Purchase, Supplies & Raw Material Management

Enter a supplier bill in seconds, or run the full chain — requisition, quotes, purchase order, goods receipt. Know what every item really cost, and what every dish costs to make.

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What is purchase and procurement management?

Purchase management is the record of everything your business buys — the supplier's bill, what you paid, what is still outstanding, and what landed on your shelf. Procurement is the step before it: deciding what to buy, asking suppliers to quote, comparing them, and committing to an order.

Setuverse covers the whole path, and every step is optional. A kirana store enters the distributor's bill and nothing else. A restaurant group runs requisitions, quotes and approvals before a rupee is committed. Both use the same module; neither is forced through the other's process.

It is part of the ₹2,999/year plan — not a paid add-on — and it connects to the rest of the system: purchases feed your inventory, your GST input credit, and the cost-of-goods line in your profit & loss.

Three things, one module

Buying, sourcing and the raw materials behind what you sell. Each stands on its own, and they share the same suppliers, the same catalogue and the same numbers.

Purchasing

Supplier bills, payments, what you still owe and to whom. Purchase orders and goods receipts when you want them, and debit notes when something goes back.

Supplies & procurement

Requisitions from your own team, quotation requests to several suppliers, a side-by-side comparison, and the award that becomes an order. Supplier catalogues with price history.

Raw materials

Ingredients and materials with their own units and pack sizes, recipes that say what a dish consumes, and the cost of making it worked out from what you actually paid.

Purchasing

The shortest useful path is bill, then payment — no requisition, no quote, no purchase order. That is what most shops do, and Setuverse does not make you do more.

Supplier bills

Enter what the supplier invoiced, line by line, with GST per line. Freight and duty can be added as a landed cost and spread across the lines by value or quantity, so what an item cost includes getting it to your door.

Payments and what you owe

Record part payments or the full amount against a bill. A payment can never exceed the balance due. Payables ageing shows who is waiting and how long they have waited.

Purchase orders, when you need them

Draft an order, submit it, send it. Orders under your approval threshold approve themselves — set the threshold to suit the business, so only the big commitments need a second look.

Goods receipt and three-way match

Record what actually arrived against what was ordered. Over-receipt is blocked. Converting a receipt to a bill bills the quantity received, not the quantity ordered — the order, the receipt and the bill stay tied together.

Returns and debit notes

Damaged, short-supplied or simply wrong — send it back and Setuverse produces the debit note. Stock goes back too, while what your remaining stock cost is deliberately left alone.

GST input credit

Tax on every purchase line is captured as you enter the bill, so your input credit is a report rather than a shoebox of paper at the end of the month.

The chain, end to end

Every stage is optional. Start anywhere, stop anywhere.

Requisition→Quotation request→Purchase order→Goods receipt→Supplier bill→Payment

Supplies & procurement

For anyone who buys from more than one supplier and wants to know they got the right price. This is the half of buying that happens before money is committed.

Requisitions

Someone asks for something — the kitchen needs oil, the counter needs carry bags. The request is submitted, approved or rejected, and there is a record of who asked and who agreed.

Quotation requests

Ask several suppliers to quote on the same list. Record what each came back with, compare them side by side, and award the business. The award becomes a purchase order without retyping anything.

Supplier catalogues

Link an item to the suppliers who sell it, each with their own price, pack size and code. When it is time to reorder, you already know who stocks it and what they charge.

Price history that is kept, not overwritten

When a supplier changes their price, the old one is not erased — it is superseded, with the date it stopped applying. You can see what you used to pay and argue from the record.

Supplier records

GSTIN, contact, payment terms and address in one place, shared with billing and expenses so a supplier is one record across the whole system rather than three.

Templates for what you buy every week

The same twenty items, every Monday. Save the list once and raise it again in a tap instead of building it from scratch each time.

Raw materials and recipes

You buy a 25 kg bag of rice. You sell a plate of biryani. Those are different things, and most billing software has no idea they are connected. Setuverse does.

An item catalogue for what you buy

Ingredients and materials are recorded separately from what you sell, so rice and packaging never turn up on a customer's menu or a counter screen by accident.

Units and pack sizes

Buy in bags, crates or cartons; consume in grams, millilitres or pieces. Set the pack size once and the conversion is the system's problem, not yours.

