Inventory Location Not Visible on Purchase and Sales Invoice Lines

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Title: Inventory Location Not Visible on Purchase and Sales Invoice Lines — Feature Request

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Hello Team and Community,

We are a consulting firm based in Tanzania implementing Manager.io for a client in the building materials distribution business. The client operates two companies with 10 branch locations (godowns), purchasing directly from manufacturers and distributing to branches across the country.

We are running the latest version 26.3.17.3213 and have properly configured the following:

  • :white_check_mark: Inventory Items enabled

  • :white_check_mark: Custom Inventory Locations created (10 branches)

  • :white_check_mark: Default Inventory Location set as Main Warehouse

  • :white_check_mark: Inventory Transfers enabled and working

However we have discovered two critical limitations:

Issue 1: No Location Column on Purchase Invoice

When receiving goods from a supplier, there is no option to select which branch/godown the stock is being received into. The Columns menu on Purchase Invoice does not include a Location option at all. Stock goes into a general pool with no location assigned at the point of entry.

This forces us to do a separate Inventory Transfer after every purchase just to assign a location — which doubles the data entry work and creates room for errors.

Expected behavior: Location/Godown should be selectable on each line of a Purchase Invoice so stock is immediately assigned to the correct branch at the time of receiving.

Issue 2: No Location Column on Sales Invoice

When creating a Sales Invoice, there is no way to select or display which branch/godown the goods are being sold from. The Columns menu on Sales Invoice does not include a Location option. Only Project is available as a line-level tracking field.

This means we cannot tell from a Sales Invoice which branch made the sale or which location the stock was deducted from. This is a serious limitation for businesses operating multiple locations.

Expected behavior: Location/Godown should be selectable and visible on each line of a Sales Invoice so the system knows exactly which branch the sale originated from and deducts stock from the correct location automatically.

Business Impact

For any business operating multiple warehouses or branch locations — which is very common in African markets — these two missing features make inventory location tracking extremely difficult. We have had to advise our client to consider alternative systems like TallyPrime and ERPNext which handle both of these features natively out of the box.

We strongly believe adding Location/Godown selection on both Purchase and Sales Invoice lines would make Managerio significantly more competitive and useful for distribution, trading and manufacturing businesses worldwide.

Our Request:

  1. Add Location column on Purchase Invoice lines so stock can be received directly into a specific branch/godown

  2. Add Location column on Sales Invoice lines so sales can be tagged to a specific branch/godown and stock deducted from the correct location

  3. Allow filtering of inventory reports by location tied to specific transactions

  4. Also in exchange rate after inserting in the setting let it toautifill while posting the sale or purchases invoices and even payment and receipt

We are happy to provide further details, screenshots or test cases if needed.

Thank you for building a great product and we hope this feedback helps improve it further.

Version: 26.3.17.3213 Country: Tanzania Business Type: Building Materials Distribution

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