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Problems reversing a received purchase order

Written by Charnjit Singh Dharival

Users are facing issues reversing the receipt of a Purchase Order.


Potential causes are as follows:

  • Order has been marked as Complete; this can be reversed as follows:

    1. Go to Purchasing

    2. Click Change Purchase Order Status

    3. Select the order

    4. Click Release, All

  • Stock for the order has been consumed by Works or Sales Orders - The stock is no longer physically available for reversal. Potential workarounds:-

    • Reverse the transactions:

      1. Manually reverse all sales/works transactions using the stock

      2. Re-despatch/Issue them with the correct stock

      3. Reverse the order

    • Use the Reject option (in Stock) to reject other stock

  • You an then go into:

    1. Stock

    2. Select Receipts, Receive Goods on Site

    3. Enter the Purchase Order Number, Supplier and Supplier Deliver Note Reference

    4. Tick the Reverse box

    5. Then Save​​​​​​​

  • If the deliveries are linked to purchase invoices, and the purchase invoices have been posted, it is not possible to do a reverse receipt for these deliveries.

Note: You can only reverse a receipt if the goods are still in their received state. Once they have been moved or split, the direct link is broken. Using the rejection option to remove the stock linking it to the original Purchase Order fixed the issue.

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