editable vendor column (such as Edit Variants or Create Products spreadsheets).
Important: Make sure the vendor name is typed exactly the same way every time. Vendor names are case-sensitive—"ABC Supply" and "abc supply" will be treated as different vendors.
From the Edit Products Page
This option is less conventional but works on the fly while creating or editing a product.
While editing or creating a product, navigate to the Vendors section. Click the "Edit" button and type in the vendor's name for a variant. Click "Return" or "Enter" on your keyboard, and the new vendor will turn GREEN. From there, click "Update" and then "Save."
The newly created vendor will now show up on the Vendors page, where you can add more vendor details, or apply it to more products.
Editing Vendors
Edit vendors by going directly to the Vendors page and clicking on the desired vendor.
To edit multiple vendors at one time, use the "Edit Vendors" bulk upload, or learn more about bulk uploads here.
Deleting Vendors
Delete Vendors by going to the Vendors page and clicking on the desired vendor. Then click the trashcan icon in the side panel. It is not currently possible to delete vendors in bulk.
Important limitations:
No bulk deletion: You cannot delete multiple vendors at once. Vendors must be deleted individually.
Historical reports: Deleted vendors are saved on past Sales Reports but not on past Inventory Reports.
Things to Note:
We do not export, sync, or receive Vendor info to/from any integration, with the exception of Shopify’s Brand/Vendor Field, which you can read more about here.
Make sure vendors are enabled at the correct locations. If a vendor supplies products to multiple locations, enable the vendor at all those locations.