Streamline Purchase Orders — Auto-fill from Catalog & Add to PO at Product Creation

Technical Q&A
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Request: Two related improvements to the Purchase Order workflow:

1. Auto-fill POs from existing product/variant data When creating a new Purchase Order, allow me to search and add existing products/variants from my catalog by vendor — automatically pulling in SKU and unit cost — so I only need to enter quantities.

2. Add to Purchase Order directly from the product creation flowAfter saving a new product, offer a prompt or shortcut to add that product’s variants directly to an open or new Purchase Order. This is especially useful when onboarding multiple new products from the same vendor in one session.

Why it matters: Both improvements eliminate redundant data entry. The SKU, cost, and vendor are already captured at product creation — there’s no reason to re-enter them manually in a separate PO workflow. For merchants managing multi-SKU vendor relationships, this would significantly reduce time-to-PO and data entry errors.

Ideal workflow:

  1. Create a new product → save

  2. Prompt: “Add to a Purchase Order?” → select existing or create new PO

  3. Variants, SKUs, and unit costs pre-populate

  4. Enter quantities and submit

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PO management is somewhat limited on Shopify at this time. You can use Pasilobus Stock Control app to do all these and they will pre-load upon selection.