When viewing a third-party vendor product in inventory, there is a Statuses or APPROVAL STATUSES field. This field may be blank, or there may be a few statuses that were included at initial setup. Or you may already have custom statuses that were created during the new customer onboarding process.
Vendor Product Status Overview (Old UI)
Superusers can create custom statuses using the API. Once created, they will show up on the UI and can be applied to existing vendor products and new ones going forward.
For help with editing and creating third-party vendor product statuses, check out this video :
Approval Status Overview (New UI)
In the new UI, these fields are called “APPROVAL STATUSES” and they appear next to the vertical when you are viewing the product details in inventory.
If you wish to add custom statuses but don’t want to do it yourself via the API, you can email support@saltycloud.com to request the change.
Why Use Statuses?
You can use status fields to track where a given vendor product is in your procurement cycle. You may also have organization-specific items that you want to track with this feature.
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