Stay on top of supplier dues
Know who to pay first, before the supplier has to ask.
Suppliers remember what you owe even when you do not. Let dues build across three or four vendors and you lose track of who is waiting, who is owed the most, and which site the material even went to.
Why dues get out of hand
It usually starts small. One vendor you pay irregularly. A purchase that slips through unrecorded. Then two more sites, three more vendors, and you are managing a mental list of dues that is too long to trust.
The cost is not just the unpaid amount. It is the relationship friction: the supplier who slows the next delivery, the call you dread picking up, the negotiation that should not have been necessary.
Record each purchase, payment and site
Tie every purchase to its supplier and its site. Record a payment against the purchase it settles, not just against the vendor in general. Then the ledger shows exactly which purchases are settled and which are not — per vendor, per site.
Part payments matter here too. Recording half a settlement is better than waiting until the account is fully clear. A partial record is accurate; an absent record is not.
Paying in the right order
'Who do I pay first?' has a clear answer when every due is current: the oldest dues and the suppliers waiting longest. It is a practical question with a data answer — not a judgment call made from memory.
Siteall keeps a live amount due per vendor and surfaces the ones needing attention, so settling dues becomes a decision instead of a guess.
Supplier due habits
- 01Record every purchase on the day it arrives.
- 02Log which site the material went to.
- 03Record partial payments as they happen — do not wait until the account is fully settled.
- 04Review vendor dues before the end of each month.
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