Recipes — a bill of materials

Say what one plate of biryani consumes: 500 g rice, 200 g chicken, and so on. Ask which dishes use an ingredient and get the answer — useful the day a supplier lets you down.

What a dish costs to make

The recipe multiplied by what you actually paid for each ingredient. Not an estimate you typed in once and forgot — a figure that moves when your supplier's price moves.

Ingredients that come off stock when you sell

Switch it on and selling a dish deducts its ingredients automatically, at the moment the kitchen is told to cook it. Cancel the order and the ingredients come back.

Reordering that knows what you sold

Forty biryanis went out on Saturday. The system can tell you what that ate, and therefore what to buy — instead of guessing from a shelf you glanced at.

Off until you ask for it. Automatic stock depletion and posting purchases straight to inventory are both settings, and both start switched off. Nothing about the way you work today changes until you decide it should.

Know what an item actually cost

Margin reported against a cost price somebody typed in eighteen months ago is not margin. Setuverse can keep the number honest as you buy.

Standard cost

The cost price you set by hand. Simple, predictable, and the default — nobody's reported margin moves on its own.

Weighted average

Recalculated every time goods are received, so the cost follows the market. Kept as a separate figure from the one you typed, so switching back loses nothing.

Landed cost included

Freight and duty spread across the bill's lines by value or quantity, and stored against the line. What it cost includes what it cost to get here.

Your staff run the till. They do not see what you pay your suppliers.

Purchasing, supplier prices and everything else on the spend side is owner-and-admin only. Cashiers, waiters, captains and kitchen staff can do their jobs without ever seeing your margins, your supplier rates or what the business owes. That is the default, not something you have to remember to configure.

Frequently asked questions

Purchase, supplies and raw material management in Setuverse.

Is purchase management included in the ₹2,999 plan, or is it an add-on?
It is included. Purchasing, supplies, procurement and raw materials are core features of the plan — there is no separate charge and nothing to enable before you can use them.
Do I have to raise a purchase order for every purchase?
No. The shortest path is entering the supplier bill and recording the payment — no requisition, no quotation, no purchase order. That is what most shops do. Purchase orders, goods receipts and approvals are there when a business grows into needing them.
Does buying stock update my inventory automatically?
It can, and it is a setting you turn on rather than something that happens by surprise. You also choose whether stock moves when the goods are received or when the supplier bill is entered — exactly one of the two, so nothing is ever counted twice. A purchase line updates stock only when it names a real product from your catalogue; a free-text line like "plumber" is recorded as a cost and left alone.
What is a recipe, and why would a shop need one?
A recipe records what a sellable item consumes — one plate of biryani uses 500 g of rice, 200 g of chicken. It is how the thing you buy gets connected to the thing you sell, which is what makes it possible to know what a dish costs to make and to deplete ingredients automatically when it sells. Restaurants and cloud kitchens use it most; retailers who assemble or repack also find it useful.
Will my staff be able to see what I pay my suppliers?
No. The whole spend side — purchases, supplier prices, payables and expenses — is restricted to the owner and admin accounts. Cashiers, waiters, captains and kitchen staff have no access to it at all.
Can I track what I owe each supplier?
Yes. Payments are recorded against bills, a payment can never exceed the balance due, and payables ageing shows what is outstanding and how long it has been outstanding, supplier by supplier.
How is the cost of an item calculated?
You choose. Standard costing uses the cost price you set by hand and is the default, so no existing figure changes on its own. Weighted average recalculates the cost every time goods are received. Freight and duty can be added to a bill as landed cost and spread across its lines, so the cost of an item includes getting it to you.
Can I compare quotes from different suppliers?
Yes. Send the same list to several suppliers, record what each quotes, compare them side by side and award the business. The award carries straight through to a purchase order without re-entering anything.
What happens when I return goods to a supplier?
Setuverse produces a debit note and moves the stock back. What your remaining stock is valued at is deliberately left unchanged, so sending goods back never rewrites what the rest of your inventory cost.
Does this work for a business with only one person?
Yes. Approvals are optional and an approval threshold can be set so that only larger commitments need a second look. A single-owner business can enter bills and payments and ignore the rest of the chain entirely.

Everything you buy, in the same system as everything you sell

Included in the ₹2,999/year plan, with a free month to try it. No card required, and nothing to switch on before you start.