The Purchasing tab allows you to maintain the purchasing options for the business partner account. This tab is only available if you are working with a B2B site.
Price List: This drop-down list box indicates the price list available for use with the business partner account. This is a required field.
Allowed Payment Methods: This set of radio buttons indicates the ways in which the business partner account may pay for their order. This is a required field.
Credit Cards Only: This radio button indicates the business partner account must use a credit card to pay for their order.
Invoices Only (entry of PO# for order will be mandatory): This radio button indicates the business partner account must use an invoice to pay for their order. A purchase order number will be required for the order to be placed.
Credit Cards and Invoices (entry of PO# will be mandatory): This radio button indicates the business partner account may use either a credit card or an invoice to pay for their order. If paying with an invoice, a purchase order number will be required for the order to be placed.
Optional Entry of Purchase Order Number: This set of radio buttons indicates where purchase order numbers may be entered on an order. This is a required field.
For Order Only: This radio button indicates that purchase order numbers can only be associated with an entire order.
For Each Item in Order Only: This radio button indicates the purchase order numbers must be associated with each item in the order.
For Both Order and Each Item: This radio button indicates that purchase order numbers can be associated with each item in an order, as well as with the entire order.
Order Minimum Value: This set of radio buttons indicate whether or not orders must meet minimum purchase requirements. This is a required field.
No Minimum: This radio button indicates that there is no minimum purchase requirement for the business partner account. Orders may be placed with any total amount.
Minimum of: This radio button indicates that orders must meet a minimum purchase requirement. Orders cannot be placed until the minimum purchase amount has been reached. The minimum amount is entered in the text box following this radio button.
Free Shipping Based on Order Value: This set of radio buttons indicate whether or not free shipping is available for the business partner account. This is a required field.
No Free Shipping Based on Order Value: This radio button indicates that free shipping is never offered for this business partner account.
Minimum Order Value of: This radio button indicates that free shipping is available for the business partner account once a minimum order amount has been reached. The minimum amount is entered in the text field after this radio button.
Update Purchasing: This button saves the modifications made on this tab to the database. No modifications are saved until this button is selected.