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Customers and suppliers

Save a party’s PAN or VAT number, address and contact details.

BookPana stores customers and suppliers as parties. The same party can be used for both when its role is set accordingly.

Add or edit a party

  1. Open Sales → Customers, or Purchases → Suppliers.
  2. Choose New to add a party, or open an existing name to edit it.
  3. Fill Name. Enter the party’s actual PAN / VAT No. when available.
  4. For a new address, fill Local Body & Ward No., District and Country in Address & contact, then check Contact No.. An existing party may instead show its saved Address link; open it to review the address.
  5. Open Other details for the party’s role and other fields when needed.
  6. Choose Save and confirm Yes. From an invoice, the quick-create dialog has a Save Customer or Save Supplier button on a computer, or Save on a phone.

Check before billing

Select the party on an invoice and check the PAN, address and contact information shown below its name. Correct the master record before submitting the transaction.

Use Customer Ledger or Supplier Ledger to review invoices and settlements. Do not make a second party just to fix a spelling or missing address. Ask the owner or accountant to check duplicates before entering more transactions.

In BookPana

Example screens use fictional demo data. Your records and available actions depend on your company and access.

BookPana customer details showing fictional demo records, desktop layout
Customer details in a fictional demo account
See the phone layout: Customer details
BookPana customer details showing fictional demo records, phone layout
Customer details in a fictional demo account
BookPana: customer names, PANs and outstanding balances, desktop layout
Customer names, PANs and outstanding balances
See the phone layout: Customers
BookPana: customer names, PANs and outstanding balances, phone layout
Customer names, PANs and outstanding balances
BookPana: supplier names, PANs and outstanding balances, desktop layout
Supplier names, PANs and outstanding balances
See the phone layout: Suppliers
BookPana: supplier names, PANs and outstanding balances, phone layout
Supplier names, PANs and outstanding balances