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Receiving on mobile

When a delivery of materials shows up at the dock, you can receive it against its purchase order right from your phone — no walk back to the office. Mobile receiving isn't a separate screen; it's the ordinary Purchasing → Receipts flow, which reflows cleanly to phone width in your browser or the app.

Availability: Build plan and up. Receiving is part of Purchasing, which unlocks on the Build plan. See Subscriptions & Plans.

What receiving does

A receipt records that goods physically arrived against a purchase order (PO) and adds them to your inventory. You can receive a whole PO at once, or receive part of it now and the rest when the balance arrives. Each receipt is saved and visible later on the web for a full paper trail.

Receiving from your phone

  1. From your delivery, note the PO number on the packing slip.
  2. In TimberCloud, go to Purchasing → Receipts and start a new receipt against that PO.
  3. Enter how much of each line item actually arrived — the full ordered amount for a complete delivery, or a smaller count for a partial one.
  4. Post the receipt. TimberCloud adds the received quantities to your stock and updates the PO's progress.

Tip: Have the supplier's packing slip in hand and count against it before you post. Receiving what actually arrived — not what was ordered — keeps your inventory counts honest.

Full vs. partial receiving

  • Full — everything on the PO arrived; receive all the quantities and the PO is fully received.
  • Partial — only some arrived; receive what came in now. The PO stays open, and you post another receipt against it when the rest shows up. A PO can have several receipts over time.

Because the mobile flow is the same web receiving screens at phone width, the full behavior — line items, quantities, and posting — is documented once in Purchasing & Receiving. Read that page for the complete workflow.

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